I think that one of the things that this discussion brings to the surface is how poorly we approach providing kids with information about sexuality. In particular we are poor at communicating to kids the psychological aspects of sexual decision making. Recently I taught a class on adolescent development to an undergraduate class and it was astonishing how much of the debate about sexual education focused on the delivery of information about the physical aspects of sexuality without incorporating any information about the psychological aspects. Further so much of the education was designed in ways that spoke at and not with …
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David, I take exception to you reply to Binskins. Suffering is part of life and we need to find ways to learn from it but the types of quotes you present are too often used to encourage silent suffering. These sentiments are often used by the powerful as opiates to quell resistance and rebellion. Also having grown up Catholic I saw so much hypocracy from church leaders that I am more inclined to see hypocracy as an organizing priniciple of Christianity and not merely the isolated behavior of one Christian-in-name only. Don't get me wrong I have known good caring sincere …
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"Withholding AIDS funds from African nations unless they refuse to discuss anything but abstinence is reprehensible. We know that withholding condoms is directly and increasingly resulting in the deaths of millions, and it is part of the administration’s plan. It is therefore pre-meditated, and is murder. That does not value life. So by doing the same thing to people in this country, is it any less the same thing? With the billions spent on the “war on terror”, more Americans have been killed by contraction of STDs than by terrorist attacks. Malnutrition is rampant in our own country, and we’re going …
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Once the U.S. arrived, Trujillo was left to become the dictator of the Dominican Republic. Once the US arrived hostages were exchanged for the sale of arms to terrorists. Money was then used to support cut-throat revolutionaries no better than the government they were out to depose. Once the US arrived Juan Bosch, the democratically elected president (the first after the fall of Trujillo) was deposed and after some bloodshed the much more pro-US Balaguer was back in power (who by the way was an advisor of the bloody dictator). Once the US arrived, clandestinely, Pinochet had free reign in Chile …
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Scorp Once again you weave your fanciful tale of magnanimous America struggling to fulfill it's destiny of saving the rest of the world from itself. It's the kind of arrogance that can only be born of the type of bungling incompetence demonstrated by our current president. Listen for once. The US has a very contradictory record. Did you not think through any of the examples I listed? You talk about Chile for instance and gloss right over the fact that the US supported a ruthless dictator that "disappeared" any dissenters. Only when he stopped jumping at our command did he become …
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