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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 06:32:51 EDT
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Subject:      Safe Sex #3
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Subject: Safe Sex #3


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    * How Safe Is "Safe Sex" Medically? - The John Ankerberg Show. *
    *                          Part 3                              *
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    John: Now many like Dr. Ruth and Planned Parenthood think that we
should teach our young people to practice abstinence, but then add "If
you don't abstinence, please use a condom." Now what's wrong with such a
message? Well Dr. Day comments about presenting this double message
concerning sex to our teenagers. Listen...


    Day: The government is giving teenagers a double message. On one hand
they're saying "AIDS is dangerous." but then "You're okay if you use a
condom." You can't give teenagers a double message about smoking and
expect them to stop. We can't say "Don't smoke, but if you do, then only
smoke a little bit." Smoking can kill you, but not nearly as readily as
AIDS. And in fact, can you imagine Surgeon General Koop telling his
children if they're a nurse or a doctor, "If you go into the room with a
person who has AIDS, and you are going to get any body fluids on you,
cover up. Wear gloves, wear glasses or goggles, and wear a gown. *BUT* if
you're going to have sex with that same person, take off everything and
just put on a condom." That's ridiculous and an absurd suggestion to
anyone.

    How can a principal of a school, or the head of a school district,
give out these condoms? I think they should give out an informed consent.
They should have to sit down with every teenager and say, "Now this has a
14% pregnancy rate. It has double or triple, or quadruple that for the
transmission of AIDS. They break. They come off. They have holes in them.
They are destroyed by ozone." Do they sit down and tell them all that?
No, they just hand them out.

    What they're really saying to the teens of America is: "We figure you
have no self restraint. We feel you have no integrity. We feel you have
no courage." They expect the least of our teenagers, and then they give
them some platitude which is a condom, which will still allow them to
die.


    John: Now maybe you're saying, "John, you're being unrealistic. You
can't expect teenagers to wait until marriage for sex." Well I asked Josh
McDowell who has talked face to face with more teenagers than anyone else
in America to respond to that line of thinking. Listen.


    Josh: And then they'll say, "Well look. It's unrealistic to expect
them to wait." Dr. Ruth was speaking to 1,500 students at the University
of Cincinnati, and before 1500 students, Dr. Ruth made this statement,
said "Young people, it's unrealistic to expect you to wait, your libido"
in other words your sex drive, "is too strong." And they applauded her.
1500 students that are supposed to have both oars in the water, they
didn't even have the boat in the water, they applauded her.

    Do you know what that's saying? I wish Dr. Ruth and Planned
Parenthood  and some of the other sex educators would get one thing
straight. When we talk about young people, we're talking about my
children, your children, and other people's kids. We are *NOT* talking
about animal sexuality. We are talking about human sexuality. We're
talking about young people, who have the capacity to make right moral
decisions and abide by them.

    And what I tell young people is, "The moment you surrender that in
your life to Dr. Ruth, Planned Parenthood, or anyone else, you have lost
your humanity, and you're no different than an animal."

    Is it unrealistic to expect them to wait? Think of it this way, if an
18 year old guy goes to Dr. Ruth say, and says "Dr. Ruth, I want to have
sex with my girl friend, but she doesn't want to have sex with me. What
should I do?" I guarantee, I know what Dr. Ruth would say, "Then you
should wait." But wait a minute, you've already stated it's unrealistic
to expect you to wait, you libido's too strong.

    So what they're saying is this and nobody calls them down on it, and
most young people are not mature enough to be able to evaluate it. What
they're saying is this. "If you're 18 years old, and you want to have sex
with your girlfriend, but she doesn't want to have sex with you? It's not
unrealistic to expect you to wait, your libido's not too strong. But, if
you're 18 years old and you want to have sex with your girlfriend and she
wants to have sex with you? Then it's unrealistic to expect you to wait,
your libido's too strong." That's hogwash.


    John: Next, I'd like to say a word to those of you who are
Christians. What does God say about "Safe Sex"? I've asked my good
friend, Dr. Charles Stanley to address this question from a Biblical
point of view, and here's what he said.


    Stanley: Well the Bible's very clear about sexual immorality. He
says, "This is the will of God, that you abstain from sexual immorality."
There's no question about it, He didn't say anything about "Safe Sex", He
said all sex outside of marriage is against His law. And then He says if
we sin against Him, we injure ourselves. And one of the very deceitful
things that is going on is, the implication that it's okay to have "Safe
Sex", you're going to be alright.

    When God says very clearly, "You sin against Me, you injure
yourself." He's clear about all sexual immorality. He's clear also about
the fact, I will suffer the consequences. My personal opinion is that
much of the so called sex education is a very subtile form of abuse to
our children. They're being abused legally in school listening to this,
abused emotionally and spiritually.


    John: Now isn't it interesting that what God says about sex is also
good medical advice. In light of all the evidence that you've heard, Do
you think that the message of safe sex is medically sound? If you think
the risks of "Safe Sex" are too high, then I hope the evidence will
persuade you to save sex for marriage, and to establish your dating
relationship according to the sound principles God has given us in the
Bible. Now next week we're going to continue with part 2.


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