Is abstinence Education Working?
While some experts credit the sagging economy for last year's low birth rates, a Christian public policy women's group suggests another reason.
Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America (CWA) says the truth is that teen birth rates have been dropping for several years now, and the stats from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are good news.
"[Teen birth rates] dropped nine percent. This is about the third year in a row when these have declined," she reports. "It's also a record low for younger and older teenagers and for every single race, and that is particularly significant because the black rate has been very high in comparison to other races, and also with Hispanic groups."
The birth rate has also dropped among women who are in their 20s and 30s, as well as for unmarried women. Crouse sees the positive stats as a clear indication that teaching abstinence has had an impact.
"I think it also represents a real victory for people who have advocated traditional values to young women and have told them that there are very definite risks for children and very definite harms for young women themselves when their children are born outside of wedlock and raised in fatherless families," she suggests.
The CWA spokesperson concludes that encouraging youngsters to practice so-called "safe sex" has not been effective for the 20-plus years it has been taught, pointing out that the birth rate has only dropped since implementation of abstinence education. Crouse adds that the idea that a poor economy reduces the birth rate does not prove true when compared to the data collected over the years. –One News Now
While some experts credit the sagging economy for last year's low birth rates, a Christian public policy women's group suggests another reason.
Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America (CWA) says the truth is that teen birth rates have been dropping for several years now, and the stats from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are good news.
"[Teen birth rates] dropped nine percent. This is about the third year in a row when these have declined," she reports. "It's also a record low for younger and older teenagers and for every single race, and that is particularly significant because the black rate has been very high in comparison to other races, and also with Hispanic groups."
The birth rate has also dropped among women who are in their 20s and 30s, as well as for unmarried women. Crouse sees the positive stats as a clear indication that teaching abstinence has had an impact.
"I think it also represents a real victory for people who have advocated traditional values to young women and have told them that there are very definite risks for children and very definite harms for young women themselves when their children are born outside of wedlock and raised in fatherless families," she suggests.
The CWA spokesperson concludes that encouraging youngsters to practice so-called "safe sex" has not been effective for the 20-plus years it has been taught, pointing out that the birth rate has only dropped since implementation of abstinence education. Crouse adds that the idea that a poor economy reduces the birth rate does not prove true when compared to the data collected over the years. –One News Now
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Economics Teacher Bullies Student For Disagreeing With Homosexuality
A teacher’s decision to promote homosexuality in class rather than teach the approved economics curriculum – and the school district’s endorsement of that – soon will be hitting the court docket, as a complaint has been filed by a student subjected to the instructor’s “bullying.”
Officials with the Thomas More Law Center say they have filed a federal lawsuit against the Howell Public School District in Howell, Mich., and teacher Johnson “Jay” McDowell for punishing and humiliating a student after he responded to McDowell’s question about homosexuality with his biblically based perspective.
“Rather than teach the required economics curriculum for which he is paid, McDowell, with the full knowledge of school officials, used his position of authority to promote his homosexual agenda at taxpayers’ expense,” said Richard Thompson, chief of the law center. –Vision To America
Officials with the Thomas More Law Center say they have filed a federal lawsuit against the Howell Public School District in Howell, Mich., and teacher Johnson “Jay” McDowell for punishing and humiliating a student after he responded to McDowell’s question about homosexuality with his biblically based perspective.
“Rather than teach the required economics curriculum for which he is paid, McDowell, with the full knowledge of school officials, used his position of authority to promote his homosexual agenda at taxpayers’ expense,” said Richard Thompson, chief of the law center. –Vision To America
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Crystal Cathedral Sold
Though one Christian attorney laments the sale of the iconic Crystal Cathedral, he says the deal was inevitable.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert N. Kwan has approved the sale of the Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. Judge Kwan ruled Thursday that the monumental Orange County (California) church will be sold for $57.5 million to the diocese, which plans to convert the property into a countywide Catholic cathedral. The judge's decision follows the Crystal Cathedral's announcement that the diocese was its preferred buyer, even though Chapman University -- another bidder on the property -- would have allowed the church to lease back and eventually repurchase the buildings on the Garden Grove campus.
"We hate to see such an institution go down and its congregants forced to go somewhere else, but I think this was a decision the Cathedral had to make, and I guess they thought the diocese was the best recipient of the property," comments Matt Krause of Liberty Counsel.
A bidding frenzy occurred between Chapman University and the diocese before the final sale of the 40-acre property was announced. The school had hoped to build an extension campus and possibly a medical school on the church's landmark property, while church officials had hoped to escape the sale altogether. It attempted to raise the needed $50 million before the deadline, but was only able to gather $173,000 by the end of September.
"I'm sure they will look hard and try to find a venue that's more suitable to the size of their congregation now and their monthly revenue flow," Krause predicts. "So I'm sure they'll have to downsize quite considerably from that magnificent structure there." -One News Now
Though one Christian attorney laments the sale of the iconic Crystal Cathedral, he says the deal was inevitable.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert N. Kwan has approved the sale of the Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. Judge Kwan ruled Thursday that the monumental Orange County (California) church will be sold for $57.5 million to the diocese, which plans to convert the property into a countywide Catholic cathedral. The judge's decision follows the Crystal Cathedral's announcement that the diocese was its preferred buyer, even though Chapman University -- another bidder on the property -- would have allowed the church to lease back and eventually repurchase the buildings on the Garden Grove campus.
"We hate to see such an institution go down and its congregants forced to go somewhere else, but I think this was a decision the Cathedral had to make, and I guess they thought the diocese was the best recipient of the property," comments Matt Krause of Liberty Counsel.
A bidding frenzy occurred between Chapman University and the diocese before the final sale of the 40-acre property was announced. The school had hoped to build an extension campus and possibly a medical school on the church's landmark property, while church officials had hoped to escape the sale altogether. It attempted to raise the needed $50 million before the deadline, but was only able to gather $173,000 by the end of September.
"I'm sure they will look hard and try to find a venue that's more suitable to the size of their congregation now and their monthly revenue flow," Krause predicts. "So I'm sure they'll have to downsize quite considerably from that magnificent structure there." -One News Now
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