If
you actually read a sex story in Dolly (rather than just
be outraged by a headline), you'll see that the message we push
consistently is one of extreme caution and abstinence. Having
sex is never portrayed as cool or aspirational, but rather as a
huge decision with equally huge consequences.
We
are constantly searching for advocates of virginity, such as Guy
Sebastian, and the vast majority of Dolly's sex content
focuses heavily on the negative emotional and physical
consequences of having sex before you're ready."
Click here for the full article from The Age, August 19 2004.
Most parents won't buy
this line from Mia Freedman, editor-in-chief of
Dolly and Cosmopolitan. However it is something to see Mia
promote Guy Sebastian as a
role model for his Godly sexual values!
Guy comes from
Paradise Church SA, where they are doing an incredible job impacting
the Australian culture for Christ. Check out some of the marketplace action
that has emanated from Paradise:
Planet Shakers,
BGMI,
Family First Party. These people are taking
Genesis 1:28 very seriously with outstanding success. Roll on
Paradise!
Condoms do not
Provide "Safe Sex"
Extract from a
report by the Sexual Health Working Party, Queensland Department of
Health:
"These data would suggest that condoms could properly
be said to be highly effective against only Gonorrhoea and HIV disease,
which together account for 5.5% of the STI’s documented to occur at our
largest Queensland STD clinic. This suggests that they will be inactive,
or only weakly active against 94.5% of Queensland STI’s, which not only
suggests a very different public health policy from the one currently in
vogue, but also suggests that the present condom based campaign may
actually be responsible to some degree for the present explosion of
STI’s in Australia...
However on the broader context of sexual
and reproductive health for the cross section of the Australian
community, the technical shortcomings of condom-based public health
programs is now obvious to the discerning and informed reviewer. Harm
minimization based programs appear to have a natural “fatigue time”
which has now been exceeded. Public Health Policy Makers will need
to urgently come to grips with this major phenomenon if they are
properly to prepare our community for the next millenium of sexual
health challenges – of which a good number appear to continually emerge.
What are the alternatives?...
The major
obvious alternative would be a return to a traditional morality and
family values and a promotion of exclusive marriage as the sexual social
and cultural norm."
Click here
for the full article, Sept 1998.
True Love Waits will take
a global stand for purity this weekend at the Olympics in Athens
"An Evening With the Olympians: True Love Waits" will be held
Sunday night at the Dora Stratou Theatre, located at the base of the
Acropolis. The event will feature several athletes, including 1988 gold
medallist Joe DeLoach and "Olympic Athlete of the Century" and 10-time
medallist (nine gold and one silver) Carl Lewis.
True Love Waits (TLW), a LifeWay Christian Resources ministry, is
partnering with Lay Witnesses for Christ International to host the
special program, during which athletes will be encouraging young people
to make a commitment to sexual purity by choosing to abstain from sex
until marriage.
Jimmy Hester, co-founder of True Love Waits, says the Olympic event is a
golden opportunity to communicate God's design for human sexuality.
Hester says the message of abstinence transcends all cultural barriers,
and the TLW movement, which began in the U.S., has caught on in several
places around the globe.
The TLW spokesman says event organizers in Athens have already received
abstinence commitment cards of young people from every inhabited
continent in the world.
