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11.13.2009 5:33 pm

It’s time to end abstinence-only education

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Recently, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved the continuation of funding to abstinence-only education. While abstinence is the only method that is 100% effective in preventing pregnancy, this current education format is not working. According to the Center for Disease…

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09.25.2009 6:57 pm

Only one vice left to tax

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

 

It was reported recently that the government is considering a tax for high sugar products such as soft drinks and candy. Sugar would then join existing “sin taxes” imposed on alcohol and tobacco. This makes the only vice left untaxed…

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06.06.2008 5:57 pm

Women enjoy “Sex and the City” as entertainment, not for role-modeling

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I wonder if Colleen Carroll Campbell herself viewed the “Sex and the City” movie? (”The trouble with “Sex and the City’s fairy tale ending” ,6/5/08).  Better yet, has she watched enough of the episodes to support her views…or are they…

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06.04.2008 11:31 am

Let’s stop using sex to sell gluttony

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Driving this work this morning on Highway 40 nearing the 11th Street Stadium Exit, I saw something, well, disturbing.

I must start off by saying, in the broad sense of the term, I am a free-thinking liberal mind.

I am also not…

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05.21.2008 5:18 pm

Sexualized society is not good for little girls

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Society now days is promoting the sexual exploitation of young women and girls. Magazines,T.V. mostly show scantily clad females.

Department Stores promote way to revealing clothing for the age group they are intended for. One bit of good news though. Some…

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04.16.2008 4:22 pm

Americans’ selective outrage on sex is passive judgment

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The developing story around the raid and “rescue” operation conducted in Texas begins to reveal some troubling nuances that raise a whole variety of questions about the interest of the state in the protection of children and the institution of…

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