THIS WAS SENT TO ME FROM A TRUSTED FRIEND.  I HOPE AND PRAY IT WILL NOT HAPPEN.

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In this short but increasingly horrifying segment on the growth of what some have called the US Christian Taliban, prominent evangelistFrank Schaeffer tells us why the rhetoric of the religious right is dramatically increasing the likelihood of assassination attempts on President Obama.    It’s just been revealed that people are marketing t-shirts and bumper stickers that promote Psalms 109.8, which says “Let his days be few, and let another take his office”, and is followed by Psalms 109.9: “Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow”!!  I agree with Schaefer that it’s time to speak up against this kind of stuff.  I am far from an uncritical supporter of the president, but this is crossing what should be an uncrossable line, and the people doing it are also like those who wanted to deny people of color in their segregated places, and women subservient in the home, and the killing of gays and pro-abortionists.  If you can justify killing our president in the name of the Bible, you can justify killing anyone. If he can be killed in the name of the Bible, we all can.

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN TALIBAN

THERE IS THE IDEAL: ABSTINENCE, AND THE REAL: SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE.  ARE WE GOING TO DEAL WITH WHAT ISN’T, OR WHAT IS?  ARE WE GOING TO TELL OUR CHILDREN WHAT TO DO, OR ARE WE GOING TO BE OPEN AND HELPFUL TO THEM BY LETTING THEM KNOW WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES AND I WANT TO KNOW YOUR PROBLEMS AND HELP YOU DEAL WITH THEM. –mackie

Do you know that one in three teen girls in the United States is estimated to get pregnant at least once before age 20? ⁶⁵ While this is better than a decade ago, when the number was four in ten girls, it is still too high. Pregnancy has very important consequences for teen girls and teen boys, and their children. Having a baby as a teen makes it much harder for a boy or girl to reach their goals, such as finishing high school, going on to college, getting a good job, or getting married when they grow up, and poses additional challenges to the child as well. ^66, 67

If a teen girl finds out she is pregnant, she and her parents, and the father of the baby and his parents have some tough decisions to make. None of them are easy:

• Some teen mothers decide to continue their pregnancy and then choose adoption for their baby. Adoption may be the best choice for the baby and the teen parents. There are many adoption agencies and types of adoption. Some teens are able to meet the parents who wish to adopt the baby.
• Many teens decide to keep their babies. Some marry the baby’s father and raise their baby together. Sometimes the baby’s grandparents or other family members help raise it so that the teen mother can stay in school and work. But it requires a lot of additional hard work for a teen parent to finish school and get a good job. Children of teen mothers face greater risk of poverty, behavioral problems, poor academic performance, incarceration, and teen pregnancy, sogood parenting skills are very important. ⁶⁸
• Some teen pregnancies end in abortion. Abortions can have complications. There may be emotional consequences, as well: some women say that they feel sad and some use more alcohol or drugs than before. ^69,70 Some states require teens to have their parent’s permission to get an abortion. To understand the scope of this situation, consider these numbers: In 2002, there were over 750,000 teen pregnancies in the United States,⁷¹ including over 215,000 teen abortions. ⁷²

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Uncategorized Adoption, Child, Family, Kids and Teens, Parenting, Pregnancy, Teenage pregnancy, United States