Where's the Outrage?
Published on June 21, 2008 By KFC Kickin For Christ In Current Events

Many emotions came rushing to the surface when I read a particular article this morning.  I was mad, as in very angry, sad as in very grieved, disappointed as in I was hoping our young people knew better than this and outraged, as in livid, because the adults knew what was going on, at least to some degree.   

What did I read? 

In Gloucester, MA a group of teenage girls all under the age of 16 made a pact to get pregnant.  And they did.

Right now in Gloucester High School there are 17 girls pregnant on purpose.  Normally the average total of pregnancies each year for this particular high school hits about four. 

These girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.  What?  Where are the parents? 

What about the school clinic?  They must have known because, the girls, according to the principal, were repeatedly making visits to the teen clinic taking multiple pregnancy tests.  He even said these girls would get  visibly upset when the results came back negative.  When they came up positive eventually there were high fives given out and plans for baby showers. 

Hello?  The clinic knew this and kept giving out these tests with no counseling?  Why?  Parents should be outaged!  I'm outraged and I'm not even one of these parents. 

One of the fathers is a 24 year old homeless man.

This just came out in Time Magazine but was first reported in the Gloucester Daily Times.  According to the Principal, Joe Sullivan, he said these particular girls lacked self-esteem and have a lack of love in their lives.  All the more reason for the teen clinic to take notice.  Don't ya think? 

All the more proof to show that the Planned Parenthood behind all this is nothing more than a business.  This meant more business for the clinic.  They keep track of the business very well.  They know the bottom line in each of these clinics. 

A Christian clinic would NEVER have closed their eyes to such a pact.  Because their goal is to try to keep kids from  having sex, counseling would have been foremost on their mind when that first girl came in for a test. 

So now we have,  just in this one high school,  17 pregnant girls with no thought of the consequences.  But what should we expect?    Isn't that what we're teaching them?  Holloywood glorifies sex outside of marriage and we mock those who dare to admit they believe in abstinence.   

So we reward stupid behavior and we punish those who do right. 

So much for sex education.  These girls knew right where to go when they wanted encouragement getting pregnant.  The adults passing out those tests did nothing to discourage them.  Perhaps they thought they'd be back later to get their abortions.  Follow the money trail. 

Shame on them! 

 

 

 

 


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on Jun 27, 2008
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The pact was a LIE and you all fell for it, hook, line, and sinker!

The principal is full of bullshit, it seems.

And Lula: that 'review' of Juno was amazingly wrong. The person who wrote it obviously went in to the movie experience with a perverted slant, looking for a witch to hunt, and fabricated one with trite 'evidence' pulled from the film.

Best film of 2007. Hands down.
on Jun 27, 2008
For example, in the Juno review, the biggest pile of hokey that stuck out to me was:

Toward the end, Juno asks if it is "possible for two people to stay happy forever." The movie's obvious answer is no; not Vanessa and Mark, not Juno's father who is married to a woman not Juno's mother, and not any reason to hope that Juno would ever stay married to a good husband.


GUESS WHAT? The father explains that, while it may not have happened with Juno's mom, it's happened with his current wife, who he loves and wants to stay with no matter what. Excuse him for making a mistake the first time around, one he's rectified and now he's on the right track to happiness.

And that's what he explains to his daughter in that (touching, mind you) scene. That people can stay happy together forever. It's just a matter of finding the right person.

Just a small error in the fabricated, blown-out-of-context retardfest that is the Eagle Forum. The fact that you'd even post an article from that ridiculous, fascist, freedom-hating fearmongering group invalidates you even further in my eyes.
on Jun 27, 2008

A Christian clinic would NEVER have closed their eyes to such a pact. Because their goal is to try to keep kids from having sex, counseling would have been foremost on their mind when that first girl came in for a test.
  So anytime a girl comes into a Christian clinic they would ask her whether she made a pact with other girls to have babies together?  I would think that you would be happy that they chose to carry their pregnancies to term. 

Oh and Lula, the review of Juno was extremely biased.  It just goes to show you how much our own biases taint our perceptions.  In the movie Juno's mother abandoned her family.  I hate the way they try to portray every divorce as a failure of both spouses.  The fact is no matter how much you want an intact family for your kids, you can't make someone stay married that doesn't want to be there.  One person can break the deal, that doesn't mean that the other spouse didn't value marriage. 

As far as the adoptive couple in the movie, the husband basically decides he has missed out and wants to be free and young again.  He doesn't want the responsibility of the family.  I never got the impression that the wife decided he was irrelevent. 

on Jun 27, 2008
The mayor has come out and said the pact is "alleged" and there is going to be an upcoming meeting of city leaders to discuss the reason why this group of girls, almost all sophomores, decided to get pregnant all at the same time. The principal is not invited.
So what is the story behind the story? Hmmmm time will tell.


The pact was a LIE and you all fell for it, hook, line, and sinker!

The principal is full of bullshit, it seems.


Why do you say so?

According to the link you provided (from AP news), the principal defended his comments saying, "I believe everything I told (Time) was and is accurate,". He also wanted to dispel the idea that his memory was foggy. So what if he was the first one to come up with the pact idea or not? Why is who said what about "the pact"-- the all important part of this wretched story?

Why all the fuss whether it was a "pre-pregnancy pact" or a "post-pregnancy pact" or if it was even "a pact" at all?

16 girls are pregnant! THAT THESE GIRLS ARE PREGNANT IS THE PROBLEM, Houston....for them, their baby, the baby's father, the parents and families, the school community and the greater community, society and the whole world who's apparently "looking in".

Ya, that's right, they are all looking in and realizing that we've got a culture that says "ho, hum, yawn" when 16 (or 17?) high school girls get pregnant (pact or not)! We've got a permissive culture that promotes schools as resource centers over learning centers. This school has permissive sex instruction, doles out birth control from it's own in house clinic, and then when sex instruction works and girls become pregnant and don't want an abortion to take care of their "mistake", then a school nursery comes in very handy indeed.

on Jun 27, 2008
Cedarbird, SanChonino and Locamama,

I didn't see JUNO, but my 22 year old daughter did. She saw the radical feminist side but described it differently from that of Eagle-Forum. She thought JUNO glamorized teen pregnancy and said there was nothing comedic about it at all.


GUESS WHAT? The father explains that, while it may not have happened with Juno's mom, it's happened with his current wife, who he loves and wants to stay with no matter what. Excuse him for making a mistake the first time around, one he's rectified and now he's on the right track to happiness.


In the end, didn't his own grandchild end up fatherless?

I wonder how many of these girls come from traditional once married mom and pop homes? How many are fatherless themselves?







on Jun 28, 2008

I have a hard time thinking that the whole problem lies at the feet of sex-education.

More likely (but since there are so few details about the people involved) it has far more to do with emotions, and a desire to feel connected and a bunch of other social issues that sex education can't possibly address.

I'm not sure how sex-education in the U.S. works.  It's probably extremely diverse from location to location.

As far as I'm concerned, sex-education should cover how one's body works, the vectors of STD's and the consequences of having sex (positive and negative). Dispel the myths that teenagers have about sex.  I think that is really important. I do think that parents have a huge responsibility to teach their children about these issues but most people don't have a lot of the information about how the body works, statistics etc.  

I honestly think that the whole morality aspect belongs in a completely different class. This is also the area where I think parents can really shine when talking about issues involving sex. One doesn't need a lot of knowledge about biology etc to have this discussion.  I also believe this kind of discussion in a family can really demystify the whole aura of sex.

Teenagers are going to talk about sex. Honestly, if they can't get the real facts, they are just going to promote they myths they believe or are floating around at the time.  In fact, I think sex-ed gives the parent a perfect opening to discuss things with their child.  Discussing what was covered in school can also give parents a chance to talk about their opinions or moral views and how it relates to what is going on in the place where they live.

Nothing is perfect, especially when it comes to topics that make people feel awkward. Maybe my views here are too idealistic.

 

Also, the person who did the Juno review must have done it without hearing the dialogue.

 

 

 

on Jun 28, 2008
I didn't see JUNO, but my 22 year old daughter did. She saw the radical feminist side but described it differently from that of Eagle-Forum. She thought JUNO glamorized teen pregnancy and said there was nothing comedic about it at all.


Well, it sounds like your daughter might be a crazy prude, too.

Also, the person who did the Juno review must have done it without hearing the dialogue.




Amen.
on Jun 28, 2008
AD POSTS:
Lula, do you really think that sex ed is the blame for this?

If so, how do you figure?


Yes, permissive contraceptive sex ed most definitely figures in and must be held at least in part to blame.
I've got lots going on in the home front, so I'll get back with my thoughts on this as soon as I can.




on Jun 28, 2008
AD POSTS:
You are misleading in insinuating that Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a business and don't offer any kind of counseling. Sadly, I know several people that have had abortions with PP. Every single one has stated that PP DID offer counseling before proceeding through the abortion.


Planned Parenthood isn't the problem here nor are they any solution either. They are merely dealing with the symptom/result from a more deeper issue. I find no fault in them.


Lula, do you really think that sex ed is the blame for this?

If so, how do you figure?



If you go back in history, you'll find that Radical Feminism, Planned Parenthood and permissive sex ed are all intertwined in the same ball of yarn...you can't have one without the other.

In the US, Radical Feminism came into full bloom as a result of the cultural and sexual revolution of the 1960s...about the same time the birth control pill was being disseminated far and wide throughout the land....and the US Supreme Court ousted prayer from all public schools.

SIECUS stands for "Sex Information and Education Council of the US". SIECUS was founded in 1964 by Lester Kirkendall, a leader of Planned Parenthood and signatory of the Humanist Manifesto document. SIECUS guidelines are a full implementation on the concepts of human sexuality set forth in Humanist Manifesto II and the very foundation of most government education.

When developing the sex ed curriculum, one of the demands of the SIECUS policy makers was that a new, more open, "value-free" attitude toward sexuality morality be instilled in the minds of youth...but there was a bit of a problem to overcome. In order to be successful, they knew that the old-fashioned, repressive moralistic values especially of those acquired at home or Church must be questioned and weaned. It was decided that the first step in classroom sex ed was to undermine the authority of this morality and marginalize the virtue of chastity. The principles of Secular Humanism as outlined in the 2nd Humanist Manifesto were to be applied in the sex-ed curriculum using the apparatus called "values clarification" and "situational ethics".

It wasn't long before a bias toward secular humanism developed within the broad structure of education. Planned Parenthood and SIECUS saw the necessity and the advantages of institutionalizing classroom sex instruction and with the support of allies like the National Education Association, (NEA), educators who had been persuaded to employ permissive sex-ed teaching, have been steadily indoctrinating Kindergarten through 12th grade students into believing that they can make up their own mind about who and when to practice sex as long as its consensual and practiced "safely".

Humanistic educators believe the proper role for schools is to change, create, or clarify student's values and since God was reduced to irrelevant, the only absolute truth is that there are no absolute values. Values clarification and situational ethics teach them to discard their old values they come to school with and find and try new ones. educators, by making human sexuality thematic and public, strip the sexual act of its natural, intimate, and sacred nature. The result: these school kids can't read so well or perform math skills, but they sure know alot about putting on condoms and taking birth control pills or not. As these 16 high school girls have shown, their understanding of human sexuality has all the moral equivalency of going to the bathroom.

We've seen without doubt that permissive contraceptive sex instruction is a school's way of endorsing the lowest standards and encouraging inappropriate sexual behavior. Families should be appalled, but they aren't. Why? Becasue they are part of the culture that accepts contraception as well as abortion, divorce, and single motherhood.

We've completely lost the sacred sense of sexuality and that's why the human person and relationships are so devalued.

It's time, no passed time, that the adults in this world grasp the fact that sexual activity is 100% inappropriate for children. It should never be approved or condoned, let alone enabled as classroom sex instruction so aptly does.

When adults ignore the moral dimension of sexually active children, we deprive them of what they need to become integrated loving persons.










on Jun 28, 2008
Also, the person who did the Juno review must have done it without hearing the dialogue.


I saw it, with the sound on, and I thought it was HILARIOUS!

"All babies want to be borned!"

"Whoa! Dream big!"

But that's a story for another day. We're digressing. Again. Sorry.


As far as sex education is concerned, where I live they ONLY teach abstinence. That's it. And yet...girls still get pregnant. Kids are going to have sex whether or not people tell them what to do. It's nobody's choice but the involved parties. Maybe if the girls I knew were taught some birth control they wouldn't have a bun in the oven now.
on Jun 28, 2008
Cedarbird,
I get it...you really like JUNO!   

Kids are going to have sex whether or not people tell them what to do.


I disagree.

Although I realize this is what government schools and the libertines are telling everyone...that kids can't control themselves...they are going to do it anyway...that sex is just another activity that even middle schoolers may engage in. Get used to it....that's the way it is ...just do it 'safely'...give em' the pill or condoms...ready, set go...blah, blah, blah. But oh wait, why are they depressed, committing suicide, aborting, contracting STDs, or having the baby because it's the chic thing to do especially with the school nursery.

Those who think this way are selling our kids short and allowing this low standard for children is a disgrace...especially when self control is not only desirable but also attainable.

Sure it requires family love and responsibility as well as thought, pride in oneself, prudence and courage when faced with trying social situations.

on Jun 29, 2008
I wonder where this fanciful imaginary land that the 'abstinence-only' people live in where people didn't have sex before the '60s came from.

Because it's certainly not historically accurate.

But whatevs.
on Jun 29, 2008
I wonder where this fanciful imaginary land that the 'abstinence-only' people live in where people didn't have sex before the '60s came from.Because it's certainly not historically accurate.But whatevs.


Of course they didn't! Everyone knows there were no bastards prior to the late 20th century.
on Jun 29, 2008
Actually teenage pregnancy rates are at a thirty year low. This spike in this little town is an aberration.
on Jun 29, 2008
.that kids can't control themselves...they are going to do it anyway...that sex is just another activity that even middle schoolers may engage in. Get used to it....that's the way it is ...just do it 'safely'...give em' the pill or condoms...ready, set go...blah, blah, blah. But oh wait, why are they depressed, committing suicide, aborting, contracting STDs, or having the baby because it's the chic thing to do especially with the school nursery.


It's not that they can't control themselves. They choose to. It sounds like YOU are the one saying that kids have no free will. That they are just mindless automatons that will do whatever they are told and if teachers tell them not to have sex then they won't.

No matter what people say, kids are rebellious, and they HAVE MINDS OF THEIR OWN. THE KIDS, not the programs, dictate whether or not they have pre-marital sex.

Give them credit. Some choose not to. Some choose to do it. It's a free will thing, heaven forbid.
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