Charles Johnson recently alerted me to the "Condom Carnival" taking place this weekend at Pomona's Walker Beach, sponsored by VOX. VOX is a student mouthpiece for Planned Parenthood operating on the Claremont Colleges. If the event's flier (pictured right) is any indication, there is much for denizens of the Claremont Colleges to be concerned about.
The basic concept for the event is troubling in its juxtaposition of two elements that should never mix: condoms and carnivals. A carnival is typically an event meant to entertain children. But sex and condoms should be the domain of mature adults. The implicit message that VOX is sending is that you can mix children and sex and expect a "safe" and "happy" outcome. VOX's "Condom Carnival" encourages a childish approach to sex and declares that sexual intercourse shall now be as common and inconsequential as cotton candy and merry-go-rounds. The mark of the pervert is the destruction of the basic categories of human beings: male and female, adult and child. This is not surprising coming from VOX--they are a mouthpiece for Planned Parenthood, which has recently been documented covering up statutory rape.
Not only is this message demeaning and infantilizing to college students who deserve to be treated like mature adults, but it is dangerously cavalier and irreverent. VOX's actions say: sex = Six Flags. No big deal. I want to eat lunch with you, I want to the movies with you, I want to play tennis with you, I want to have sex with you. No big deal, all in the same breath. It is no wonder that UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossmer can lament, "We are losing the war on sexually transmitted diseases and depression on campus." The VOX-Planned Parenthood dogma that places all faith and security in a piece of rubber has been tried and failed. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood's own research arm, reports that over 50% of women who submit to abortions used a contraceptive. The fruits of the VOX-Planned Parenthood model are more sickness and more sadness.
Meanwhile, VOX received at least $1350 in club funding from 5C student governments this year. It is almost certain that the "Condom Carnival," as other VOX activities, is being paid for with 5C money. Pomona ponied-up $600 this year alone, the most of any of the 5Cs. Pomona also sponsors an advocacy internship with Planned Parenthood's local arm in Los Angeles. This is the same Planned Parenthood that was founded on eugenic principles and implements them to this day in its practical policies.
It is no wonder that VOX, the Planned Parenthood mouthpiece, has since the start of this year refused to debate Live Action publicly. With a background as sordid as theirs, who would want to lay the facts on the table?
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On the eve of 5C club funding hearings for 2008-2009, I'm confused and maybe annoyed by your hypocrisy in regards to club funding.
Your club, Live Action, received money from the ASCMC for a "Subsidy for fetal development models." Yet you bemoan the funding given to VOX, another campus organization with an opposing viewpoint.
Is your contention that only a club whose mission YOU agree with should receive money? What exactly are you trying to suggest?
Josh,
I'm not criticizing the VOX funding because I disagree with their viewpoint. There are many 5C funded clubs that I disagree with. I am criticizing the VOX funding because VOX is a mouthpiece of Planned Parenthood, an organization founded on racist, eugenic principles and which continues to operate on these principles in its practical policies to this day. I would contend that the 5Cs should not subsidize the mouthpieces of racially discriminatory organizations.
--David
I think that a meager $100 or so that David asked for compared to the $1300+ that Planned Parenthood received is indicative of how out of wack our priorities are on the campuses.
That David had to ask for money to show people that a life begins at conception -- a fact that is biologically true -- is I think, indicative of the poverty of the debate.
Moreover, I think even those on the campuses who engage in committed heterosexual, monogamous relationships might have more than a bit of a problem with Vox's encouragement of promiscuity.
Its not as if they are even trying to hide their flagrant promiscuity. Their T-Shirts say "Kiss me, I'm pro-choice." Perhaps we should demand that their next batch say, "**** me, I'm pro-choice." After all, isn't that what they really mean?
Let me get this straight: Pomona College suspends the singning of a song with no racist lyrics because of the context in which the song was written, yet it has no problem supporting an organization steeped in racialist context.
Am I missing something?
I think you're twisting the facts a bit here:
Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use
The people who became pregnant were, for the most part, not properly using their preferred method of contraception. The statistic is more revealing of peoples' inability to consistently and correctly use contraception, not the efficacy of the methods.
To illustrate my point: a woman who used a condom once during a month but had sex every day and became pregnant used a condom 3.3% of the time. She would be included as a condom user seeking an abortion, even though in reality she was doing little to prevent pregnancy.
Coupled with the fact that less than 20% of the people in this category reported proper use is another indication that human error is more to blame for failed contraceptive practice than the methods themselves.
Lest we forget, the ACLU was also founded by anarchists, socialists, and those bent on eugenics as well (check out their wikipedia page if you dont believe), not to mention the founders of Planned Parenthood. While I support some of the things the ACLU does, I find its focus on freeing us FROM religion instead of focusing on allowing people to be free in their PRACTICE of religion quite misguided. And they're even better than Planned Parenthood, for whom I cannot say much good on behalf of.
I think you're the one twisting the facts, "gracchus," since you insist on separating human action from contraceptive methods. The two go hand in hand--it is people, yes, fallible people, who are using the contraceptive methods that Planned Parenthood provides. They are peddled these devices under the deceptive meme of "safety" and are then surprised when, inevitably, there are some rips and slips and they get pregnant "by accident". And the solution is to trot down to the local Planned Parenthood and fork over $450 to buy an abortion. Yes, Planned Parenthood has a devilishly clever business model.
HAHA at least this blog is good for the occasional laugh. Listen, if public conversation or encouragement of contraception makes you uncomfortable (which we both know is your real problem with "Condom Carnival"), then you don't have to attend the event. However, I find it interesting that conservatives like you oppose the public encouragement of contraception on some vague moral high ground while also holding your noses up at women who choose to have abortions.
Shouldn't you all be out there trumpeting habitual contraception use in order to reduce the number of people staring down the barrel of a possible abortion (which you social conservatives consider to be murder), not to mention STD transmission? Yet, many on your side are constantly trying to undermine safe-sex education efforts...why? Is it a religious thing or does talking about sexual issues just make you squirm?
Are you seriously accusing Planned Parenthood of intentionally distributing weak condoms to earn a profit when they fail?
Hi Anonymous,
I wish I could address you by name. You seem pretty good at diagnosing my sex-phobia, maybe you could do the same for your own fear of owning up to your comments nominally?
Listen, condoms don't shock me. Materialistic student groups celebrating condoms don't shock me. I went to public school; I've been around them since 8th grade. But I am shocked and outraged by the blindness such groups promote and perpetuate toward the misery that sexual-free-for-all ("Condom Carnival") ideology has plunged us into.
I don't take the positions I do because sex makes me queasy. I argue and advocate the way I do because watching human beings destroy themselves, watching a humanity at war with itself, makes me heartbroken. The idea that I "hold my nose up" at women who submit to abortion is despicable. I get up at 7:30 every Friday morning to help these women when the rest of our society has rejected them. And the dead, hopeless look in their eyes as they walk through those sterile clinic doors to submit to the abortionist is more powerful than any of the myriad data I could cite to you to show that abortion is not the solution.
On Planned Parenthood's business tactics--you must admit that they have a vested financial interest in failed contraceptives. We have reason to be skeptical.
--David
That's a rather large accusation to make without offering a shred of evidence.
Ahahahaha, I think Claremont Conservative affiliates have been caught taking those "free handouts" that it usually speaks so vehemently against
Where's your evidence on that one?
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