[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 119 (Saturday, August 20, 1994)]
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    SEXUAL ABSTINENCE FOR UNWED TEENS WILL LEAD TO A STABLE AMERICA

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I urge all my colleagues to read Colman 
McCarthy's column in today's Post. He describes a remarkable campaign, 
a wonderful and very elevating campaign, organized originally some 16 
months ago in the Walnut Grove Baptist Church in Nashville, TN, by 59 
teenagers and their youth minister, in which they pledge that they 
would remain chaste, they would abstain from sex, until they were 
married. And they have moved this new theory, I guess you would say, a 
new old theory, around the country, so that some 20,000 youngsters 
showed up on the Mall here just a few days ago to plant on the Mall 
itself 211 signatures to the same kind of pledge.
  In an age of hedonism, in an age of self-centeredness, in an age of 
pleasure first, Mr. Speaker, it is remarkable and very courageous for 
these young people to go against that flow, to stand up for abstinence, 
to stand up for purity, to stand up for chastity, against all of the 
seeming mores.
  I would commend those 59 youngsters and their youth minister in the 
Walnut Grove Baptist Church for having started what I hope is a 
national trend of moving people away from self-gratification today for 
the longer term beauty and wonder of a solid stable America for the 
future.

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