Brain Fertilizer

Off the Cuff: I think that liberals do not so much encourage premarital sex as they cannot fully back-up any moral reason for not having sex.

That is to say they don't have the moral 'authority' since they're not inclined to be moral (by conservative standards) - you can't get anyone to back an opinion/position on something if their heart isn't in it.

Obviously, that's the more reasonable explanation...
But I find myself increasingly attracted to what may be merely a "tinfoil hat brigade"-style conspiracy theory:
If you teach abstinence and it is largely successful, it becomes much harder to justify the necessity of abortion-on-demand, because one of the main tear-jerking sob-stories they share is the desparate bereft teenager who will go into a backalley with a coat-hanger if they can't get a publicly-financed abortion without parental notification.
If you teach abstinence and it is largely successful, then you will most likely see a significant reduction in the Great Society welfare system that discourages young girls from aspiring to be more than baby factories to get their welfare check. (Yeah, welfare reform reduced that somewhat, but nowhere near the reduction you'd see if we instituted broad, comprehensive abstinence programs).
These are liberal constituencies, and while I'm absolutely certain no one has ever cynically decided to encourage their growth (I did say I thought it was happening unconsciously), liberals have been rewarded for coddling/encouraging these populations with votes, power, and funding. Rewards tend to increase behaviors...
(more in the next post)

Pursuit of sexual gratification is a human right (increase and multiply and all that), but it is not an absolute human right.

Yours,
Wince