Why do Fundamentalists oppose preventative medical practices that make people safer?

Question

-they oppose condoms and sex ed aimed at education rather than failed abstinence programs
-they opposed drugs given to school girls to protect against cervical cancer and lower the transmission of STD's

Is it that they secretly want people to suffer for doing things they think are immoral? Does medical technology threaten to eliminate the fundie argument that disease is a "judgment" from god? Why would anyone want others to suffer by standing in the way of medical progress just to satiate a twisted religious ego/belief?

So Osborne, why should we let those evil medical professionals "force" us to vaccinate babies before they can go to school....or allow them to quarantine people exposed to TB? Taking the publics health more seriously than the idiosyncratic beliefs of a small minority - the nerve!

I say if your morality cannot accommodate scientific fact and the recommendations of medical professionals, then your "morality" is in fact immorality, and that you are either abusing/neglecting your children by sacrificing your child’s health at the alter of your wicked cult.

thanks for your ignorant assumptions CJ.

my daughter will be 1 yr old this November. your comment wasn't really worth the space and effort now was it?

RK, thanks so much for helping me prove my point. YOU are a fundie. if you think medical precaution is a "license" to have unmarried sex and therefore should not be available, you are not only a fundie, but also insane.
Newsflash: people do not need a license to screw. your choice is between your kids having sex with or without protection, not between them having unprotected sex and having NO sex. you choose.

sorry RK, it isn't your way or the highway. there are (fortunately) more logical alternatives.
i see you don't allow email. i guess you got tired of people telling you how wrong you are.

and yes, wearing a condom is a "preventative medical practice"

when your DR puts on gloves its a "preventative medical practice" isn't it? well, they are both latex and one goes on the hands the other the c0ck; whats the difference?

Answer 1

Ha... Good question. The sexual freedoms that many people are taking back go against everything the fundies believe in. And they promote *shudder* change, something fundamentalism absolutely forbids. And the more you fight change, the more inevitable it is.

Answer 2

Fundamentalists do not oppose preventative medical practices. Condoms are a license to have sex before marriage --if the couple decide to use it. I realize that a lot of parents--including the NONFUNDIES- do not talk to their kids about sex. Which is why some feel the need that there needs to be sex education but abstinence before marriage SHOULD be included in any sex education.
If I remember correctly--all the uproar about the drug to protect against cervical cancer--people were complaining that it should not be mandated by the government. It should be made available and the parents can decide. I do not remember any complaints from the so called fundamental on that. To lower the transmission STD's--abstinence. In marriage -if one partner has an STD than a condom.

The sex education & condoms is not "preventative medicine".
The cervical cancer vaccine is but the government should not mandate it

Answer 3

Some people feel they have the right to teach their own children morality. The nerve!

If you want to teach your kids about these things and vaccinate them, no problem, but you shouldn't force others. Some states are talking about not letting girls attend school unless the parents vaccinate them. Hardly fair.

You don't have to be a fundamentalist to be opposed to that.

creatrix: I'm not against the vaccine, I am against forcing it.


EDIT TO ADD: First of all, I never said medical professionals were evil, but your ridiculous rhetoric only proves that are not willing to have an intelligent open minded debate.

Secondly, diseases like TB and some of the others that we vaccinate for are highly contagious. They are not (necessarily) spread through what some would consider to be immoral, inappropriate and unecessary behaviour.

Answer 4

I do NOT stand in the way of those things..... I may not *like* the Idea, for certain reasons, but I am also knowledgeable enough to know that those things are a help in some ways..... I do not like the idea that schools are the places those things are taking place at, I think they are things the PARENTS should deal with..... but, I also know a lot of parents feel the opposite of me, thinking the government/school should deal with it....... *Sigh*...... it all boils down to a crazy mixed up world............ go in peace...... God bless

Answer 5

osborne: does protecting your daughter against the effects of a potentially unfaithful husband negate your ability to teach morality? I don't get how a cervical cancer vaccine would change anything.

Answer 6

Yes, some of them see the negative consequences as justice handed down by God or as taking responsibility for your "sin". What gets me is I uphold every person's right to live their lives by their beliefs. If someone doesn't share your beliefs though and want to use protection from stds or cervical cancer prevention what gives them the right to impose their beliefs on those who don't share them?

Answer 7

I have no idea. It makes no sense to me whatever and unfortunately it affects persons not holding the idea that said fundamentalists do. I don't believe that "judgment from god" is a viable argument for anything.

Answer 8

this debate has been going on ever since the innoculations come out. some people think it is messing with the will of God, others think it is a form of suicide (murder) if you do not prevent something preventable that could lead to death.

Answer 9

Because doing those "preventative medical practices" is like saying "it's okay for kids to have sex!"

What don't you understand about it? Seems pretty obvious.

Answer 10

Fundamentalist= bigoted, sexually repressed, illiterate, brainwashed hate-mongers.

Not my words but I thought it was so accurate.