Now it is abuse to not kiss a guy before marriage?
Michelle looks happy enough, but it can’t possibly be real. Not when:
her parents so brainwashed her from the time she was not capable of making an informed decision, and then insulated her from society to maintain that indoctrination so severely, that this girl has reached college age having never been kissed by a boy (or a girl, presumably) and is happy about that. (emphasis in original).
And how dare she be happy about it. Unfathomable. This is why we need public education and sex education starting in kindergarten. Not so that children can be protected from venereal diseases and unplanned pregnancies, but to make sure they don’t live a life of regret.
These, dear Michelle are the things we regret in life. We regret the things we didn’t do. We regret not kissing our English teachers. I hope you come to that realization sooner rather than later, before the regrets pile up so high they eat you alive when you finally notice them. Ibid.
I’m not quite sure what to say, actually. But as the apparently fictional author says in response to an administrative correction to the use of “dismissive or insulting name calling,”
This may have been one of those times [I have been slightly obnoxious], but I do find it utterly shameful that this girl has been so… sorry, I just can’t fully articulate how I feel about the damage that has been done to Miss Vitt. It is beyond the pale. source
It is so much better to have them forced from their families and taught the pleasures of free love from kindergarten.
Why this reminds me of this old quote, I am not sure:
Let me seduce the boys of England and the oldsters may totter unconverted to their graves. Then these boys, become men, may bring about the new Heaven and the new Earth…but without an army I am useless…give me my army, young men; and we will sweep these dogs into the sea.”
–The World’s Tragedy, p. XXV
Or this one (my translation):
The co-author of the Hessian Sexual Education Guidelines stated several years ago, “We need the sexual stimulation of the students in order to bring about the socialist restructuring of socety and the do away with the obedience to authority, including the love of a child to its parent.
from: Gruende fuer Homeschooling (Reasons for homeschooling)
Poor, damaged, girl. Never abused by a man and happy about it.
I don’t know what else to say.
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Dana did you go on to read the comment section… because you forgot:
[She has been robbed of those opportunities by the Fundamentalist repression of her parents, and that's morally criminal, if it's not legally criminal. Further, if it's not legally criminal, there's a good case to made that it should be.]
Okay, whatever ~ Since Michelle doesn’t think like us; she is wrong, her parents are wrong. We want to give her the freedom to conform by making laws that everyone has to assimilate. A nation of borgs ~
Wow, now I am scared. We (hubby and I)are the evil sort of parents that have guidelines and boundries for our teenaged sons. They cannot date, join websites that promote secular lifestyles or watch promiscuous television shows.
If they happen to interested in a young lady, they will bring her home and socialize with the family. No going to the bedroom, no being “alone” with her. We are actually teaching them to respect a woman and to help her to remain pure. (I know, I know, how can they respect her if they don’t defile her?) We are trying to teach them that they want to marry a woman who is a virgin (a what??!!) but most importantly, one who puts God first in her life.
We are waiting in our home for the children and youth services people to bust down our door and force us to teach our sons that it is ok to be predators.
Love your blog.
With tongue planted firmly in my cheek…
kjoyr814
Stranger, indeed.
I am astounded that the author of that post can honestly claim that no one ever regrets not waiting. Wow.
I guess she must be fictional. I don’t know anyone who only regrets not sexually assaulting her teacher, but has no regrets for premature physical relationships.
And I’ve only been a sheltered Christian for three years!
have you read the COMMUNIST GOALS
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen](Read into The Congressional Record, Jan. 10, 1963)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37ebc13801fd.htm
#28 says:
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Looks like many on the list have been accomplished already.
Yes, Julie…I read through the comments. It just gets worse, doesn’t it?
Kim, I totally agree. To disagree with her decision is one thing. To even see it as a tad on the overprotective side of the parents is fine. But to respond with such vitriole? Please. We don’t put models of the opposite lifestyle up in that fashion unless they themselves are saying they are regretful of it.
And then we give them sympathy and prayer, not hatred.
Charity, that is what I wanted to say! The fact that she regrets not sexually assaulting her English teacher is very telling of the general mentality, isn’t it.
Judy, I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees the connections between this thinking and socialist/communist goals. Nice confirmation I’m not going insane!
Hmmm. I wonder what the writer would think of girls like me, public-schooled & non-religious, who have never been kissed and are quite happy about it! Some people are so brainwashed they assume if something (abstinence) is embraced by a certain sect (religious group) than they must disagree with it because only crazies would do that! No dear, some things are just wrong, no matter what your religious beliefs are.
Having read the article–yes, people do have regrets. I have regret about how and when and with whom I lost my virginity. Not horrible regret, not regret I think about all the time nor regret that plagues me, but regret as time goes on and I see what could have been or should have beenif it should happen to cross my mind, such as when this articulte brings it to my awareness. So yes, there is regret our there for the actions we DO take. The writer is very naive there.
As for regrets for what we have not done — that is a famous quote of Mark Twain’s:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
And yes it is very true. But how many of us lay on our death beds and regret such trivial things as a missed kiss. Honestly! Looking over our life would have us reflecting on much bigger things. Again, showing the age and maturity of the writer.
But I can understand what he is getting at and I am sure that in some cases extreme indoctrination and insulation do happen. But I am afraid he is using the extreme as a generalization.
Opps, the writer was a she. Where is that darn edit button LOL
Wow. I’m shocked by the venom directed at a virtuous lifestyle. I guess I shouldn’t be, JanieBelle is only saying what those promoting a sexualization agenda are really supporting, regardless of how they wrap it up in politically correct terms.
It is funny how those so-called “free choice” types don’t want anyone to make a choice different from theirs.
I only hope that my children will be “abused” by this indoctrination of purity instead of by the teenage society that focuses on how many times you’ve been kissed or how many boyfriends “loved” you. That is such a set up for a damaged, broken heart.
Some country (maybe yours), Some time (maybe in the not too distant future)
New Federal Statute to be immediately enforced across the entire breath of this land.
Those caught practicing abstinence OR those young enough to not know any better MUST immediately report to the National Center for Social Compliance and be un-abstinated.
Disobedience to this law will result in:
1) The legal forcible rape of said offender without consequence to person performing said social deed.
2) Internment into Social Re-education camp where arbeit macht frei. Offender must have no fewer than 100 social compliance acts before parole could be considered.
Thank you to the citizenry for reporting these criminals. We must keep our nation free.
I guess that Janie-Belle would rather Michelle was that lucky 13 year old British girl who was sexually molested by a teenage German boy whilst on vacation in Turkey (apparently she made out she was 15 and things got a little out of hand).
You gotta watch out what you link to, Dana. I think you can forget about getting onto a carnival hosted by homeschoolblogger after this
All I can say is wow. I personally do not know a single woman who regrets waiting for Mr. Right but several who regret *NOT* waiting.
I wonder what the pro-premarital sex crowd makes of the statistics showing that the higher the number of pre-marital sexual partners, the lower the likelihood of marrying and the higher the likelihood of divorce?
What else to expect from a website called “Sex in the Public Square” ….
Scatty, however will I survive? They can link to or refuse to link to whomever they choose, but it gets impossible fast…unless you just decide not to link to anyone.
ArmyAngel, thank you so much for sharing your perspective. The author might be surprised to know that I decided to remain abstinent long before becoming a Christian. I don’t exactly know why. I remember a conversation with my mom when I was about 8…I announced I wouldn’t never smoke and not have sex before marriage. She responded with the terribly supportive, “I wish I had a tape recorder so I could replay that to you when you are 16.”
Most influential to me, however, were two incidents in junior high. A friend of mine returned from Spring Break and confided to me that it was a good break because she “only got laid once.” I knew she was sexually active, but never realized before then that it was against her will. Why did she do it?
The other was while sitting in the back of Chemistry. Russell had just stared seeing Holly. First date, I believe. He was showing off the outline of the condom in his wallet and the other boys were taking bets about how far he would get.
Why would I want to join in that mess?
But the Christian is abusive for desiring to save their children from this? For teaching there is more to sex? For teaching this is one of the greatest gifts God gave to mankind, physically pleasurable and spiritually uniting?
Crimson Wife, I’m not sure, but I would guess the visitors of this site may well view marriage as an archaic and enslaving institution. : (