by Lakita Garth helps refute Ms. Valenti. Watch the NBC video, in which Ms. Garth ably handles Valenti, with some help from Kathie Lee.

But, notice how the subtitles (always green, isn’t that annoying) promote the Valenti book at least 10 times as much as they promote the Garth book.

Valenti says she was labeled a slut in high school. That is a shame, but it is no reason to encourage my daughter and her friends to be the same.

Ms. Garth points out that only 5% of sex education focuses on abstinence. Ms. Valenti responds that most parents do not want sex education to focus solely on abstinence. Am I the only one who sees she is not paying attention to the discussion?

want women to be more like men.

And I am here to tell you that young teen girls are NOT physically or psychologically ready for sex. If it weren’t for “women” like Valenti maybe America’s daughters could just be little girls again. I know children cannot be raised in a vacuum, but teenage girls should at least understand that virginity is a very real and honorable thing.

More talk of surrender from the “1984″ , we should all conform to their values crowd.

Yes, of course, the way to educate kids about the world is not to present all the views and facts upon which they can make their own moral judgments. Promote your own parochial values above reasoned, intellectual debate and informative facts that allow personal choices to be made. What are they so afraid of? Less maladies such as abortions, STD’s and people dependent upon the government for everything from health care to welfare?

This is not a matter of anyone “pushing” their values as liberals like to opine. It is about informing children of choices and ramifications thereof. It also about moral standards and personal responsibility that have made this country great.

Oh by the way, part of that discussion is I don’t want my tax money used for procedures with which I personally disagree/ Let mom, dad and Jessica fund those misadventures.

Between virginity and promiscuity. I think one of Valenti’s points is that too often we hear the message that if a girl’s not a virgin, then she’s automatically “promiscuous” or “sexually agressive,” which is both not true and harmful. We can teach girls to be responsible about their sexuality without demonizing all girls who engage in sexual activity simply because they’ve lost their virginity.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are held up by feminists like these women as “Our founding Mothers” . In reality they both were Bible believing Christians who would have abhored the idea that rights for women translated to abortion and promiscuous sex. These are consistently ‘inconvenient truths’ for the NOW types and frankly I am sick to death of hearing them represent themselves as anyone who reflects my beliefs or values (if values has any place at all in their vocabulary).

In the recent media frenzy over what the Pope said about AIDS in Africa, one of my favorite authors for National Review, Kathryn Lopez explains a far different approach to sexuality. With regard what the Pope stated about condoms not being the answer to the widespread incidence of AIDS, A research scientist, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies agreed with the Pope :

“….the best evidence we have supports the pope’s comments. He stresses that “condoms have been proven to not be effective at the ‘level of population.”

Ms. Lopez goes on to quote the Pope:

“The solution can only come through a twofold commitment: firstly, the humanization of sexuality, in other words a spiritual and human renewal bringing a new way of behaving towards one another; and secondly, true friendship, above all with those who are suffering, a readiness — even through personal sacrifice — to be present with those who suffer. And these are the factors that help and bring visible progress.”

She ends by reminding us that sexuality is far more important to our spirituality than the ‘feminists’ of today would have our children believe:

“We need to, in other words, treat people as people. Reason with them and show them there is a better way to live, respectful of themselves and others. It’s a common-sense message that isn’t madness whether you’re in Africa or dealing with hormonal American teenagers. It’s a hard message to hear over the same-old silly debates, parodies, and dismissals. But it’s one that is based on real life—and that’s acknowledged not just in Saint Peter’s Square but in Harvard Square.”

This message would not compute with Miss Valenti or those like her. You don’t, however, have to be a Roman Catholic to understand that the Pope is right.

Many girls aren’t taught to look for stable men. This is a huge problem. They don’t even see men as providers. I think it’s one of the most damaging aspects of feminism. I know so many beautiful single mothers that are nice, sweet, good mothers but they constantly date low life men. I could never figure it out because there are certainly better men they could be with that would provide them with more stability . From discussion I saw they just don’t see men as providers.

There are two different types of thoughts going on here. If you have a teenage daughter who goes out on a date, do you want her to be liked or respected? I have nieces who are teenagers and when they are out with friends I want them to be able to freely speak up and want to be respected and not just do what others tell them to do. It also comes to the level of involvement from parents. Who says that kids are watching the commercials of Girls Gone Wild? The parents who don’t know what their kids are watching or don’t care? If you want your kids to be respectful of everything and everyone else, that starts with respect for themselves.

for whom I have any responsibilty anymore, and he’s not the horndog his older brother was. The older one was the boy mothers should have been warning their daughters about, but the daughters lined up for him, and some of the mothers too.

Unless you’ve been around the current youth culture, you have no idea how sexually active even middle school aged kids are. And the girls who in my youth could be counted on to put up at least token resistence are as likely as not to be the agressor. And, no, you’re not safe giving the babysitter a ride home; have your wife do it! You literally cannot take your eyes off adolescents or they’ll find a way. If they have a computer, put every kind of filter and bad thoughts monitor you can find on it; they’ll get around them, but it will slow them down. Better yet, put it in the den or some other public area of the house rather than their bedroom. And these days, the girls are almost as likely to watch the porno as the boys. Good luck trying to keep them from being together in a bedroom, but make it a hanging offense for a mixed group to be together behind a closed door. God knows we tried our best, but I attribute it only to luck that we got them to something resembling adulthood without a pregnancy.

I saw a story this morning with Barbie coming out with a TRAMP STAMP on her back….liberal feminists are the bane of a civilized society as they tend to be TRAMPS!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

In their desire to establish the state as all-powerful, the totalitarian left has alwsy acted to destroy the family unit. Many of the European socialist states (which is the model that most of fashionable liberals like Valenti) also wish to break up the traditional family unit of one man-one women for life.

Mostly this is achieved through the children including the followsing: claiming that the state’s claim on children supercedes that of their parents, the state consequently asserting the right to control the children’s education (hence laws that make home schooling illegal, like modern Germany), promulgation of various childrens’ rights at the cost of parental power, provoking children to challenge their parent’s values and to “think for themselves” which translates to accepting the values of the left, and finally the deliberate culitvation of a youth subculture that rejects parental involvement and disdains the goal of the youth forming families - substituting instead unrestrained sexual activity.

The result is to destroy individual personhood and replace with absorption into a state-created group identity. And families are anathema because they create loyalties which compete with the ultimate loyalty to the state that the left demands.

It is this last aspect particularly the Valenti is contributing to with her assault on the value of virginity - which involves denigrating self discipline, restraint, deferral of self-gratification, saving and investing for the future - those things that support individual identity and those same values which are the foundation for forming a family (self-denial, deferal of gratification, etc..)

As a side effect, this also creates a self-perpetuating abortion ethic (and industry) - more sex without commitment produces more unintended babies, which then need to be killed because they are inconvenient. The breakdown in behavior justifies abortion, and the easy availability of abortion makes unrestrained sexual activity less consequential.

And with the rise in sexually transmitted diseases, we will have more sterility and fewer babies, which will slow down and perhaps even reverse population growth.

We’ve got the left’s trifecta going here.

Because teenage pregnancy and STD’s are all the RAGE these days!! Woohoo!! What a shame.