 debbyski says: "Conservatives touted abstinence-only education, which was a flop, when real sex education was needed, most desperately in red states. According to 2006 data from the Guttmacher Institute, those red states accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest teenage birthrates. And, a study titled “Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?” that was conducted by Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor of business at Harvard Business School and published earlier this year in the Journal of Economic Perspectives found that subscriptions to online pornography sites were “more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender roles, and sexuality” and in states where “more people agree that ‘I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage.’ ” They could avoid this hypocrisy by focusing more on what happens in their own bedrooms and avoiding the trap of judging what goes on in everyone else’s." How true your last comment rings debbyski. Exactly right. I am not sure what's worse. Condemning immoral behavior and doing it anyway or just going along with it with no objections. I think the answer would be contingent upon what one views as immoral behavior Jay. I think it is immoral for some people to try to twist the Bible into supporting discrimination against women or gays. I think it is immoral for some to follow the letter of the Bible and not it's overall liberating spirit. I think the decision to go or not to go to war is a moral choice. Choosing between authorizing more pollution or cleaning up the environment is a moral choice. I feel if religion means anything, it's that we should be able to count on our men and women of faith to make well-considered moral choices otherwise the whole religious experience is nothing more than a long-running and often tr... |
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