My Response to the article- "Abstinence-only sex ed defies common sense"

This article gave me more energy than anything I've read recently.

Arthur Caplan, Ph.D, wrote this article with some heavy statements:

"I am completely against abstinence-only sex ed programs for three reasons:
there
is no evidence at all that they work; common sense says they have no
chance of
working; and it is not clear that ethically they send the right
message to young
people."

(I started to get disheartened at this point, and even a little angry)

"The message that sex must wait until marriage is not the right message to
send to a young person. The people sending the message almost never lived up to
it in their own lives and nothing turns a kid off like hypocrisy. Furthermore,
most kids themselves just don’t believe it."

(gee, I believed it- and it was true! And NOT THE RIGHT MESSAGE? Sure, continue on encouraging promiscuity and the spread of STDs, increase that divorce rate! AGH!)

"And lastly, regardless of what someone's age is, it makes more sense to
talk about maturity, love and mutual respect than to send an absolute message
that sex is unacceptable outside marriage — a message that gets nullified the
day a person graduates from high school.
Science and common sense, not
wishful thinking and hypocrisy, should guide what we teach kids about
sex."

(hypocrisy? Hmm. Sounds like he's been lied to! And common sense? I feel sorry for this man! Furthermore, people of FAITH know that science does not explain all, nor direct all. GOD DOES)


Like I said, he really got me worked up.

So I sent him an e-mail:

Dear Dr. Caplan:

I quote you from your article,
"I am completely against abstinence-only sex ed programs for three reasons: there is no evidence at all that they work; common sense says they have no chance of working; and it is not clear that ethically they send the right message to young people."

Well, Dr.Caplan, I am here to prove you wrong!

Reason # 1- I am evidence that they work. As is my husband, the majority of our friends, and several of my family members.

Reason #2- Common sense says they have no chance?!
Boy, mister, you are something else! I would love to meet you in person. OBVIOUSLY it has a chance of working (abstinence), because I am here, happily married, with no STD, with my husband. He also has no STD, and we were happy to celebrate our wedding night with each other in the PROPER manner.

Reason # 3- not sending the right message? Listen, sir. If anything, YOU are the one sending the incorrect message. It is not "working" because of people like YOU sugar-coating this type of behavior. Calling it "normal" only makes people more numb to it, and it becomes more acceptable. I could go on and on at this point, but for now, I will not. It angers me too much.

I read your article with great disappointment and disgust.
HOW is today's youth to be taught properly when more and more people deny the sanctity of the marital act? Did you read that correctly? The MARITAL ACT. It is called that for a reason- it was designed for MARRIED people.

You inspire me to stick to my values, and to keep my children away from people like you, and from the public school system. Shame on you for so proudly publishing this!

One more thing- "And in Texas, at least since the days when George W. Bush was governor, sex ed classes almost exclusively espouse abstinence-only messages."
EXCELLENT JOB THERE, MR. PRESIDENT!!

Looking back, there is more I could have added, maybe should have added.
But what's done is done.
Now I wait for a reply- which common sense leads me to believe, there will be no reply from this liberal.
Should there be, I will share that.