The wrong message

National | But here's common sense on sex from an unlikely source | Cal Thomas

The American Journal of Public Health has concluded that handing out condoms in New York City public schools has not increased the number of kids having sex. Apparently we are supposed to feel relieved.

One wonders about the reaction had cigarettes been distributed at school, with a survey concluding they did not increase the number of kids who smoked. Presumably, the anti-smoking police would launch a program to reduce the number of teen smokers with the goal of persuading kids that even smoking filtered cigarettes (the tobacco equivalent of sex with a condom) is bad for you.

The study concluded that access to condoms in schools is "a low-cost, harmless addition" to AIDS prevention efforts. It depends how one defines "cost." Premarital sex costs more than money, whether it is "protected" or not. There are emotional, psychological, and spiritual costs, but modern government is interested only in the physical. It surrendered its role in the moral development of children shortly after the sexual revolution began and now has traitorously gone over to the other side.