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A pastor in Memphis says no baptisms for babies born out of wedlock
A Baptist pastor in Memphis is taking a misguided stand against teen pregnancy by refusing to baptize babies born to unwed mothers.
Ralph White hopes to shame young men into marrying their baby mamas, by refusing to baptize their babies. It’s hard to see how this is supposed to work. Isn’t it the babies and mothers who are being punished here? I thought baptism had something to do with saving your eternal soul. Refusing it seems like a pretty harsh punishment for something your parents did (or didn’t do) before you were born.
The Rev. White isn’t really consigning little babies to the inferno if their parents won’t get hitched. He’s open to the possibility of doing the baptisms – just not in church. We need to make sure we don’t condone this kid’s behavior in front of people, you know. Or something.
She’s just like any other teen mom, that Bristol Palin. Working hard, loving harder, making choices between going to hockey games or a paycheck. She chooses the paycheck. She’s got bills! Don’t let the Carolina Herrera and Michael Kors gowns fool you.
Harper’s Bazaar’s interview with the daughter of the never-to-be vice president, Sarah Palin, hits newsstands June 1. We learn what’s it’s like to have your pregnancy outed on national TV (Totally sucked. She was 40 pounds “overweight”!), whether she’ll settle down (with the right guy, sure) and what she’d be doing if it weren’t for her son, Tripp (college, somewhere warm).
She also tells us the subject of her PowerPoint presentation in college speech class. Continue reading »
Few groups are as stigmatized in society as the teenage mother. And while studies show that children born to girls who are still essentially children themselves are at risk for just about every social problem out there, there are programs available that try to empower young women to break that cycle and create a better future for themselves and their children. Continue reading »
What teens won’t do for a little spending money! No, not THAT. In fact, the very opposite of THAT. A North Carolina program is paying teen girls to NOT get pregnant.
In addition to attending weekly meetings, the girls ages twelve to eighteen in the College-Bound Sisters are given a stipend of $1 a day to keep their legs closed. Continue reading »
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