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This idea that they can serve as investigators, judges juries theres no due process, neither for mr. strange, im sure had probably no right to have an attorney no right to call witnesses, nor do the accusers in these cases have the ability to call witness, have dna evidence presented. >> right. >> these cases should not be investigated by people on campuses. its just wrong. >> so josh what should a young man do now in college? i mean obviously the answer is complete abstinence. but what would yo...

>> when we visited iowa state penitentiary, we found the prison attempts to provide services for a wide range of religious beliefs. >> a lot of the religions are a quieting, mellowing, peaceful type of thing. for them to pray, to see god answer something is to have something answered is empowering. >> then we met an inmate named travis wolfkill. >> in the name of satan, ruler of the earth, the king of the world, i command the forces of darkness to bestow the infernal power upon me. >> im in a sa...

Penitentiary, we found the prison attempts to provide services for a wide range of religious beliefs. >> a lot of the religions are a quieting, mellowing, peaceful type of thing. for them to pray, to see god answer something is to have something answered is empowering. >> then we met an inmate named travis wolfkill. >> in the name of satan, ruler of the earth, the king of the world, i command the forces of darkness to bestow the infernal power upon me. >> im in a satanic group here. there are on...

Thing that has happened to them. its stipulated literally millions of people credit this program with turning their life around, okay? i want to stipulate that right? the second thing i think people get worried about questioning it. because they feel like it will essentially give excuses to people to do things they shouldnt do that would be self-destructive. the third thing i want to say is, as a policy matter we have a question about, is this the best thing for people to do particularly as you ...

In the single digits, under 10%. >> my understanding is that also the best guess for other alternatives is also rather low. the baseline that were dealing with when were talking about people in the groups of addiction, whether thats alcohol specifically or narcotics and other drugs, is were dealing with relatively low success rates. the question is, how do you define success. >> exactly. aa defines success with abstinence. thats the metric, thats the yardstick. a lot of people have a really hard...

And yes, it is concerning if the sponsor would advise that. ive not heard that. >> let me stipulate a few things here. im sure there are people watching this tearing their hair out. there are people in recovery and feel its the most incredible thing that has happened to them. its stipulated literally millions of people credit this program with turning their life around, okay? i want to stipulate that, right? the second thing i think people get worried about questioning it. because they feel like...

Particularly people who will have been in recovery and feel like its the most incredible thing thats ever happened to them. its stipulated literally millions of people credit this program with turning their life around, okay? i want to stipulate that, right? the second thing i think people get worried about questioning it. because they feel like it will essentially give excuses to people to do things they shouldnt do that would be self-destructive. the third thing i want to say is, as a policy m...

Faith cleansed me of my sins, and faith will see me through. thats all there is to it. >> when we visited iowa state penitentiary, we found the prison attempts to provide services for a wide range of religious beliefs. >> a lot of the religions are a quieting, mellowing, peaceful type of thing. for them to pray, to see god answer something is to have something answered is empowering. >> then we met an inmate named travis wolfkill. >> in the name of satan, ruler of the earth, the king of the worl...

I think part of the problem with this conversation is that birth control is not a controversy. it is a matter of life. for millions of women. i think whats amazing is that i teach about the history of girlhood in america, sex education is not a controversial issue until the past 15 years. so the abstinence only industrial complex and millions of dollars that has been made out of this industry, this is a new thing, right? so when i say that in 1930 our government took it upon itself to teach abou...

Isnt out there, so many confusing and conflicting messages out there. we have a crisis of sex education in this country. you know, only 22 states in the country that mandate sex education and of those only 12 require that the information is accurate. we have kids being taught abstinence only and we have a lot of people, even though they might know after 35 their fertility decreases they dont know how steeply and im guilty of that. i didnt know. you know, i didnt educate myself and nobody told me...