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Your thoughts: Nurseries in High Schools

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Gina B, Feb 22, 2011.

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  1. Bro. Curtis

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    My feeling is if we are going to provide these services, they need to be self-supporting. No teachers, or any other resource should be held back from any other student. The mother, and those who wish to provide thise service, must make ALL the sacrifices.
     
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    " Data from a telephone survey of key individuals at school condom programs across the United States suggest that as of January 1995, at least 431 public schools in 50 U.S. school districts made condoms available"

    It has to start somewhere.

    Actually my point is that by accomodating unwed mothers - they are in fact condoning the illicit behavior - and reducing the social stigma associated with it.

    Not much different than the parent that says, "Don't have sex, but if you do make sure it is safe."

    The end message to the kid is that it really is ok.
     
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    As of 2001, there were 26,407 public secondary schools and 10,693 private secondary schools in the U.S.

    That would be 431 public schools out of 26,407 public schools that distribute condoms. That's 1.6%

    That means 98.4% of America's public high schools are NOT passing out condoms. As I said, it's the liberal outliers.

    I wish those 431 weren't. But I can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I have to support those public schools who don't pass them and who teach reproductive education in it's proper venue and who offer abstinence courses.
     
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    Yeah, and I'd hate to accidentally stand too close to the edge of a cliff, fall, catch a branch on my way down and have only *you* there to rescure me, too...

    By *not* providing *any* assistance or services what you are really saying is that, you've made a mistake, the church is done with you, go see Planned Parenthood!

    And, in so doing abdicating *any* voice we might have had available to counter the pro-murder crowd...

    Mic 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
     
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    Ummmm... we are talking about public schools - not churches. :rolleyes:
     
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    Ban condoms and abortions. Every one of the additional bastard kids will be on welfare for 18 years. You don't mind being taxed for kids on welfare, right? You all going to run out and adopt black babies, right?
     
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    Holy Cow! Is this kind of mindset allowed in this board?
     
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    Mindsets aren't controlled by outside forces. I personally dislike your mindset on some topics, Mandy, but you are a unique person and you have the right to think as you do, regardless of my opinion. I don't like the way billwald expressed himself in that last post, but in no way do I wish to ban him from being honest about what he thinks. Honesty is preferable over lies. It would help nothing to "disallow his mindset" or anyone else's unless they aren't Baptist and thus don't belong on this board, as it is for Baptists. Even weird Baptists.
     
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    The mindset that would allow that type of language or things to be expressed in such a crude way. And I never suggested or implied anyone should be banned. be careful not to read into someone's post. Maybe you should ask for clarification before assuming.
     
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    I understand the sentiment, but the language used on this board rarely is not anything that isn't found in the King James Version of the Bible. I love using that version but do cringe at times when reading some of the words used and some of the ideas expressed and at my children reading them. So I've had to open up somewhat at what I let my kids read in library books and such because how can I defend the mindset of not reading about such things (provided they aren't being glorified) if I allow them to read the Bible?
     
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    PS Mandy: I said I wouldn't want to "ban him from being honest about what he thinks." That in no means implied YOU wanted him banned from this board.
     
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    Please forgive me for my assumption. I should have done what I suggested you to do.
     
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    Done. And please forgive me for not treating you like a sister in Christ as should be done.
     
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    Hehe, My name is not mandy although I can see how that would be understood that way. And I am a guy.
     
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    Is this what offended you all?

    bas·tard   
    [bas-terd] Show IPA
    –noun
    1.
    a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
    2.
    Slang .
    a.
    a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car.
    b.
    a person, especially a man: The poor bastard broke his leg.
    3.
    something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
    4.
    bastard culverin.
    –adjective
    5.
    illegitimate in birth.
    6.
    spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic.
    7.
    of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany.
    8.
    having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds.
    9.
    Printing . (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found.
    Use bastard in a Sentence
    Origin:
    1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French bastard, Medieval Latin bastardus (from 11th century), perhaps < Germanic (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed variant of *bōst- marriage + Old French -ard -ard, taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church; compare Old Frisian bost marriage < Germanic *bandstu-, a noun derivative of Indo-European *bhendh- bind; the traditional explanation of Old French bastard as derivative of fils de bast “child of a packsaddle” is doubtful on chronological and geographical grounds

    —Synonyms
    6. fake, imitation, imperfect, sham, irregular, phony.

    Dictionary.com Unabridged
     
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    High school nurseries? I think they're a great way for we pro-lifers to put our faith into action and help mentor some young women. Rather than our taxes paying for such, I'd like to see church groups volunteer for programs like this!
     
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    That is a great idea, but state regulations and concerns about keeping things tax free would more likely scare any church out of taking on such a mission.
     
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