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To: Oberon
What makes anyone think that it's the government's job to fix problems with society's morals? Or sexual behavior? Or what have you?

Our government has been trying to do it since our founding Actually, before our founding & since we kept English Law as part of our system, it was a continuation instead of something new. Heck, we fought a civil war about a moral issue. During most of our history, it was handled by the state level. Federal courts pushed the states out of the business as much as they were able. Once paying for the results of sexual behavior became something handled by the Feds, sexuality became a Federal issue.

Devolve education back to the local level, sex education goes back to being under local control.

I'm sure the author of this article would prefer those 50 million in tax dollars paid for condoms on fruit type of sex ed, over the type that's in this expenditure.

121 posted on 11/01/2006 11:50:53 AM PST by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly
Heck, we fought a civil war about a moral issue.

The purpose of the Civil War was, apparently, to enfranchise people of color so that they could vote en bloc for the party of those who had formerly oppressed them.

Ah, but I'm being bitter...no point to that. =]

147 posted on 11/01/2006 12:16:38 PM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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