The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

As reported in the MTV blog, Hollywood is making a movie adaption of the book The Abstinence Teacher.  They have even tentatively recruited famous actors Steve Carell and Sandra Bullock to star in leading roles. 

Making a movie about this awful book shows how threatened Hollywood is by the abstinence world-view.  How many of you have read this book?  A sex education teacher makes fun of the abstinence-until-marriage folks.  So many times people take something good and distort it – which is what the author of this book has done.  Abstinence-until-marriage should be the standard as it is both physically and emotionally healthier.  Yet for decades, Hollywood has tried to push a liberal world-view onto generations of people.  Actors become role models for our youth.  People fall for it and begin to justify their actions.  Here we are today with a push for an anything goes society.

This liberal ‘anything goes’ world-view has lead to depression, high suicide rates, increase in STDs and teen pregnancy, alcoholism, drug abuse, emotional brokenness and death. 

Well, there is something that we can do.  Don’t buy into it.  Refuse to see these movies or watch these TV shows that promote this liberal world-view.  Teach your children to value high standards and have dignity.  Let’s push back. 

Movieguide reported recently how surprised Hollywood was when big blockbuster movies did not take in the projected ticket sales and in contrast family movies like Toy Story and Karate Kid far exceeded expected sales.  Let’s continue this trend.  Demand more family movies.  Write to TV stations and tell them to raise the bar in their programming.

I heard a teen recently say “MTV treats us like we are dogs in heat, but we have news for them – we are not.”  Let’s give our children better than MTV.  We are not desperate housewives.