"evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews"

Right Wingers apparently are more interested in teaching hypocrisy then the realities of the world.

This was on display with Sarah Palin who is proud of her values, and yet failed as a parent with a child who has a child before she could vote for her mom. Another child who was forced to go to war instead of going to jail.

And yet the defense of Bristol Palin was one of complete acceptance that this was normal. We should not have been surprised. When you teach teenagers to not have sex but not why they shouldn't nor give them a means to do what G-d made us to do responsibly they will have children.

See G-d gave us means and hormones telling us when we are supposed to have sex. We could teach our children that. Teach them that love is an important component. That responsibility is to be safe and be true to yourself. That there are consequences.

But the benefit of sex with love is an exchange so wonderful, so pleasureful that to describe it as anything short of G-dly seems wrong.

At the end of the day it comes down to this. Right Wing conservatives are hypocrites who espouse values they themselves don't live up to. Sex being the number one example.

The New Yorker has a great article Red Sex, Blue Sex which goes into great detail explaining this hypocrisy.

The “sexual début” of an evangelical girl typically occurs just after she turns sixteen.

...A Mississippi delegate claimed that “even though young children are making that decision to become pregnant, they’ve also decided to take responsibility for their actions and decided to follow up with that and get married and raise this child.” Palin’s family drama, delegates said, was similar to the experience of many socially conservative Christian families. As Marlys Popma, the head of evangelical outreach for the McCain campaign, told National Review, “There hasn’t been one evangelical family that hasn’t gone through some sort of situation.” In fact, it was Popma’s own “crisis pregnancy” that had brought her into the movement in the first place.

...The vast majority of white evangelical adolescents—seventy-four per cent—say that they believe in abstaining from sex before marriage. (Only half of mainline Protestants, and a quarter of Jews, say that they believe in abstinence.) Moreover, among the major religious groups, evangelical virgins are the least likely to anticipate that sex will be pleasurable, and the most likely to believe that having sex will cause their partners to lose respect for them. (Jews most often cite pleasure as a reason to have sex, and say that an unplanned pregnancy would be an embarrassment.) But, according to Add Health data, evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews. On average, white evangelical Protestants make their “sexual début”—to use the festive term of social-science researchers—shortly after turning sixteen.

...Another key difference in behavior, Regnerus reports, is that evangelical Protestant teen-agers are significantly less likely than other groups to use contraception. This could be because evangelicals are also among the most likely to believe that using contraception will send the message that they are looking for sex. It could also be because many evangelicals are steeped in the abstinence movement’s warnings that condoms won’t actually protect them from pregnancy or venereal disease. More provocatively, Regnerus found that only half of sexually active teen-agers who say that they seek guidance from God or the Scriptures when making a tough decision report using contraception every time. By contrast, sixty-nine per cent of sexually active youth who say that they most often follow the counsel of a parent or another trusted adult consistently use protection.

The gulf between sexual belief and sexual behavior becomes apparent, too, when you look at the outcomes of abstinence-pledge movements. Nationwide, according to a 2001 estimate, some two and a half million people have taken a pledge to remain celibate until marriage. Usually, they do so under the auspices of movements such as True Love Waits or the Silver Ring Thing. Sometimes, they make their vows at big rallies featuring Christian pop stars and laser light shows, or at purity balls, where girls in frothy dresses exchange rings with their fathers, who vow to help them remain virgins until the day they marry. More than half of those who take such pledges—which, unlike abstinence-only classes in public schools, are explicitly Christian—end up having sex before marriage, and not usually with their future spouse. ...Yet, according to the sociologists Peter Bearman, of Columbia University, and Hannah Brückner, of Yale, communities with high rates of pledging also have high rates of S.T.D.s. This could be because more teens pledge in communities where they perceive more danger from sex (in which case the pledge is doing some good); or it could be because fewer people in these communities use condoms when they break the pledge.

Teaching stupidity and hypocrisy does come at a high cost.

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