Abstinence and World Peace

Pam Stenzel is a woman on a mission - she is a sex educator that travels the world telling young people the truth about sexual behavior.  She teaches abstinence before marriage as the only way to emotional, spiritual and physical health in so far as it stems from sexual behavior.

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In one of her dvds she shares something insightful - at least I found it so. 

She was sharing with delegates from the United Nations about the importance of teaching young people around the world about the importance of abstinence before marrige.  She was asked why she persisted in teaching and pursuing something that would never happen.  "Our teenagers will be having sex." 

Pam reminded the delegates of their own mission statement.  It in essence is "World Peace" (you can google it for all the particulars).  She then asked the group if any of them truly believed that they would achieve a world with no war.  Only one sheepish soul in the back raised his hand. 
"Then why this lofty mission statement?" Pam wanted to know. "Why not just work towards safer war?"- and her point was clear. 

We don't pursue an idea because it is attainable.  We pursue an idea because it is right.

We don't teach our kids absolute truths because we are able to force them to adhere to these.  We teach these because it is right to do so - and what our children do with the truth is theirs to own.