Sex is good, and "social conservatives" (most likely you were referring to Christians who agree with what God has to say about how we should live, as written in the Bible) will agree that sex is good. After all, God designed it. We just believe that it should be reserved within marriage, between a man and a woman who have committed their lives to each other, and more importantly, to Christ. In this scenario, there's no need to worry about STDs or any number of other problems related to promiscuity.
The consequences of the rise in liberalism/socialism from the '60s are threatening to tear our country apart. We are divided on so many fronts, and division always causes weakness. Just look at the weak leader we're suffering under now. And he thinks he's a Christian. Yet he thinks it's okay to take from those who are hard-working and play by the rules, to provide for those who are lazy and don't want to work.
We've slaughtered over 40 million of our most innocent citizens: the unborn which were unfortunate enough to be conceived under "inconvenient" circumstances - all for the convenience of the self-absorbed, promiscuous, spoiled would-be parents who couldn't control their own urges.
The 60's also ushered in an epidemic of divorce, with one in two marriages being taken out by this abomination.
Instead of encouraging those who are struggling with same-sex attraction to pursue purity and live Christ-honoring lives, our self-indulgent culture tells them it's "normal" and that they should pursue whatever makes them happy. Well, it doesn't make them happy, and the dirty little secret is that they know they're not happy pursuing a lifestyle that is not what God intended. We say, "they're born that way", but it doesn't matter. If a BEHAVIOR not honoring to Christ, it won't make us happy in the long term either. Funny how that works.
On the scientific side, if you know anything about virus mutation, you know that these viruses aren't static. There will always be new STDs coming on the scene, and as long as people are promiscuous, people will continue to suffer and die because of sexual sin. Medicine can never keep up, no matter how much money we throw at controlling the consequences of sin. The only hope is to develop a culture which encourages people to remain abstinent outside of marriage.
So, how about some real journalism next time, instead of some hopeless hack job against people who hold a worldview that is different from yours?
AIDs, HPV, and other sexually-transmitted diseases have been a blessing for social conservatives.
In guarding against these illnesses, social conservatives can also reinforce a message that sex is bad and the 1960s were an evil time.
News alert. Sex is good. The 1960s were a mixed blessing, on balance an advance. And news from the vaccination front shows we may soon put fear in the past, at least for some hippies’ grandchildren.
First, Science reports today that new antibodies have been found that protect against AIDS, better known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The antibodies were found in Africa, where the disease is most prevalent, and could re-start the search for vaccines that ended in failure in 2007.
The big news here is that the antibodies seem effective against three-quarters of the known strains of HIV, and bind to an accessible portion of the virus’ DNA. It’s 10 times more powerful than any antibody found before.
Vaccines made with the antibodies could thus protect people from many different strains of the disease, slowing the infection rate and giving scientists a chance to destroy it completely.
The other good news involves a vaccine I have covered extensively at ZDNet Healthcare, Merck’s Gardasil. Its use on young girls has been highly controversial, but the good news today is it works on boys too. It seems to prevent lesions and persistent infections.
All of which means safer sex for everyone. But you still need a warning, one the hippie couple above, photographed by Nathan Watkins and posted to Flickr, will surely agree with.
Sex is easy. It’s love that’s hard. And lasting love beats sex in every way I know.
Happy Labor Day and peace out.
