The following comes from a June 8 FRC Action article:
When it comes to self-control, the government has a hard enough time practicing it — let alone promoting it! That’s why last week’s announcement from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was so important. After years of burying its head in the sand and throwing billions of dollars at an STD problem it helped create, the government finally admitted what the Bible and common sense made abundantly clear: abstinence and monogamy are the only ways to avoid disease.
In its 2015 “Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines,” a two-word change made all the difference. Five years ago, the CDC used to say abstinence and monogamy were “a reliable way to avoid disease.” As of last Friday, the agency agrees it’s “the most reliable way.” That may not seem like a radical edit to most people, but in this administration, moral purity is as foreign a concept as political transparency.
For years, FRC and other groups have fought the spread — not just of infection and disease — but the mentality that sexual liberalism should be promoted in schools, prioritized in health care, and paid for by taxpayers. As a result, the government is spending $16 billion a year cleaning up the mess it helped make with the “if-it-feels-good-do-it” approach. With more than 20 million new cases of STDs cropping up every year, America’s biggest health crisis may be the one nobody’s talking about. A monster strain of gonorrhea is spreading, and experts say it might be worse than AIDS. That explosion, along with the spike in chlamydia infections, syphilis, HIV, Hepatitis, and herpes is panicking the medical community, which sees that young people are disproportionately affected — “accounting for half of all new [sexually-transmitted infections].”
Fortunately, the CDC is finally acknowledging that the only way to stem the tide is to put new energy into an old strategy: saving sex for marriage. And thanks to Congress, the government will have another $50 million a year to try. Under GOP control, the House and Senate just authorized the biggest raise for abstinence education since President Obama significantly slashed funding in 2009.
Just the example of Syphilis – from the Scourge of Humanity to an easily treatable condition (if caught in time) with penicillin – to the modern Treatment Resistant Strains now Vectoring out of ‘Happy Spaces’ like the Castro in Sodom by the Sea, shows How Far ‘we’ have come – full circle.
Activists try to convince the ignorant that so called ‘Victorian Morality’ is an archaic superstition – when in fact the whole society witnessed the ravages of that “Loathsome Disease” destroy the health, mind and family of those who contracted it, and their Moral Codes of Sexual Fidelity were a direct response – that worked, when applied of course.
There is a famous picture of Gangster Al Capone after his release from Alcatraz, sitting by a…
Roaring 20s Gangster Al Capone was finally imprisoned for Tax Evasion and sent to Alcatraz. He was released when third stage Syphilis had so rotted his brain (Capone refused to seek treatment and his prostitution rackets spread the same diseases he had) that Capone was a complete veggie.
The final picture taken of him lounging on a deck chair in his bathrobe with a cigar and fishing poll in the water was a staged hoax, as he had no brain left and they left the hook off the line because if even a small fish had bitten it would have pulled the rod from his unfeeling hands.
Understanding of the whole ‘sewing & reaping’ gig was also beyond Al by that time too…
Reminds me of the old comedy skit:
PATIENT: Doc, it hurts when I do this . .
DOCTOR: Well, then don’t do that!
Center for Disease Control – 2013 statistics on Sexually Transmitted Diseases in USA.
https://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/STI-Estimates-Fact-Sheet-Feb-2013.pdf
Mac, thanks for providing the direct link to the DDC info.