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Bad News, Good News.

Movie Guide, my newest bookmarked site, has two articles today that I found interesting. First, the bad news. According to a government study, some schools in England have stopped teaching about the Holocaust and the Crusades, for fear of offending their Muslim students.

The report added that, in dropping the Holocaust, teachers feared “anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils.”

Schools dropped the Crusades, including the reasons Christians wanted to take back the Holy Land, the report said, because a more truthful description of the Crusades “would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques.”

The good news is in the next article, which says that abstinence education has had a positive effect and the sexual activity statistics are not as horrific as we've been led to believe. There are a lot of encouraging statistics listed, but my favorite is:

The drop among teenagers under 17 has been even greater, from 38% in 1995 to 30% percent in 2003 among girls and 43% to 31% among boys. Thus, in fact, 70% of American teenagers under age 17 have NEVER been sexually active, despite the mass media of entertainment's corrupt culture of sex and violence.

The only question I would have is how this study defines sex. I know, in the wake of our great moral leader Mr. Clinton, that many teens don't consider other ... forms ... as sex.

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That's very disturbing about England.

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