Abstinence and Palin's Daughter

Just a couple of other things Palin got screwed up. The problem with abstinence is that it just doesn't work. It's nothing other than an easy way out for parents. This way they can put the blame on their kids and say it is all their fault.

Abstinence has never been easy for anybody. Parents get it wrong all the time. Preachers and even priests can't completely abstain as a group and these are people who have taken big-time, real serious vows placing their souls up to God as collateral for betraying a young one on sexual desire. But then they find a way to make it happen.

Easy to blame the Evil One for this. "The devil made me do it!" But I'm afraid that God is the guilty one here, because we are all clearly hard-wired to have sex, to have it repeatedly and with as many people as possible and as early in life as feasible. Darwin tried to get God off this hook by showing this natural selection process using random events would insure the continuation of life in a species and enable the most vigorous members to improve the product. But of course, like so many other "Christian Right" people, Palin believes that Darwin is the only human proven to have come from a monkey and all the rest of us were formed by an intelligent creator. So when I went to my parents for help and they said it was up me and God, and God made me, then God also made me do it.

Of course now there is a corollary to Darwin's theories. In this modern age, the really clever, ingenious, daring, capable, skillful, and resourceful young-uns who have the most sex with other students are the ones who DON'T have offspring. OK, so a clever blow to "Intelligent Design". But this is nothing new. This was widely known over the centuries. The great poet even wrote about how "Abstinence makes the hard grow longer", or something like that. But just ask ANY school kid.