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Article: With this ring ... No, it's not about weddings, exactly. It's about "purity rings," and the Christian-centered movement for teenagers to abstain from sex before marriage.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 3, 2001
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Kids today, huh? Tatoos and body piercing. Malls and MTV and Marilyn Manson.
Sex, of course, but sexual abstinence, too, in case you hadn't heard.
Too sustained to be dismissed, too far-reaching to be ignored, the largely Christian-based movement for teenagers to save their sexual passions for their future spouses has found a following in the generation born during and after the Reagan years. At ground zero is the True Love Waits concept, developed and fine-tuned by the Rev. Richard Ross, a Southern Baptist who has spent his life in youth ministry.
Like-minded teens sign pledge - or commitment - cards, promising to steer clear of sex until marriage. The first ...