Sex Outside of Marriage is Death!

Wouldn’t you know it? The Christians are once again opposed to a wonderful new advancement in medicine. A vaccine, given to adolescents before they become sexually active, is proving effective in preventing cervical cancer (and genital warts). The religious opposition claims that giving this vaccine would be advocating children to become sexually active. They argue that abstinence should be viewed as the only form of protection against these kinds of health risks. This reasoning is so idiotic I’m not sure what to criticize about it first.

It’s obvious that kids will be having sex regardless of what their parents tell them to do. Depriving them of the vaccine is turning cervical cancer into a punishment for not practicing abstinence (how does one practice abstinence when it consists of inaction?) Of course, these people believe that sexually active people get STD’s because God is inflicting punishment on the sinners of the world. What I don’t understand is why anyone would want to devote their life to a God who tortures people with illness deliberately, and why they would prefer that their children die from a potential illness rather than protecting them against it.

According to Concerned Women for America, the only way to protect against God’s wrath of cervical cancer is to never have sex before or outside of a “mutually monogamous marriage”. Why is marriage is a requirement? The only requirement I can see is that both parties have to be free of infection. HPV could make this possible for everyone, and it is to be given before becoming sexually active, whether your kid has sex for the first time at 15 or 30 is of no consequence.

I think this vaccine should become an acceptable procedure for young adults and treated just like any other vaccine we give to kids. When you give your child a tetanus shot, you aren’t suggesting that he should go outside and step on a nail, you are protecting against the possibility. It could happen, and if it doesn’t, so much the better. If you’re a staunch Christian and you’ve raised your kids to believe that sex before marriage is out of the question, I really doubt a vaccine will influence your kids into sudden sexual rebellion. If Christians think recieving an injection will change their entire belief system, Christianity must be shakier than I thought.

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