Posted by Bill on 04/05/06 16:07

Fair enough. Life is filled with paradoxes. Did you know that in
Holland, where marijuana is essentially legal, only about 13% of young
teenagers have tried it? In the U.S., where it is very illegal, the
number is closer to 35% for the same age group.

We might disagree about how it works, but I hope most of us can
acknowledge that social behavior is influenced by more than prayer in
public schools.

One other quick example of how not all Christians see moral issues in
the same light: to me, the fact that many Christian leaders-- in
addition to campaigning for prayer and the 10 commandments in school--
also campaigned for excluding from the history books accounts of how
native peoples were abused, mistreated, and sometimes slaughtered in
cold blood as part of the expansion of the colonies-- leads to a certain
moral ambiguity and inconsistency.

And now I really will stop posting off topic here. Regards.

Richard Crowley wrote:
> "Bill" wrote ...

> And yet teen preganancy is higher AFTER widespread
> distribution of birth control and abortion. I suspect you
> need to keep looking for the actual correlation. Many of
> us have a different theory.

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