Sunday, May 1, 2011

COMMENTARY: Massachusetts Must Stop Funding Sexual Website for Teens

Last week, Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley and the other three Roman Catholic bishops of Massachusetts called on the state to stop funding a sexual education website for teens.

This website uses graphic language to describe sex acts and downplays the physical and emotional risks of abortion.

The four Massachusetts bishops are correct in urging the state to end its $100,000 annual grant to fund this website. They are also correct in their position that this website be taken down altogether.

The website -- maintained by the independent AIDS Action Committee -- has the support of the Massachusetts Department Public Health, which claims that it provides important sexual health information for teens.

Nonetheless, Massachusetts must not fund a website that borders on pornography. Teens seeking answers to their questions on sexual health know how to log onto Google and other websites that provide answers to their specific questions.

The fact is that pornography -- with its hundreds of websites -- has become a billion dollar annual "business" on the Internet.

Consequently, not only should Massachusetts end its sexual education website for teens, but the federal government must also take action to eliminate the plethora of horrendous pornographic websites that have pervaded the Internet for the past several years, thus taking America on an immoral and anti-Christian path -- a path destined to lead to the decline and downfall of what had once been the greatest nation on earth.

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