Conservative Culture

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Fox reporter, Steve Brown, was reporting from the Michigan vs. Ohio State game, when some drunk woman butts into him from his left, and it looks to me like Steve pushes back. Yea, Steve! Obviously, the woman is sobriety-challenged, and when they come back from the story, Julie Banderas told Steve he’d probably just gotten his first YouTube video.==============================================
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Outside The Beltway and Andrew Sullivan have finally found their common ground. This was rather disappointing since OTB never cites the source of the quote being considered and didn’t digg for the context of the position Eric Keroack have taken on contraceptives.

“A Woman’s Concern is persuaded that the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness,” the group’s Web site says.

What OTB seems to rely on as a source for this is none other than the Washington Postt which blasts Keroack’s appointment to the Department of Health and Human Services

The appointment, which does not require Senate confirmation, was the latest provocative personnel move by the White House since Democrats won control of Congress in this month’s midterm elections. President Bush last week pushed the Senate to confirm John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations and this week renominated six candidates for appellate court judgeships who have previously been blocked by lawmakers.

The real crime is that Keroack has worked for a Christian Pregnancy Counseling organization called A Woman’s Concern. What OTB has done is to assume that they are against any contraceptives for anyone. Reading from the website the group attacks the position that ’safer’ sex between unwed monogamous couples isn’t safe.

Q: How safe is “safe sex”?
A: Few professionals are using the phrase “safe sex” anymore; most have switched to saying “safer sex” because condoms do not provide 100% protection. If they are used correctly and consistently (every time any sexual contact occurs), condoms can reduce the risk of transmitting most STDs, but they work differently against different STDs. They are most effective against HIV but much less effective against other infections, especially STDs that are spread by skin-to-skin contact, like Herpes. For those, the infected area is often not covered by a condom, which means the condom is doing nothing to prevent transmission of that STD. The only way to completely avoid risk of STDs is to wait to be involved in sexual activity until you are in a faithful, lifelong relationship (like marriage) with an uninfected partner.

What is demeaning is to separate sex to a mere act outside of love and commitment. Where is the love when a society promotes behavior that is inherently dangerous while giving the illusion that they are safe?

Will condoms prevent HIV infection, the virus that causes AIDS? While it is better than nothing, the bottom line is that condoms cannot be trusted. A study from Florida looked at couples where one individual was HIV positive and the other was negative. They used condoms as protection during intercourse. Obviously these couples would be highly motivated to use the condoms properly, yet after 18 months, 17% of the previously uninfected partners were now HIV positive. That is a one-in-six chance, the same as in Russian roulette. Not good odds!

Considering that STD numbers are difficult because many go undetected the numbers at an early age are disturbing.

* Almost half of all students in grades nine through twelve have had sex.