Dear Senator Obama,
I feel compelled to write and share some VITAL information with you, I have personally been gathering research for the last ten years on the benefits of directing youth to the healthy, responsible MORAL directive of abstinence education, particularly highlighting the GREAT reductions in MANY social ills directly linked to youth choosing to engage in hetero/homosexual sexual activity outside of the 4000+ year-old tradition of MARRIAGE! I hope you will take some time to review the data, as there is GREAT news on the reduction of teen sexual activity and other social ills like STDs and fatherless households, since we began funding this healthy responsible directive in 1996—the decreases for black youth are especially hopeful! We are now seeing the dramatic results, (summary enclosed), and I also am hoping that your organization will join the abstinence advocates in this country who want EVERY American child to have access to this healthy responsible directive, so that we continue to see dramatic reductions in all of these social ills.
I am sending you MUCH of the research—most from our own CDC and the U.S. Census Bureau, and an abstinence educator for the last ten years, and was honored to write a chapter in a social ethics text (summary article enclosed) which details the HIGH disparities in social ills, particularly devastating blacks and other minorities, including rates of poverty, rates of STDs, abortion rates, as well as the devastation to youth in fatherless homes—with increased rates of criminal behavior, drug and alcohol abuse, school drop out rates, and increasing pre-term labor and infant mortality rates as well as many other devastating statistics like emotional rates of depression and suicide rates. I hope you agree that directing ALL American youth to the HIGH expectation of abstinence education is the social IDEAL that would greatly reduce all of these ills—we have been teaching ALL youth to abstain from drugs, alcohol, and smoking, but especially it is time NOW to direct ALL American youth to abstain from sexual activity as there are MANY more negative consequences related to that ONE behavioral choice!
