Even Evangelical Teens Do It...

this article popped up awhile ago...but is worth re-visiting. From Slate ~ Even Evangelical Teens Do It-How religious beliefs do, and don't, influence sexual behavior...

The results play out in the usual 19^th-century way. When evangelical parents say they talk to their kids about sex, they mean the morals, not the mechanics. In a quiz on pregnancy and health risks associated with sex, evangelicals scored very low. Evangelical teens don't accept themselves as people who will have sex until they've already had it. As a result, abstinence pledgers are considerably less likely than nonpledgers to use birth control the first time they have sex. "It just sort of happened," one girl told the researchers, in what could be a motto for this generation of evangelical teens.

Its all based on a book entitled Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers by Mark Regnerus. Go here to read the rest of the story