Opening up about sex
The statistics, some evangelicals say, can no longer be ignored. Eighty percent of young evangelicals have engaged in premarital sex, according to a new video from the National Association of Evangelicals, and almost a third of evangelicals’ unplanned pregnancies end in abortion.
It’s time to speak honestly about sex because abstinence campaigns and antiabortion crusades often aren’t resonating in their own pews, evangelical leaders say.
In some instances, that discussion is beginning to happen: