P.O.V. - The Education of Shelby Knox | PBS

A self-described "good Southern Baptist girl," 15-year-old Shelby Knox of Lubbock, Texas has pledged abstinence until marriage. But she becomes an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex ed when she finds that Lubbock, where high schools teach abstinence as the only safe sex, has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the state.

We watched this last night on PBS.
So...Texas scares me big time. It was a great documentary and showed how this young girl broke free of the God, family country mentality in this Texas town.

While journeying and growing in her activism role, she'd have conversations with her pastor, A Hip-Christian Baptist (I think...self proclaimed...) minister.

He said these lines to her that just made me yell back at him through the TV screen.

"You're a mighty libral Christian. Librals and Christianity...Oil and Vinegar"
"Christianity is the most Intolerant religion in the world"

...Intolerant, huh? This guy's Christianity is definitely Intolerant! He reads the bible so much that he's screwed all the meaning up.

If you're Christian, you follow Christ, right? Christ is Jesus, right?
My Christianity taught me that Jesus taught and lived tolerance. He was tolerant of all people, and welcomed all people to Him.

Wow, the RED states....Scare me! They've been brain washed by their parents, their church, their president(not mine) AND they're now trying to brain wash their own children.

It's like their Christianity and their political party are their shield and they feel so invincible behind it, that they think they can push their viewpoint and their beliefs(which are not truely based on the bible) down the rest of the worlds' throats! They also think because they have that shield that nothing can hurt them or go array...Their children won't get pregnant till they're married, their children will never be gay, they'll be safe & protected not matter what they do or what they say.

Thank God there are people like Shelby Knox that are freeing themselves from that mentality and finding their own truth!

Here's the site for Point of View - POV I'm going to try to catch more of these documentaries

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posted by gian 6/24/2005 12:35:00 PM

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