Posted on 07/18/2007 3:30:56 PM PDT by Vision
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do."
"I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate.
"'Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners,'" said Obama mimicking Keyes' distinctive style of speech. "Which -- I didn’t know what to tell him (laughter)."
"But it’s the right thing to do," Obama continued, "to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools."
Watch the video: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3386492
Speaking to a young woman who asked a question about sex education, Obama said, "You, as a peer, can have enormous power over your age cohort but you’ve got to have some support from the schools. You certainly should not have to be fighting each and every instance by providing accurate information outside of the classroom because inside the classroom the only thing that can be talked about is abstinence."
"Keep in mind: I honor and respect young people who choose to delay sexual activity," Obama continued. "I’ve got two daughters, and I want them to understand that sex is not something casual. That's something that we definitely want to communicate and should be part of any curriculum. But we also know that when the statistics tell us that nearly half of 15 to 19 year olds are engaging in sexual activity, that for us to leave them in ignorance is potentially consigning them to illness, pregnancy, poverty, and in some cases, death."
When Obama's campaign was asked by ABC News to explain what kind of sex education Obama considers "age appropriate" for kindergarteners, the Obama campaign pointed to an Oct. 6, 2004 story from the Daily Herald in which Obama had "moved to clarify" in his Senate campaign that he "does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten. . . The legislation in question was a state Senate measure last year that aimed to update Illinois' sex education standards with 'medically accurate' information . . . 'Nobody's suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it,' Obama said. 'If they ask a teacher 'where do babies come from,' that providing information that the fact is that it's not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that's going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards.'"
In addition to local schools informing kindergarteners that babies do not come from the stork, the state legislation Obama supported in Illinois, which contained an "opt out" provision for parents, also envisioned teaching kindergarteners about "inappropriate touching," according to Obama's presidential campaign. Despite Obama's support, the legislation was not enacted.
Baby gherkins insteads of bananas?
I have a Kindergartner right now and an 8 year old...I don’t want to fly off the handle too much on this because he did say “age appropriate”.
My biggest concern is what is “age appropriate”? What’s the curriculum? How is it presented? Who is presenting it?
I don’t mind if they’re saying things like “don’t let Mr. Clown touch your privates” but just how far are they going to go?
Obama \ Elders 2008 Ticket
IMHO, it serves to reduce sex to its most basic biological function and to remove any moral virtue associated with sex at the earliest possible age - part of the "perversion of America" thing.
Sexualizing 5-year-olds? Not too cool, Obama.
Let’s let children remain children.
Sure there is. I'd have no problem at all with a teacher who told a kindergartner, in no uncertain terms, that girls do not have cooties.
Other than that, leave it alone.
Drew Garrett
We should start a thread where FReepers can list all the contradictions and double standards that liberals put forth.
You mean, the teacher should lie? Everybody knows that girls do have cooties.
Let parents decide how much and when a child learns about sex. Is the government going to start teaching kids how to wipe their ass next?
Is it really so radical to want schools to only teach reading, writing, math, and other pertinent subjects?
Obama, Listen very carefully.
You may want your children raised by someone else. We want our children raised by us period. No government, nothing but us. Anything we need to learn; we will learn without you and the government or anyone else stupid enough to think we can not raise our children ourselves.
Now go sit down in your seat and be quiet.
Here’s all any Conservative needs to know about Barrack Hussein Obama:
Special Interest Group Ratings:
Planned Parenthood - 100% Support
National Right To Life - 0% Support
NARAL - 100% Support
Americans for Tax Reform - 0% Support
ACLU - 83% Support
NEA - 100% Support
NOW Hags - 100% Support
Citizens Against Government Waste - 13% Support
Gun Owners of America - 0% Support
NRA - “F” Rating
Federation for American Immigration Reform - 0% Support
US Border Patrol - 8% Support
Unions - 82% - 100% Support
Population Connection - 100% Support (These are the ‘Zero Growth’ freaks)
http://vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS030017
[Barrack Hussein Obama’s record in the Illinois senate:]
- Opposed the Defense of Marriage Act; would work to repeal it in the U.S. Senate; would not vote for any legislation that would restrict the ability of gays and lesbians to marry.
- Opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times in Illinois. A similar bill passed the U.S. Senate 98-0. The Born Alive bill would have prohibited a baby from being born alive but left to die according to the mother’s wishes. Obama inexplicably opposed this bill not once, twice, or three times, but four times.
- Obama took almost $90,000 in bundled contributions from the Council for a Livable World. The council is a well-known anti-defense organization.
- Obama puts rigid ideology before what’s best for the people of Illinois, and presumably he would do that as President as well. He has on several occasions made public his opposition to the NAFTA trade agreement and his belief that it must be negotiated. All the while thanks to NAFTA, Illinois exports $1.3 billion in agricultural goods to Canada.
- Obama refused to vote for a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would have increased penalties for drug traffickers.
- Obama voted against a bill that would have delivered the death penalty to gang members who murder first responders.
- Finally, just in case you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited early release for sexual predators.
Can’t kill the innocent fast enough, can’t free the guilty soon enough!
Obama, Listen very carefully.
You may want your children raised by someone else. We want our children raised by us period. No government, nothing but us. Anything we need to learn; we will learn without you and the government or anyone else stupid enough to think we can not raise our children ourselves.
Now go sit down in your seat and be quiet.
What a ta-ra-ra-goon-dee-yay.
Obama, you freakin’ jerk. Stay AWAY FROM THE KIDS!!!
A.W.A.Y.
Home schooling — the answer.
Parent controlled local private schools is another alternative (parents who would want to home school, but for reasons beyond their control can not do it).
Keep these schools small and consider them as home schools. The parents should all share the teaching responsibilities as possible. These work best when the families are of like faith, of course.
Sit together with other parents who want to keep their children out of the government schools. You can find ways to school your children very well without the FILTH that the government and teachers unions pump into the education system.
GET THOSE KIDS OUT OF SEX-ED CHAMBERS.
His parents should have had a lesson on birth kontrol. Idiot!
Blow Job will be the first thing they learn about because the FIRST Black President got them in the Oval Office.
Exactly! My 5 year old son starts Kindergarten in a month and in no way does he need to know about sex. He doesn’t know about it now. Heck, my 9 year old 3rg grader has no clue what it is either at this point. At some point I plan to sit down and tell him about, but when he goes through puberty and starts to notice girls.
If Obama makes it into the white house and this comes to pass my kids will be pulled out of Public School!
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