Posted on 11/12/2021 8:17:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s official: Vermont has made history.
As reported by WCAX, the Green Mountain State has become the first to give condoms to preteens.
Last year, Gov. Phil Scott signed into law a measure mandating that public schools make condoms available for their students.
The initiative includes 7th graders, who — excepting situations of double promotion — may be as young as 12.
In addition to dispensing such accessories for oral, vaginal, and anal sex, schools are required to give kids information on how to properly employ them.
As noted by South Burlington’s CBS3, the distribution and instruction will be “inclusive of gender identity, sexuality and ethnicity.”
And who’s footing the bill? In Vermont’s case, the prophylactics will be provided by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.
Though signed in 2020, the program didn’t go into effect ’til July.
Statute 16 V.S.A. § 132 reads thusly:
In order to prevent or reduce unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, each school district shall make condoms available to all students in its secondary schools, free of charge. School district administrative teams, in consultation with school district nursing staff, shall determine the best manner in which to make condoms available to students. At a minimum, condoms shall be placed in locations that are safe and readily accessible to students, including the school nurse’s office.
As noted by the New York Post, in passing the above, the home of Bernie Sanders became the first in America “to require all public middle and high schools to give students access to free condoms.”
Per the outlet, Vermont’s move followed its 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Assessment finding 40 percent of high schoolers were sexually active.
Also indicated: Only half of those were using condoms.
Will the free accessories alter the rate of preventative application?
Whether yes or no, I can’t help but believe it’ll also bolster the other metric.
Either way, the new law is certainly no surprise.
There once was a time — a very long time, by the way — when virtue and morality involved behavior. These days, virtue is something you exercise via hashtags.
The real-world practice of restrained lifestyle choices looks to have lost its luster.
And it’s no wonder — we’ve lost our religion, therefore abandoning our moral compass.
And with faith goes purpose. Anymore, nothing seems to mean anything.
That applies to the words we speak as well as the things we do.
Furthermore, childhood and innocence were once prized. But the kids have grown up: If elementary schoolers are old enough to choose their gender identity with chemical and surgical alterations impending, adult sexual decisions such as those concerning intercourse are surely just around the bend.
Back to innocence, we were better off before.
There is a hole in the heart of America.
And we don’t appear poised to see it filled:
Because Of Course: Harvard's New Head Chaplain Is an Atheist https://t.co/sy4N5O9EZS
— RedState (@RedState) August 28, 2021
Sign of the Times: Biden Heralds Our National Day of Prayer, Doesn't Mention God https://t.co/4rC86UsbxB
— RedState (@RedState) May 8, 2021
Could that change?
Of course.
Atheism is Now America’s Largest Religion. How Do We Return to a Nation Under God? Here’s a Start. https://t.co/8dJ1rWZnlO
— RedState (@RedState) April 8, 2019
But in the meantime, in Vermont — whatever else is happening in schools — sex education is alive and well.
Not as thriving as it used to be: the idea that kids shouldn’t be having sex.
Phil Scott, incidentally, is a Republican.
-ALEX
What the hell do they have against 9 year olds? They’re people too. /sarc
They should distribute government-approved marijuana to these same students, as recreational use is legal in Vermont. You can’t expect youngsters to refrain from pot use any more than they should be expected to refrain from sexual activity.
It now appears that last month’s Kentucky school gym orgy of simulated sex was just a warm-up: they’re prepping - even equipping - 12-year-olds and younger for the real thing.
i we tried to do that we’d be arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors
Let’s just shut down public schools. It’s over.
Amazing that public schools do everything but educate.
I tried to use a condom when I was 16…couldn’t find a girl willing…
…water balloons are cool though
“Phil Scott, incidentally, is a Republican.”
...in name only.
Maybe the clever kids can make balloon animals out of them?
just a few years ago the gov of vermont invited pedophiles to come to the state
chicken... roost
This was surely the goal in the minds of those who mandated Hepatitis B vaccines for those entering 7th grade.
I am not sure what others were told by schools that require the vaccine but I was told that the reason for the requirement was that at 12 many kids were sexually active.
Just who was going to be transmitting Hepatitis B through sexual activity to those 7th graders?
Sinking deeper and deeper into the pit.
One way or another, just have to keep the population down either by vaccination or condoms.
Reason number 8,749 to home school your kids.
GD perverted evil leftists. 🤬
Would be poetic justice to see Scott on his next public appearance to be pelted by hundreds of water filled condoms.
Most excellent. We dont want Vermont hippy liberals reproducing offspring.
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