{"id":97522,"date":"2026-08-25T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=97522"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:49:35","slug":"safe-sex-a-message-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/safe-sex-a-message-of-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Sex: A Message of Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Floyd Chappelear
\nvia\u00a0Sentry Magazine<\/em>, Vol. 22 No. 1, March 1996\n

Humanistic social planners are promoting the concept of “Safe Sex” (i.e., condom use) for America. Such is a course of madness for a number of reasons. Consider:<\/p>\n

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  1. Condoms have a remarkably high failure rate in preventing life (pregnancy); only the most uninformed think they will better prevent death from AIDS.<\/li>\n
  2. In the past few years since “Safe Sex” has been promoted, the number of AIDS cases has grown, in spite of the fact that the “preventative” has been used increasingly. (Several problems here: Improper use, breakage, and failure to use in the heat of passion.)<\/li>\n
  3. Sperm will not, but the AIDS virus will pass through the intrinsic holes in any latex device.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What we need is a good dose of “flee fornication<\/em>” (I Corinthians 6:19). In other words, a return to Bible morality.<\/p>\n

    Also, we must not forget that the promoters of “Safe Sex” are the same ones who have promoted sex education in the schools. We were told that increased immorality-based sex education would result in fewer teen pregnancies. What has happened? The number of pregnant teens soars as valueless sex education classes increase. The same will be true of the spread of AIDS. The only ones who need “safe sex” warnings are those who have no business engaging in sex. When one promotes it, one will see it increase, with the attendant heartbreak. Humanists have always wanted to promote fornication without guilt; now they want to promote it without fear. The result will be more sin-stained lives and an increased spread of AIDS.<\/p>\n

    “Don’t be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap<\/em>” (Galatians 6:7).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    by Floyd Chappelear via\u00a0Sentry Magazine, Vol. 22 No. 1, March 1996 Humanistic social planners are promoting the concept of “Safe Sex” (i.e., condom use) for America. Such is a course of madness for a number of reasons. Consider: Condoms have a remarkably high failure rate in preventing life (pregnancy); only the most uninformed think they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[1572,63,637],"class_list":["post-97522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fornication","tag-sex","tag-sex-education"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88622,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolf\/","url_meta":{"origin":97522,"position":0},"title":"Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Alan Williamson via\u00a0Sentry Magazine, Vol. 17 No. 4, 31 December 1991 In this case: Who's afraid of the AIDS virus? 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