Paul Chappell, founder and president of West Coast Baptist College and pastor of Lancaster Baptist Church, went after women for their lack of purity, modesty, and lust for premarital sex.
Yes, Chappell is nuttier than a walnut grove. However, the presenter is over the top in practically insisting that the differential in teen birthrates is due the the different approach to sex education, i.e., abstinence only in MS versus a more comprehensive approach in NH.
I would suggest that thee following factors also weigh heavily in the disparity.
Literacy Rates MS is 49th NH is 8th
Black Population MS 37.3% NH 1.22%
Median Income MS $36,919 (50th) NH $62,647 (6th)
Healthiest State MS& LA tied at 49th NH 3rd
The problem that I have in this video is that people just want the sugary sweet stuff of religion (particularly Christianity, which Ana focuses on with this pastor), but they don’t want the full meal that the religion also comes with, like being morally responsible for yourself. I do have problems when religion focuses too much on one thing or the other and does not properly incorporate a healthy balance between the two, like the Joel Osteens that tell you God wants to bless your socks off or the Bryan Fischers that tell you to repent or you’re going to hell. Unfortunately, not many people really want their Jesus to be anything but a reflection of their own personal ideals, and end up forgetting that the Jesus that told the people who wanted to stone the woman accused of adultery, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,” is also the same same Jesus who told the woman, “Go and sin no more.”
There’s a contradiction in the right wing discussion:
* Pushing abstinence only leads to more children being brought into the world
without the ability to support he/her. Birth control reduces this possibility.
* No knowledge of the real world … folks of all ages are going to have sex so
the question is how to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
* Birth control as part of ACA REDUCES costs associated with unintended
prenancies.
* Why is Viagra/Cialis freely available, but birth control methods are met with
enormous constraints.
Does this really make sense?
No really! The real goal is to CONTROL women. Men seems to be absovled of
any responsibilities in this matter besides making decisions for women.
I have an idea: stay out of people’s bedrooms and let those decisions be made among the women and their doctors.
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Yes, Chappell is nuttier than a walnut grove. However, the presenter is over the top in practically insisting that the differential in teen birthrates is due the the different approach to sex education, i.e., abstinence only in MS versus a more comprehensive approach in NH.
I would suggest that thee following factors also weigh heavily in the disparity.
Literacy Rates MS is 49th NH is 8th
Black Population MS 37.3% NH 1.22%
Median Income MS $36,919 (50th) NH $62,647 (6th)
Healthiest State MS& LA tied at 49th NH 3rd
The problem that I have in this video is that people just want the sugary sweet stuff of religion (particularly Christianity, which Ana focuses on with this pastor), but they don’t want the full meal that the religion also comes with, like being morally responsible for yourself. I do have problems when religion focuses too much on one thing or the other and does not properly incorporate a healthy balance between the two, like the Joel Osteens that tell you God wants to bless your socks off or the Bryan Fischers that tell you to repent or you’re going to hell. Unfortunately, not many people really want their Jesus to be anything but a reflection of their own personal ideals, and end up forgetting that the Jesus that told the people who wanted to stone the woman accused of adultery, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,” is also the same same Jesus who told the woman, “Go and sin no more.”
There’s a contradiction in the right wing discussion:
* Pushing abstinence only leads to more children being brought into the world
without the ability to support he/her. Birth control reduces this possibility.
* No knowledge of the real world … folks of all ages are going to have sex so
the question is how to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
* Birth control as part of ACA REDUCES costs associated with unintended
prenancies.
* Why is Viagra/Cialis freely available, but birth control methods are met with
enormous constraints.
Does this really make sense?
No really! The real goal is to CONTROL women. Men seems to be absovled of
any responsibilities in this matter besides making decisions for women.
I have an idea: stay out of people’s bedrooms and let those decisions be made among the women and their doctors.
I am surprised there are any women in his congregation.