Aids or Purity?

Question

What is cooler, increasing the aids risk or keeping sex within Marraige?

"US President George W Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids has said the world is losing the battle against the virus" BBC News.

This comes out weeks after our Trashy Educational System backed up by the courts has outlawed a young girls right to ware a "purity ring"...she spoke of her "disappointment" after the High Court ruled yesterday she had no legal right to wear a "purity ring" to school as an expression of her belief in Christian values." The Independant

I think the legal system has used the press to publish it's Godless values abroad!

http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2776163.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6911736.stm

Timothy S. >
Let me call your bluff! Our bas%ard school system is under pressure to undermine the ethics of Marriage, whilst an accurate and full education on the so called merits of safe sex and how HIV is transmitted have been taught everywhere: this has not helped stop the spread of AIDS.

Reality Check?
Here it is...condoms are sold everywhere and even given out freelyin some instances, but people either cant be bothered to use them or they just dont stop the spread of aids.

Answer 1

i take anything a bush adviser sez with a HUGE grain of salt...remember 'slam dunk?'
i read that story on-line about the court decision, and was very disappointed...i cannot, for the life of me, see the problem with a girl wearing a 'purity ring', especially in light of the 'hey, i'm just a brainless ho, use me and abuse me' clothing that young girls are allowed to wear to school...but i guess advertising the availability for random sex is protected expression or something
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that being said, i don't think that aids or purity are the only two choices-i know which choice i want my kids to make, but i'm not THAT naive, and i still remember my own youth-i fully expect them to have the best possible information regarding birth control and prevention of STD's and other li'l nasties...abstinence IS the most effective method of preventing the above, but 'abstinence-only' sex education has proven to be a failure...i know how to 'bring up' my kids properly...i just wish others would do the same

Answer 2

Increasing the aids risk.

Seriously though, monogamy, within or not within the confines of marriage reduces but does not get rid of the risk of HIV transmission.

However, monogamy is not for everyone. Different people have different sex drives. Some need several partners. Some want to start having sex at the age of 15. Some have break ups and then move on to another partner. It is important to teach people the value of monogamy, but it is also important to teach them about safe sex.

And prostitutes will tell you how many 'happily married men' they screw for money. Marriage does not mean that you are at no risk.

(Just one last thing, when the bible taught that sex should be within marriage, people got married at ages of 14. People get married later now. Unless you want to legalise child brides, you will have to accept the world has changed and that people are going to have sex and not be married.)

Answer 3

That's like asking which is better -- botulism or baseball?

Monogamy creates the same risk of AIDS or STD transfer whether you get a marriage license or not.

And marriage has nothing to do whatsoever with disease transfer, because someone who has AIDS -- such as through drug use or tainted blood transfusion -- can transfer that disease to a spouse just as easily as anyone else.

And given how many so-called 'defenders of marriage' commit adultery -- it's pretty obvious that marriage is not the same as monogamy.

Please stop trying to enforce your personal religious beliefs on everyone else as a matter of law. We don't follow your religion, and we don't want to.

As far as the ring -- you're misrepresenting the court holding. The court held that the "no jewelry" policy of the school applied regardless of whether the ring was for religious reasons, or personal reasons, or merely cosmetic. The court didn't single out the purity ring for special treatment.

Answer 4

A purity ring will not prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS it is not a chastity belt! Refusing her permission to wear it should in no way undermine her christian beliefs nor her commitment to chastity before marriage.

Wearing a condom would better prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, have the education system banned the wearing of those?? I don't think so!

Answer 5

Accurate and full education on the merits of safe sex and how HIV is transmitted will help stop the spread of AIDS. Marriage will not.

Answer 6

she should have the right to express herself within reason, in that same vein though I think christian hipocracy would rear it's ugly head if a Wiccan were to wear wiccan jewlery. I think monogomy is important, but in lieu of that, safety should be practiced. It's the suppression of our animal instincts (food, sex, safety) that bring out our reckless behaviors.

Answer 7

That's interesting, because wearing a purity does not mean you are Christian, merely holding the belief against pre-marital sex.

What's next? Girls can't wear skirts below their knees because it shows they have moral values?

Answer 8

How about educating people on safe sex practices instead of misleading them so they conform to you're personal moral values?

Answer 9

Sex in marraige is a lot cooler. but I wouldn't expect to be recognized for it.

Answer 10

What "god"?

You thumpers are so caught up in trying to run other people's lives you've become nothing but hypocrites.

Abstinence as the sole education of sexual awareness is just stupid.

You people need a serious reality check.