I was just watching a piece on Good Morning America about teenage pregnancy. It made me sick to my stomach.
The questions asked of ten fourteen to seventeen year old boys and girls were, at best, disgusting. Ranging from “Is it surprising to you that Governor Sarah Palin’s seventeen-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant?” to “Whose responsibility is it to remember to have safe sex?”
I had almost finished my breakfast, and suddenly I didn’t feel like eating anymore. It wasn’t that I was full, to be sure. A small corner piece of blueberry boy bait (kind of like coffeecake with blueberries) doesn’t cut it for a meal. I couldn’t even bear the thought of eating seconds, let alone finishing the couple of bites left on my plate.
The answers that these teenagers gave were rote, practiced, rehearsed. To be expected. A pack of lies fed to them by parents, teachers, authorities, and peers as they grew up in a public school, in a public world.
One seventeen-year-old girl said that “It’s something that I think teenagers are too young to know how to control.”
A fourteen-year old said “It seems like our generation has matured more sexually faster than generations previous to us.”
When asked if there were any questions that the girls wanted to ask of the boys, one spoke up right away. “Why do guys think it’s so cool to have sex with so many girls?”
And one boy replied immediately, “I think it’s part of the male dominance mindset. It’s just been that way forever.”
That’s when I left, discarding of the last of my breakfast on my plate as I walked through the kitchen. Ironically, I had just been listening to “A Few Good Men” on my iPod. You know how it goes?
What this dying world could use is a willing man of God,
Who dares to go against the grain and works without applause,
A man who’ll raise that shield of faith, protecting what is pure,
Whose love it tough and gentle, a man whose word is sure.
God doesn’t need an orator who knows just what to say.
He doesn’t need authorities to reason him away.
He doesn’t need an army to guarantee a win.
He just needs a few good men.
Men full of compassion, who laugh and love and cry.
Men who’ll face eternity and aren’t afraid to die.
Men who’ll fight for freedom and honor once again.
He just needs a few good men.
He calls the broken derelict whose life has been renewed,
He calls the one who has the strength to stand up for the truth,
Enlistment lines are open, and He wants you to come in,
He just needs a few good men.
Men full of compassion, who laugh and love and cry.
Men who’ll face eternity and aren’t afraid to die.
Men who’ll fight for freedom and honor once again.
He just needs a few good men.
I wish I knew a horde of good men. I only know a few, and know of a very few more.
Something else that absolutely infuriates me is the extreme leftist tilt of the public media’s teeter-totter of “equality.” Every one of those kids who spoke on the segment didn’t speak up for standards of abstinence, or the subject of (God forbid!) waiting for sex until marriage. A few of the teenagers weren’t shown to have spoken in the piece, but I doubt that their views were any different. I was vainly hoping for one, just one of them to speak up and echo what is in my heart and in so many others’. But even as I hoped, I knew it wouldn’t happen, because those children were handpicked from a public school that had instilled them with such untruths as to benefit ABC’s “Teenage Pregnancy” story. Ones who wouldn’t be able to plant a seed of doubt in viewers’ minds as to whether there really is a better way, a more godly way to do things, to give hope to we few who do wait.
What else is sad is that these news networks don’t even think outside the box for themselves. Every once in a great while, they’ll have something to say about abstinence or purity, Christianity or conservatism, something of the sort. I’ve never heard anything in favor of it, just the callous, offhanded remarks that safe sex is enough, abstinence is asking too much, not to mention that teaching abstinence in public schools is (GASP) almost as bad as teaching creationism! The nerve!
Maybe with Sarah Palin on the Republican’s ticket for VP…just maybe, there’ll be some change. We can only pray. God help us, we’ll just have to wait and pray – and vote.
