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So to sum up: we now live in a country where students at ostensibly Catholic universities testify on national television before Congress that they are freely engaging in pre-marital intercourse, and that the university’s failure to pay for their $100 per month contraception is severely cramping their style – as they pay on the order of $50,000 per year for the privilege of said education.
But Rick Santorum is considered kooky and extreme.
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Yup, that aboout sums it up, Paul Z.!
“that they are freely engaging in pre-marital intercourse, and that the university’s failure to pay for their $100 per month contraception”
Which would actually be closer to 9-20 dollars per month. Bad enough being an airhead with the morals of a shrew in heat, but a lying airhead with the morals of a shrew in heat is even worse!
Yeah, I thought the $1,000/year figure seemed a tad high.
And can I be a bit crude here? If we’re concerned about overall health, shouldn’t we be subsidizing condoms? After all, birth control pills don’t protect against STDs.
I imagine her parents are very, very proud. We should find them, and congratulate them as publicly as possible, in front of as many TV cameras and pod-cast i-Phones as can be found.
I wonder what other items are in these students’ “budgets”. I recall college… “poor” indeed, except when it comes to the party life.
How much you wanna bet that these self-absorbed brats who cannot afford rubbers have smart phones with robust texting plans.
I wrote on this as well, complete with facts, charts, powerpoint presentations and fancy blockquotes in red text.
OK, no charts or powerpoint presentations, but I did include a few facts and 2 fancy blockquotes in red text.
And of course, my usual style of commentary, such as:
“One thing is for certain – I won’t be seeking legal advice from any recently graduated Georgetown-educated lawyers. Ever. It appears the only thing they know about legal briefs are the ones they stripped off of a fellow student.”
Well done, LarryD. I’ve obviously been on twitter too much, thus my pithier post.
The Newman Society commissioned survey of some Catholic colleges found more Catholic college young women than men involved in pre marital sex 50% to 41% and less Catholic young women being drawn to the sacraments than men. Close ‘em up. Those are religious orders that could be missionizing in the third world where people skip meals instead of class. Go to the bottom of this link:
http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=dedestaca&id=1265&grupo=Think%20%20Learn&canal=Education
Not that it’s a high bar (rimshot!), but she’s waaaay too stupid to be a lawyer. If she’s having that much sex and not charging for it, she’s an idiot–she’d have even a Georgetown education paid off by now.
You crack me up, Dale, you truly do. And it’s with the truth, no less!
Here’s a pdf of Fluke’s testimony:
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/fluke.pdf
Now, Ms. Fluke talks about 3 people who need BC meds for non-sexual reasons – but that doesn’t explain 40% of the women at GLS. Unless there are only 7 female law students in attendance…
What staggers me is that these airheads expect everyone else to pay for their jollies.
I think this is even too bizzare for George Orwell to have predicted isn’t it?
Their god is in their groins.
Thank God I only have sons.
With marriage so devalued and convenient what is surprising about this?
Karl-
I suspect marriage is devalued for the same reason that this happens, rather than being the cause of it happening. It’s possible that “free love” devalued marriage, as well…. Virtue is devalued, especially if you’re of the class that can expect to go to college as a baseline expectation.
I have no trouble accepting, on an intellectual level, the evil of contraception. But the emotional part of me really does not want people like this young woman to succeed in producing offspring.
Incidentally: condoms to not offer much protection against STDs, espcially things like genitals warts.
I could not afford anything but a “state school” back in the early 70′s when I attended the University of Buffalo. Loose sex was everywhere. I hope no one kids themselves into thinking this is a recent phenomenon.
By some miracle, I do mean miracle, I got through college without being sexually active but it was all around me. I once “slept” through my nearly orthodox jewish roomate and his girlfriend/future wife, making love. It was quite an experience. I remember staying up all night with a young woman, simply talking. This was after she had been invited to stay with a guy who offered to give her a room to stay in while she visited the school as a potential student. The guy was a suite mate of mine. I found the young girl sitting sad-faced nearly in tears in the common area outside of our rooms, late one friday evening. She told me he had ordered her to get out, with no place to go for the weekend to sleep, unless she would succumb to his charms. She was very broken up and knew know one at the school except my lecherous “friend”, but I was able to gain her confidence and asked a female classmate to help her out. Fortunately, I had gone to high school with this classmate and she kindly shared her room with this girl for the remainder of her visit.
These kids, today, face these temptations, everyday. I am grateful to be old enough to be their, almost, grandfather. Even at 57, the temptation is ever present, living as a single man in a world of “hooking up”. I guess that is what it is called these days.
I truly do not know how I got through my college years without such reckless behavior because I was always on its threshold. I had drifted away from my active Catholicism but retained the moral structure without paying much mind to God. When I reflect upon it, I must have a very wonderful Guardian Angel whom I probably just about wore out.
I think things are much more “immediate” for young people today. I once got my glasses slapped off my face and into the backseat of my 1967 Plymouth Fury, for refusing to continue with the “gymnastics” I was involved in, in the front seat. I gently told the young lady I had met earlier in the evening(I was 19) that it was not “right” for us to proceed any further and that I did not want either her, nor I, to regret it later.
POW, right in the face!
I still laugh when I recall the incident. I was so naive. But I am glad that I was, even though that young lady never spoke another word to me.
My point is, it is not easy to remain chaste. I am convinced, in my own case, that I was “protected” from what I still cannot believe I did not do. If that makes any sense. I would NOT want to be young now. Nothing of a sexual nature truly surprises me anymore.
I do not deceive myself into thinking that I am “beyond” falling “off the wagon”. It is only
a heartbeat away, but for the grace of God. How much more difficult it must be for younger people. May God help them.
Karl
Karl
From time to time, I speak of these incidents to an occasional young person and I wonder if they think I am just making it up for their behalf.
Higher education to become tomorrow’s leaders and shape the world …
Wonder if the professor offered college credit for the experience of debasing herself, her family, and her Catholic school and so, Church?
Educating the brain must be a challenge when it’s located below the neck.
Temptation, repentance, conversion of heart, renewal of spirit, reverence, and holiness will become futuristic courses taught by the desensitized as electives, or just become extra credit papers.
AC/DC: “On the highway to Hell.”
Remember, these contraceptives that are so expensive will be added to insurance plans ‘for free’ so that there is no financial impact to the university. Really, no one will be paying for it, it’s nothing…
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/28/georgetown-co-ed-please-pay-for-us-to-have-sex-were-going-broke-buying-birth-control/
The comments by “Ibanez Lotus” and “Mike O’Malley” are priceless.
“Friendly21″ as well.
More humor.
http://thehayride.com/2012/02/for-a-good-time-in-georgetown-call-this-young-lady/