THEIST_WATCH
  Msg  : 57                                         Written : 08/02/94 03:47pm
  From : ROBIN MURRAY-O'HAIR                        Status  :                 
  To   : ALL                                                                  
  Subj : True Love Waits                                                      

                         True Love Waits
     Naturally, it was not a teenage group which started the idea. It
was white male Baptist who heads the Baptist Sunday School Board and
"Youth for Christ."
     It all began when, in March of 1993, he conned fifty-nine teens at
his Tulip Grove Baptist Church in Nashville, TN, to take "a vow of
chastity until marriage." Naturally, there was no mention of
masturbation. But in the intervening year he has spread his message as
far and as fast as the Baptist Sunday School Board could reach.
     Why do they always go after the poor, the illiterate, the
impressionable? By July 29 when the reverend called for a display in
the mall in Washington, D.C. he was able to there announce that on the
same day 6,000 teenagers in Uganda would be meeting for a rally in that
country. Our good neighbors in Canada were also allegedly meeting.
     The reverend claims that 150 nations were actively involved in
organizing True Love Waits campaigns for teenagers, probably in Rwanda,
Bosnia, Herzegovina, Jericho and other East Bank settlements, as well
as in Bangladesh, Algeria, and Haiti.
     For his own effort, he had teenagers hammer 211,163 little stakes
holding cards into the grass on the National Mall. To each little stake
there was affixed a signed card by youths pledging abstinence. The
printed cards read:

              Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to
         God, myself, my family, those I date, my future mate and my
         future children to be sexually pure until the day I enter
         marriage.

     The young women wore "chastity pledge rings" which resembled gold
wedding bands. The rings are supposed to be delivered to husbands on
wedding nights. The young men in town for the occasion simply ogled all
the women in the park wearing shorts.
     About 150 representatives of the group went to the White House to
exuberantly tell President Clinton that they were waiting for "True
Love and Marriage." President Clinton in his half-hour meeting with
them, smiled broadly, kept his zipper up, and did not mention Paula
Jones.


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