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Another reason I will never live in any other state than CA

I was reading an article from Sierra magazine while I was working. I've been training which basically entails me sitting with our new people and answering any questions that they have. So when they don't have questions, I have nothing to do. Luckily, another trainer left a couple magazines. Anyway I was reading this article titled "Why Bush's Sex-Ed Policy Doesn't Work." Nothing I read was really a surprise to me....I was basically aware of everything they discussed but the republican ass in charge of the abstinence program had a couple ridiculous quotes in the article so I thought I would share.

So the federal governement has given over half a billion dollars for abstinence-only sex education since 1996. Abstinence-only sex ed is absurd....but anyway. The schools are required to promote abstinence until marriage, contraceptives are only discussed in terms of failure rates, and instructors are not allowed to tell students how to reduce the risk of disease and pregnancy if they are sexually active. The part that pisses me off is that they integrate god and morality into the programs. Public schools are supposed to provide an education based on science not a religious education. If parents want their children to receive sex ed from a religious standpoint they should send them to a religious school or take them to church.

ok.....absurd quotes from ass named Dan Richey....Louisiana director for abstinence. "Bottom-line: When you're dealing with teenagers, the more sex information you give, the more sex you get." "Abstinence-only sex ed is less about health and more about a "cultural battle" in which promiscuity and reproductive freedom (which Richey calls "code for abortion") are pitted against patriotism, a determination to re-criminalize abortion, and fear of god." Quote from a video showed in a federally funded program "god covers us like an umbrella when it rains, but sex before marriage puts us outside the umbrella where god can't help us." I almost wish I had a child in a school in Louisana so I could sue.

Bright side......California is the only state not to accept money for abstinence-only sex ed programs. Why is it that Ca is the only intelligent state in the U.S.?

Posted by Tonya at January 8, 2004 1:46 PM | TrackBack