Posted on 11/09/2010 5:47:34 AM PST by Stoutcat
Oh brother. Even Saturday Night Live, in its 70s-and-80s cocaine-fueled heyday never conceived of anything like this:
Having a safe Halloween took on a different meaning in one Oregon neighborhood, where trick-or-treating teenagers received condoms in their goodie bags.. Back in 1977, Beldar and Prymaat Conehead only gave out beer and fried eggs to the neighborhood kids at Halloween. Now people are handing out condoms.Daniel and Kathleen Harris, of Silverton, tell The Statesman Journal the free condoms were part of their effort to promote health. They also handed out toothbrushes as well as candy bars.
A lot sure has changed in 33 years.
People should sue them and make their life hell.
Sounds like they should be classified as sex offenders.
Sounds like they should get a congradulations for caring about people.
They should be shot by parents. Encouraging kids to have sex makes them no better than child nmolesters in my book.
disgusting behavior.
Shooting them might be a bit of an over-reaction. This is likely in a liberal town, where condoms routinely get handed out at school anyway.
But a group of calm, rational parents speaking to these two nincompoops and explaining why they don’t want their 14-year-old daughter to get condoms or a lecture about safe sex seems reasonable to me.
This couple is presuming to take the place of the kids' own parents in giving explicit sex advice. My advice to them is to shut the hell up and allow the kids' own parents to do their own parenting.
Passing out condoms properly falls under the rubric of parental sex education.
If these “well-intentioned” people want to educate their kids in this manner, then that's their right and responsibility (not that I agree with it).
It is exceedingly presumptuous to inflict (that is really the only proper word here) this type of bad-taste, no-class behavior on the parents of the children in question.
This gives the definition of “Trick or Treat” a whole new dimension.
Unfortunately.
These people are guilty, guilty, guilty of whatever the people of that town want to see them charged with!
CA....
While you and GeronL are both partly right, I think that they were trying to put a safety net on adolescent behavior. How many children will die from AIDS if someone doesn’t give them some form of protection. Not too long ago, we didn’t care if we got the clap, you could go to a doctor to get it taken care of, today it is not like that, your kids die. However, they should have acted with more common sense.
What are you on?
Life.
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