And the Award for the Most Successful Argument for Abstinence Goes To…

One person has made a case for abstinence better than anyone else, at least in making the case to young women.

The obvious winner is Levi Johnston. If you want to warn young women about the nasty side effects that can result from engaging in premarital sex, forget STDs and just tell them, “You may think your boyfriend is really sweet, but that’s what Bristol Palin thought.”

To write about Levi Johnston is a challenge. He could be called a parasite for his attempts to cash in on his relationship to Sarah Palin’s daughter with total and complete disregard for the welfare of his son and the ability to give his son something close to a normal life. However, Johnston’s conduct would cause some parasites to blush.

HoJohnston isn’t alone in this. He wouldn’t be able to do anything without the help of the media which has given a teenager with no moral character access to millions of people because of getting another teenager pregnant.

Without the media, Johnston might straighten up and become an average, ordinary, decent human being. However, the media attention makes that harder. Johnston may not be a college boy, but he knows how to play the national media like a harp, and he’ll continue to grab headlines from a media that has never ended its “anything goes” war on Sarah Palin.

In other notes:

• For once, its good to see an industry dying. In 1991, there were 2,200 facilities that did abortions. Today, that’s down to 713. No wonder the abortion lobby wants Obamacare dollars so bad.
• From Israel, a probably ineffective argument against abortion. The argument is that Israelis need to step up their fertility rates as the Jihadis continue to increase through natural means. I doubt women in a crisis pregnancy are thinking about is how their pregnancy will affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its very hard to convince people to choose fertility to secure national survival. Of course, this isn’t to say the argument is wrong, just ineffective Fact of the matter is that if birthrates remain constant, there probably won’t be an Israel in 40 years, regardless of what else develops in the conflict. (Hat Tip: Jill Stanek.)
• Speaking of Jihad, over at the U.N. a non-binding “defamation of religion” resolution backed by Islamic Countries passed at the U.N. General Assembly for the 5th Straight year but with shrinking support. This year’s resolution passed by an 80-61 margin as opposed to last year’s 86-53 margin. However, the Islamic countries are doubling down and Organization of Islamic Conference wants to get the resolution some teeth as “an optional protocol.” Charges of religious defamation and blasphemy are often used against Minority Christian in Majority Islamic countries as justification for persecution.
• Must read blog posts:

NCIS turns to Christian Bashing in apparent attempt to claim moral equivalence between Christianity and radical Islam.

John Hawkins makes a compelling argument that Gridlock is good. Money quote, “If, as a nation, we could simply go back and wipe every new law off the books for the last 10 years, on the whole, we would be better off as a country.”

Deal Hudson says that the Health Care debate will come down to who Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.) really is.

Pastor Eric Speckhard proposes a logical future step for the ELCA based on this year’s policy change on homosexuality. (Hat Tip: Crunchy Cons.)

• Good news item #1: A Christmas Miracle: A Colorado mother and baby were revived after the child was born “lifeless” and the mother went into cardiac arrest.
• Good news item #2: Intervarsity Christian fellowship is starting the “Human Wrongs Initiative” to fight the evils of child slavery.