Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Planned Parenthood, the wisdom issue Message-ID: <4356@alice.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 11:55:09 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4356 Posted: Mon Sep 23 11:55:09 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:39:24 EDT Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 29 Frankly, I find both sides of this "should Planned Parenthood give Moral ADVICE" debate stupid. It seems to me that pre-marital sex, adolescent sex, etc, are all easily lumpable under the heading of "wisdom", i.e. is it WISE to behave in a given manner? While I'd think it was absolutely idiotic to say to a kid that "it's immoral to have premarital sex, even if you don't believe in my God and teachings, because I say so", I think it's entirely reasonable to say "I think it's UNWISE, unless you consider the following: ..." if the following include health, happiness, understanding of consequences, the effects of sexual conduct on emotional matters, and the like. (I'm NOT talking about scare tales, folks, just about a two-way discussion concerning the effects of sex on a relationship.) Why is it that both the 'liberal' element and the 'religious' element insist on making morality of what is a simple question of wisdom? Yours for free choice, without {deliberately imposed guilt, harrassment, or enforcement of 'christian' moral codes upon unbelievers}. -- SUPPORT SECULAR TEDDY-BEAR-ISM. "All the money that e'er I spent, I spent it in good company..." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj