Reply #270: Well, there is *some* common ground.

[Plaid Adder]

I have this much common ground with the pro-lifers: I figure the fewer abortions happen, the better off everyone is. So, we should promote birth control and sex education so people know what they're getting into when they...oh, whoops, I just left the common ground.

OK, I'll try this again. I have this much common ground with the pro-lifers: I think there are a lot of people out there having sex before they're emotionally ready for it because they don't understand what it's really going to mean to them, partly because our culture is obsessed with a particularly empty and shallow version of sexuality, and partly because they feel like there's something wrong with them if they're not sexually active by the time all their peers are. So we ought to try to educate people about the emotional and/or spiritual side of sexuality as well as the physical aspects of it, so that they will be in a better position to judge for themselves when they're ready to have it and with whom, and don't have to use some ridiculous litmus test like marriage...uh oh, now I'm off the common ground again.

Oh well, I tried,

The Plaid Adder