Dear Editor,

The Seventh-day Adventist church does not support the notion that condoms should be given to children. The issuing of condoms in school to protect our children against pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections is both immoral and harmful. Not only will it open the floodgate to promiscuity but the social, physical, emotional and spiritual problems cause by premarital sex can create irreparable damage to our children.

It is a fact that children throughout the centuries have experimented with sex and this generation is no exception. However, the answer is not condom, it is conduct. The church still stands on the Biblical platform on sex between a man and a woman within a marital relationship. We need to preach, teach and model this message to our young people and provide the necessary love and support for them. We cannot create a Corinthian society and expect all our children to live like Puritans. Our children need guidance and adults must provide if we are going to fix the ills that plague our society.

Dr Milton Gregory

Executive Secretary and Health Ministries Director,

Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists