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Who's the Worst Person in the World?
by Matt Barber
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It’s not Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  It’s not even Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Adolph Hitler.  No, according to Keith Olbermann — that blinkered liberal extremist who plays a newsman on TV — Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), is “the worst person in the world.”  

While discussing abstinence education during a recent interview on the Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Wright accurately pointed out that the most strident devotees of that abysmal failure tagged “comprehensive sex education” are most likely to benefit financially when children and teens become pregnant or contract sexually transmitted diseases.

During the interview, Wright hit the nail squarely on the head, saying, “In fact, they want to encourage [kids to have sex] because they benefit when kids end up having sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies and then they lead them into having abortions.  So, you have to look at the financial motives behind those who are promoting comprehensive sex ed.”

And the financial motives are staggering.  According to its own annual report, Planned Parenthood — which receives its lion’s share of profit from abortion — performed 264,943 abortions in the 2006 fiscal year, raking in an astronomical $55.8 million in profit … free and clear. 

It doesn’t take a Phi Beta Kappa to figure out that Planned Parenthood — one of the foremost cheerleaders of “comprehensive sex ed” — has a vested interest in seeing that young girls become pregnant and have abortions.  It’s a classic case of “the fox watching the hen house.”  “Comprehensive sex ed” spells money in the bank because it actually encourages kids to have sex.  It doesn’t work, and they know it.           

Well, Wright’s comments didn’t sit well with the left.  Liberal bloggers went nuts, and in a recent episode of MSNBC’s poorly rated “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” the painfully “progressive” talking-head took issue with Wendy for pointing out this clear conflict of interest, crowning her “the worst person in the world.”

Toward the end of his decidedly obtuse monologue, Olbermann — whose joke writer is also apparently on strike — smugly quipped, “And the condoms the sex educators keep trying to make available to the kids, those are for what … water balloons?” 

Well, Poindexter, yes, in fact.  That’s precisely what kids are using them for.  Take the African AIDS epidemic.  As CWA reported a few years back, Dr. Margaret Ogola of Kenya testified at two United Nations conferences that, “‘family planners’ have put so many condoms into Kenya that the children use them as balloons and play with them in the streets.” 

Tragically, we all know how “comprehensive sex education” has worked-out in Africa.    

Unfortunately, it’s no better right here at home.  Despite a culture that relentlessly extols the phantom virtues of so-called “safe sex” and practically throws condoms at children by the handful, STD and teen pregnancy rates remain high. 

Like a broken record, liberal educators and cultural elites incessantly regurgitate, “always have safe sex,” while the only thing impressionable, hormone charged kids hear is, “have sex!” Continued...

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Matt Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel and Associate Dean at the Liberty University School of Law. (This information is provided for identification purposes only.)

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Subject: How About Michael Savage?
Interesting that you would attack a clearly liberal commentator who makes his own opinions, yet in the past, you have defended the equally offensive Dr. Michael Weiner, A.K.A. conservative shockjock Michael Savage ("Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder", anyone?)

The only difference between the two commentators is that one is liberal and one is conservative. SO, if it comes down to defending one shockjock's comments while condemning another's based soley on politics, then isn't that a little bit conservatively BIASED?

I'll give you some time for your weasel brain to compute that through.

Here's your solution...
To those who actually think the 1950's were golly gee whiz real and you can keep kids from having sex just by telling them No.

Instead of the RU486 pill, invent the U-R-CELE-B8 pill. It will make teens not want to have sex. We just need a miracle drug that will overcome our inherited drives (God given instincts) to procreate.

After all, teens who are immature and judgmentally-challenged can't say yes if their libido is put to sleep-o, until they're what... 18? 20? 21?

It is simple-minded, negligent and down-right absurd to think that the few dollars made from condoms and birth control is enough to bribe health teachers.

Promote abstinence, but not ALONE.

You wonder why we have so many teen pregnancies and abortions?

We won't tell our kids about sex, won't let the teachers do it, won't give them protection, or let anyone else do it... won't give them options - until it is too late. Then, the only options are keep it, kill it or give it up.

Educate. Protect. Options.

Any ONE of those three would make the above article quite moot.

Matt and Ms. Wright, do you even have memory of being a teen? Let alone the sex part? Tell you what, if you actually having sex right now with a willing partner, try giving it up for 6 years. Get back to me if you make it.

WJ
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