{"id":314288,"date":"2024-06-20T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=314288"},"modified":"2024-06-20T09:46:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:46:39","slug":"chastity-project-jason-evert-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chastity-project-jason-evert-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Chastity Project’s Jason Evert: ‘Chastity frees you to love’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an exclusive interview, Live Action president and founder Lila Rose spoke with Jason Evert, the founder of the Chastity Project<\/a> about the meaning and function of chastity and its effect on abortion.<\/p>\n

Evert created the Chastity Project after spending a few years participating in sidewalk counseling outside of abortion businesses in college. But he began to feel that he was focusing on the “supply of abortion” instead of the “demand” for abortion, which he realized was coming from “unchastity.”<\/p>\n

“And after three years of [sidewalk counseling], I really just felt late,” he explained. “…<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>I felt like, why am I meeting this woman 45 minutes before abortion? Why couldn’t I have<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>met her when she was 15 years old? Because maybe if she learned about chastity and real love, then<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>she never would have dated this guy to begin with and be in this difficult situation today.<\/span><\/span> So it almost felt like I was endlessly throwing sandbags on the banks of<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>a flooded river when there was a dam broken upstream a quarter mile. And I could sit here<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>for the rest of my natural life and throw sandbags, but it’s not going to change the flow of the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>traffic.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n