Mrs. Betty Bowers:

Give me Abstinence – or Give Me Death!

Modern Republicans encourage unmarried girls to keep their legs crossed until they have wrangled a ring, expensive ceremony and tropical vacation out of a boy. Perhaps we should employ more Biblically authentic inducements for chastity.

For example, let a girl know that God's clever incentive program for abstinence involves having non-virgin wives killed by their alacritous neighbors. (Deuteronomy 22:13-21) I have a hunch this might encourage a young lady to muster an emphatic "no" more often than, say, simply offering a congratulatory citation on real parchment or a white polyblend t-shirt that says something vaguely encouraging about love waiting for jewelry.

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