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Obama Supports Sex-Education in Kindergarten, Romney Strikes Back
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | July 20, 2007 | Elizabeth O'Brien

Posted on 07/21/2007 1:28:03 AM PDT by monomaniac

Obama Supports Sex-Education in Kindergarten, Romney Strikes Back "How much sex education is age appropriate for a 5-year-old? In my view, zero," Romney declares

By Elizabeth O'Brien

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As the presidential vote approaches, Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney are pitted against each other over the issue of the appropriateness of sex-education for kindergarten students.

Pro-abortion Senator Barack Obama addressed a Planned Parenthood Action Fund group on Tuesday, saying, "It's the right thing to do," to provide "age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools." Obama said he believes that children need information when they are young so that they can protect themselves from sexual predators.

Romney struck back while campaigning in Colorado Springs, asking, "How much sex education is age appropriate for a 5-year-old?" Romney stated, "In my view, zero is the right amount. Instead of teaching about sex education in kindergarten to 5-year-olds let's clean up the ocean of filth, the cesspool in which our children are swimming."

"Let's let our 5-year olds be 5-year olds," said Romney's spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. "When students are old enough for sex education they should be taught abstinence as part of their health curriculum and that marriage should come before babies."

Obama defended himself saying, "All I said was that I support the same laws that exist in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in which local communities and parents can make decisions to provide children with the information they need to deal with sexual predators," the Boston Globe reports. As Illinois State Senator, Obama approved legislation that would allow sex-education in kindergarten rather than grades 6 to 12 only.

During his governorship of Massachusetts, Romney actively supported abstinence education in addition to sex-education (see http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2005/12/21/state_to_push_abstinence_in_schools/). On the other hand, ABC also reports that in a 2002 Planned Parenthood questionnaire, Romney checked yes to the following question: "Do you support the teaching of responsible, age-appropriate, factually accurate health and sexuality education, including information about both abstinence and contraception, in public schools?"

Romney, who professes to have had a demonstrative, but recent turn-around in his moral views, has called himself "firmly pro-life". Despite this and his present conservative stand against Obama on the matter of sex-education, Romney has met with considerable suspicion from conservatives and is being forced to work hard to reassure many voters who are uneasy due to a history of waffling on traditional values.

See ABC News coverage: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/WireStory?id=3395323&page=2

The Romney Report: An Analysis of Republican Mitt Romney's Legacy on Life and Family

Part 1: Romney and his Pro-life Position http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07050711.html

The Romney Report: An In-Depth Analysis of Mitt Romney's Legacy on Life and Family Continued: Part II http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07051409.html

Senators Clinton, Obama, say "Homosexuality is Moral" http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07031606.html

"Talking about Touching" Sex-Ed Opponent Fr. Altier Writes to Spirit Daily http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06030809.html


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; innocense; kindergarten; obama; prolife; romney; sexeducation

1 posted on 07/21/2007 1:28:05 AM PDT by monomaniac
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To: monomaniac

Sex ed for five year olds? Disgusting.

The only amusing thing about this is that a featherweight like Obama would want to take on Mitt Romney in a debate. B. Hussein Obama’s strategy should be to just talk about the struggles of being a (rich) black man, tout his Oprah endorsement and continue on with the most vapid and vacant candidacy of all time. Leave the issues to the big boys and by all means do not take on the alpha candidate in Romney.


2 posted on 07/21/2007 2:19:04 AM PDT by Dragonspirit (We fight it out as good friends now, but in 2008 we UNITE against our enemy!)
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To: monomaniac

Here's a victim of Romney's sex ed for kindergarteners.

Arrested for complaining about the gay indoctrination of his kids in Romneyland.

3 posted on 07/21/2007 4:30:17 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (What would Beowulf do?)
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To: monomaniac

When I was homeschooling in NY, they used to require three things taught besides a basic educational curriculum- traffic safety, fire safety, and age appropriate AIDS education, from kindergarten upwards.

I thought it must have been a powerful lobby to stick that in. It was infuriating. What foolishness.


4 posted on 07/21/2007 10:54:19 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: monomaniac

Obama is sick.


5 posted on 07/21/2007 10:55:10 AM PDT by apocalypto
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