Carter Says No to “Just Say No”

Sort of. Coming tomorrow in “On the Square”: Joe Carter reflects on the right way to teach teenagers about sex and sexual intimacy. He’s not much fonder of the “Just say no” approach as the “Just use a condom” one, and thinks they both fail in the same way.

Till that is posted, sometime in the night, you may want to revisit R. R. Reno’s Our Father Abraham , and look at the interesting discussion it started.

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