by Chris Alexion, Copyright March 31, 2006, all rights reserved. 349 views
Today, no conscientious parent wants her or his child to follow a sexual credo of, "If it feels good, do it." Sex still carries some enormous risks, as it always has, for people of any age. But to allow the federal government to use taxpayers' money to preach that there is only one path to positive, healthy sexuality is to publicly fund a lie. (Stephanie Salter, "Big Government preaches there's one kind of good sex," reprinted in the Delaware News Journal, March 24, 2002)
Special pleading is a gap in logic that lets you do something your opponents can't. Here Salter attacks abstinence education because it limits the "path to positive, healthy sexuality." But Salter, rejecting the "if it feels good, do it" ethic, is willing to make her own limitations. On what basis does she make this distinction?
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