PRO-FAMILY LEADERS IMPLORE UN TO AFFIRM MARRIAGE AND PROMOTE ABSTINENCE

Ugandan abstinence program has reduced new HIV infection rate by astonishing two-thirds from 1995 to 2000   NEW YORK, May 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The May 5 Washington Times reported on the efforts of 300 pro-family organization leaders at the New York World Congress of Families to influence delegates to the UN General Assembly’s Special Session on Children, which begins Wednesday.  Janet K. Museveni, the wife of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, said the UN should be promoting sexual abstinence to attack the African HIV and AIDS “pandemic” instead of providing millions of condoms to sexually active African youth and adults. She stated “The young person who has trained to be disciplined will, in the final analysis, survive better than the one who has been instructed to wear a piece of rubber and continue with ‘business as usual.’” The Times reported that Museveni told the conference that the country’s aggressive abstinence campaign, particularly among the youth, has reduced the rate of new HIV infections by an astonishing two-thirds from 1995 to 2000. This fact dramatically contradicts the cynical and close-minded establishment critics of abstinence who have ridiculed the concept as not being a realistic solution to the AIDS and other sexual behaviour caused crises.  Wade F. Horn, President Bush’s assistant secretary for children and families, said the United Nations should reaffirm marriage and sexual fidelity because “government ought to make it clear that government is in the business of promoting healthy marriages because it is an effective strategy for improving the well-being of children.”  Allan Carlson, director of the Rockford, Ill. Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society stated that “governments should take all   reasonable steps to treat motherhood as the most important of vocations and to ensure that the mother-child bond is given priority over short-term economic needs.”  The Times reported that The Heritage Foundation’s Patrick Fagan told the conference that Feminism and sexual promiscuity have caused “massive alienation of the sexes”. “The sexual has gone chaotic and at the center of the sexual is the child. The child has been rejected.” In European countries, high abortion rates and decisions by numerous couples not to marry and have children will reduce their populations 97 percent in four to five generations, Mr. Fagan said. “That is sexual suicide. And that is what the United Nations wants to bring onto the world. That is psychotic. It is suicidal,” he said.  See the Times article at   https://www.washtimes.com/national/20020505-31514864.htm