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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/o...rital_sex.html
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05-08-2009, 01:33 AM | #2 |
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Mormon leaders aren't against polygamous relationships? News to me.
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To some extent, I guess I am a product of my social times because illegitimacy doesn't strike me as a scourge either, so I'm not sure I believe there should be such public statements. It is a bit jarring to see Bristol Palin out there advocating for teen abstinence. Do you think she will come up in YW lessons this week, and is that how you would teach the topic? |
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I haven't read the article, but I have a hard time believing that illegitimacy isn't a major social problem. How many black kids in America are raised by a single parent? 70%?
How many kids don't have a father? The LDS church, by its nature, I think is uncomfortable in social intervention in society at large, unlike some churches. |
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Jarring? Seems like she's an ideal candidate to speak on the topic.
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Except that she's flip flopped on it. Even after her child's birth she said abstinence was "unrealistic." Her parents have since gotten her to dump the boyfriend and her tune has changed. I think it's a shame for her that she's been thrown into the public limelight. That wasn't her choice. But my cynical side seems to tell me this most recent statement from her has something to do with making her mom's christian right friends happy.
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If you look at RHG's previous sentence, I don't think she's questioning the fitness of the speaker (Bristol) so much as she's questioning whether these statements are fruitful in the first place. |
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As to the talk-show circuit: do you have some inside info that Bristol is not tending her newborn?
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You think so? See, she's famous for it. And in a heroic way--look at her! She chose life! Is that what you would want to teach young Texies? How heroic do you want her to be? Or do you see her as a bad example?
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