Fear Mongering Girls Into Purity
The room of about 125 parents and children watched recorded interviews with a pimp and prostitutes, learned modern-day slavery exists in the form of the sex trade, and saw grisly images of people who’d suffered at the hands of hard drugs — such as a woman who’d lost limbs in a methamphetamine lab explosion and a man who’d had his face partially gnawed off by a meth user.
Wide-eyed youngsters watched as two girls gave dramatic performances told from the perspective of one girl who had died after abusing diet pills and one who had died after contracting a sexually transmitted disease as a prostitute. The monologues concluded with each girl getting on a gurney and into a body bag.
When asked whether she’d recruited the Toe Tag Monologues to perform to send the message that engaging in premarital sex meant risking death, Coward said, “Yeah, because that’s what’s happening.”
And this was co-sponsored by the Police, so how many of these kids will now think that their bodies are a crime scene?
Not to make light of drug and sex trafficking, but I don’t understand how Purity plays a role here (Crime fighting? Public Safety?), but they seem to be implying some sort of linkage. And also implied is that marriage will protect you from these horrors, which is patently not true. And if marriage will save you, then what about the gay kids living in states where they cannot marry? Sorry kids: a life of drugs and pimps for you! Also/too: most Americans have premarital sex; most Americans are not drug addicts or prostitutes.
There is an event in the works for the boys: Choose Courage. I can hardly wait.
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By: Tengrain
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