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Abstinence pledge programs take a variety of stances on the role of religion in the pledge: some use religion to motivate the pledge, putting Biblical quotes on the cards, while others use statistics and arguments to motivate the pledge. Advocacy of virginity pledges is often coupled with support for abstinence-only sex education in public schools.
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a Murphy Temperance pledge card, carried by those who pledged to avoid liquor Francis Murphy (24 April 1836 – 30 June 1907) was an American temperance evangelist. Biography
The Catholic Total Abstinence Centennial Fountain in Fairmount Park was dedicated on 4 July 1876, following a parade of more than 5,000 and a Mass at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. [ 1 ] Catholic involvement in the temperance movement has been very strong since at least the nineteenth century, with a number of specifically Catholic ...
Chastity clubs in the United States emerged in the 1990s for adolescents (primarily girls) in elementary through high school. The rise of these clubs occurred alongside the rise of "purity culture" in the U.S. that promoted sexual chastity before marriage, including purity balls, sexual purity organizations, and government-funded abstinence-only sex education. [1]
The Jonas Brothers made an abstinence pledge through True Love Waits as teens. [30] The band and pledge are satirized in the 2009 South Park episode "The Ring". [31] In 2013, Morgan Lee, a journalist of The Christian Post, conducted an interview with Joe Jonas and wrote: [30]
The word is first recorded in 1832 in a general sense in an American source, and in 1833 in England in the context of abstinence. Since at first it was used in other contexts as an emphasised form of total, the tee-is presumably a reduplication of the first letter of total, much as contemporary idiom might say "total with a capital T". [4]
The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart (PTAA) is an international organisation for Catholic teetotalers that is based in Ireland. Its members are commonly called Pioneers . While the PTAA does not advocate prohibition , it does require of its members complete abstinence from alcoholic drink.