Hundreds of virgins gathered in the Ugandan capital on Friday to meet the country's first lady and renew their pledges to abstain from premarital sex.
And they aren't blind to what went on and what worked and what did not work where the number of young adults has diminished greatly impacting their country and economy.
"You can sense the cynicism and animosity," he told Reuters. "We are promoting abstinence because Uganda is under attack from an agenda driven by homosexuals and Western experts who are out of touch with how the AIDS epidemic is driven in Africa."
If this keeps up, they may actually save their own country. And it doesn't have to be a religious-driven issue when it can be a morally-driven issue.
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Yes, abstaining from exchaning bodily fluids are not religious motivated. It is more of moral motivated because one could be an atheist and still have morals (applying the ABC's as well). One could be hypocritcally religious and have zero morals.
I've heard the ABC program is truly effective. I only would like Americans to apply that kind of methods, which is highly unlikely to happen overnight because Americans are too sexualized these days.
Again, you don't get it, McConnell.
I personally think ABCD works in Uganda but the problem is homophobia. In fact, there were safe sex workshops to teach men who are promiscuous and goes both ways ... and they were raided by the government because the government felt that they were PROMOTING homosexuality.
It was not. It was to protect themselves REGARDLESS if they are gay or straight or abstinent.
Right now, Uganda is not saving itself. It is killing itself using double-edged sword -- supporting the ABCDs but deny people to teach each other how to protect in case if they do not abstain!
See? You need to get educated. But no, you won't permit me to win the argument. You will find a way to derail me as usual.
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You're babbling Ridor. Sometimes abstinence is the only corrective course (actually it is THE only corrective course of ation) of action left in some countries when education on condoms and birth control measures have not had an drastic enough impact. It is the social stigma and cultural differences that can either make it more successful or not. If you repeat it often enough people will hear it. Not bringing up abstinence is inviting disaster.
Babbling?
You chose not to address the issue that I talked about raids that was being done by the Ugandan government -- they cannot promote anything if they raid anything that associated with safe sex.
Abstinence will work if people continue to reason. But people in AFrica are not you. You are unreasonable, they are.
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You're babbling again, R. I said that sometimes it'll have to take abstinence as a corrective measure to an already ravaged country whose economies are dependent on young and healthy people. Sometimes extreme measures must be taken to assure to help stabilize and already unstable country with declining population. What I don't necessarily agree with Uganda is the religious fervor behind it when it is really about the moral decline and that promoting abstinence is what it is. The prevention and transferences of diseases and illigitimate births. Like I said, what they're doing is probably saving their lives and the livlihood of their country.
Take it for what you want. When things get dicey, you nip it in the bud. That's what Uganda is trying to do.
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