Campus Group at Princeton goes against the Flow of Immorality
"What's impressive about Princeton is that so many students have been involved in actively opposing the hook-up culture…"
Movies portraying college life as one big immoral party seem to propagate the dangerous idea that "everybody's doin' it." Certainly it's not true, even as Barna Research points out that there are many young people now that have "little exposure to traditional moral teaching and limited accountability for such behavior."
Even though advertising, as well as many other sources, seems to throw so many destructive ideals at our children; I know there are those who will stand against it. And, as my teenage son once so matter-of-factly pointed out, "The only way to be assured of not catching anything is not to do it!"
Recently, I was very thankful (and relieved) to learn that even on the campus of Princeton University—which must house some unflagging peer pressure at times—there is a group solely made of students who have chosen to remain abstinent.
In fact, according to one professor there, those opposing the "hook-up culture" are not rare at all, at Princeton. "Promiscuity is not a good way to live. It's not a healthy way to live," Professor Robert George said recently on the Glenn Beck Show. "It's not a morally healthy way to live. And the students here have been willing to make that argument…not only to their fellow students but to the administration."
The student-led group is called the Anscombe Society. A statement from their website should hearten moms and dads of the college-bound near and far, as it reads: The Anscombe Society believes in the inherent dignity of every human person. We, furthermore, look to what sociology, psychology, medicine, philosophy, theology, and human experience agree works for the good and health of the person and for the common good and flourishing of society. In this way we have been led to take stated positions on the family, marriage, sexual ethics, chastity, and sexuality. We believe that these positions protect human dignity, the individual and common good, and the healthy and flourishing society, for which all people must endeavor.
For more information on the Anscombe Society, CLICK HERE.
