The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Thousands of university students will hear that only abstinence until marriage provides 100 percent protection against sexually transmitted diseases, unexpected pregnancy, and heartache. Ms. Unruh is visiting Taiwan at the request of Fu Jen Catholic University, affiliates of the Abstinence Clearinghouse.
While in Taipei, Ms. Unruh has had the opportunity to address several governmental leaders. […]

THE 12 STEPS TO BONDING
1. Eye to Body – Not a sexual look. Aha-wow! Where have you been? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Eros is blind.
2. Eye to Eye – Always feel when two people are experiencing ‘magic’. They look at each other. Can turn a person around by looking at […]

One may be better than his reputation but never better than his principles.

When a person sells principles for popularity, he is soon bankrupt.

[Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Mail Update, 11/10/05]
40 percent of pornography users are molesters, a recent study released by the New Hampshire Crimes Against Children Research Center found. The report was based on interviews with police investigators.
“We have never found one case of child sexual abuse where the predator did not use or have in his possession […]

A person without principles in one area will doubtless have principles in another.

A man is never better than his principles.

Leslee was quoted in the Denver Post. Her quote is listed below.
“There’s a counterrevolution going on,” says Leslee Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse, an advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. Abstinence groups began forming largely in middle schools and high schools in the 1990s, but now there “is and explosion in colleges.”
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A new documentary on the spread of abstinence education aired in France last week. Documentary writer and producer Diego Bunuel did much of his research last spring, spending dozens of hours filming the work of the Abstinence Clearinghouse. E-mails are already flooding into the Clearinghouse asking for more information about abstinence education and […]

At least a dozen AIDS activists tasted jail life after trespassing on the property of the Family Research Council this week. Dressed as life-size condoms, the perpetrators chained themselves to lobby furniture in an apparent demonstration against the FRC’s support of abstinence education.
This protest follows on the heels of two similar events – a […]

“The question is not whether abstinence works. The question before us….is what are the best strategies to help young people make that choice.”

When it comes to a solid principle, it’s better to be a hardtop than a convertable.

The person with small principles draws small interest.

Note that in 2004 Housing Works also staged a protest of the CDC AIDS conference. Mark Souder looked into their federal funding and found they received 1.9 million in federal dollars. They are AIDS activists pure and simple and go anywhere to protest.
An anti-Bush demonstration this week at a conference […]

Washington: Yesterday, during the “Strengthening Programs Through Scientific Evaluation” conference, hosted by the Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs and Administration for Children and Families, safe sex advocates stormed the stage and physically accosted Deputy Assistant to the President, Claude Allen.
While abstinence education proponents maintained a professional environment, Allen was aggressively overcrowded as […]

It’s never right to do wrong, and it’s never wrong to do right.

It’s funny that some “abstinence educators” are in this business for the wrong reasons,the money. I say it’s funny because if contraceptive education is being funded 12:1 in relation to abstinence education, you’d think they would just go for the contraceptive education.
Instead, they write grants for abstinence funding and promote birth […]

“How would you spread the message of abstinence among your peers?” That’s the question being asked by Project Reality (an abstinence organization based in Illinois) in their 3rd annual essay contest. Any Illinois teen between the ages of 13 and 18 may enter the contest by submitting a 500 words or less essay […]