Red-State Teens And Forbidden Fruit

“The vast majority of white evangelical adolescents – seventy-four per cent – say that they believe in abstaining from sex before marriage. (Only half of mainline Protestants, and a quarter of Jews, say that they believe in abstinence.) … [But] evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews.” They’re less likely to use contraception as well. Why?