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In Washington this week there is a great debate over the free condom distribution.
The right wing has argued that this is promoting sex among minors and others.
I cannot express how ridiculous that is to me.
It is like telling people that Volvo is promoting poor driving by offering airbag in their cars.
Does anyone on the right in America have any sense of public good or the welfare of all citizens? Even at Christmas time?
Unwanted pregnancy, Aids, and many other sexually transmitted diseases …. Are we a nation of Ostriches?
Thanks for listening,
Kevin
:-/
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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HUGS!, Kevin! :):)
A well-written piece, that appeals to the common sense in each and every one of us. (?)
Take care!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I personally do not understand what the fuss is about.
By the same logic, anything that is made to make things safer promotes what some call as ill... Maybe the people who did that might need to get laid.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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Registered: January 1970
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It's stupid not to make them available at every possible place. They prevent pregnancy and STDs. There should never be time when some kid says "Oh dang! I don't have a condom. Oh well, one time won't hurt." One time can ruin lives. Great thoughts, Kev.
{{hugs}} J
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Yes... Very keen observation.
My best friend lost his life-long friend because of that 1 mistake.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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There are many terrific examples of the public policy of free condom distribution making all the difference in entire countries. But that concrete fact never makes a difference to idiots like these.
Thailand is a good example. In the early 1990's, projections of the exploding percentages of Thai's with HIV predicted that more than 10% of the population would get AIDS. In a country the size of the US, that would mean around 30 million cases instead of the present number of around 1 million...what a nightmare that would be!
Thailand is a comparatively poor country, and doesn't have that many millions of hospital beds or doctors, etc. that would have even mande a dent in treatment of HIV patients. So the government embarked on an aggressive prevention program as its only hope. The message of condom use was already being spread nationally for puropses of population control and family planning, so it was expanded for HIV awareness.
Materials for training and education were developed for all ages from young children on up (including one game I remember with condoms being used by primary school-aged kids playing a game with condom "water baloons". After only a few more years, there was a visible and measurable reduction in new cases. Every village and hamlet had workshops and seminars and millions of people learned how to use them. Now the spread seems to be under control, the best record of any country in Asia right now.
The government policy is still to provide millions of free condoms every year through-out the country. Go into the smallest, most remote village. They may not have the basics of electricity or running water in some few remaining cases, but the village general store will have a big box of free condoms.
Even with this proving itself true, the Catholic Church still preaches against it. Thank God (if you'll pardon the expression...) there are so few Christians here in this Buddhist countries!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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An editorial I wrote for the local paper today 
Yeah, we know sex is very bad for us all! 
Cool, Kevvy 
