Posted on 05/08/2009 6:58:55 AM PDT by presidio9
The White House wants to get out of the business of telling youngsters "Just Say No to Sex."
President Obama is putting his own ideological stamp on federal spending in his proposed 2010 budget by cutting cash for abstinence-only sex ed programs.
He's taken a scalpel to a pair of $100 million George W. Bush-era programs that exclusively preached abstinence. Obama is replacing them with $110 million for comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention.
"It's about time that evidence-based management - and sanity - return to family planning programs," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan).
Dumping the say-no-to-sex programs were a tiny fraction of the $17 billion Team Obama trimmed from its $3.4 trillion funding budget request.Overall, New Yorkers say Obama's budget helps the city - but raised several red flags.
One is Obama's plan to cut $600 million from the federal terrorism insurance program.
"This is a real mistake," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, saying he'd fight to keep the money.
The administration deems the program, which helps cover builders against terror attacks, an "excessive federal subsidy." It hopes the cuts encourage them to "mitigate terrorism risk" by "building safer buildings."
"It's a definite setback for rebuilding Ground Zero," said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.). "It's the No. 1 terrorist target in the world. We need that federal backstop."
Lawmakers were pleased, though, that Obama is stepping up with $70 million to aid ill 9/11 responders.
In another area that sparked alarm, King panned Obama's move to end a program that paid the NYPD $18 million last year for help battling illegal immigration.
Lawmakers were also upset Obama scrapped plans to build a new presidential helicopter fleet in upstate Owego - $3.6 billion has already been spent.
The sex positive agenda seeks to end all moral judgements over all sexual pairings, regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).
They oppose any of your “moral teachings”.
They believe Chrisitans are “sex negative”.
They are bigoted and hedonistic in their worldview.
There is a culturewar afoot and the President is standing on the Left side of it.
Now that schools recognize the sexual relations between members of the same sex, all of that talk of reproduction and even coitus is "meaningless trivia" to them. They also "require" education in "safe" practices (Massachusetts has even taught kids about safe "fisting").
It's gone from biology and mechanics to positions and disease prevention "always clean your toys...", "rectal bleeding".
Consenting adults in private was a myth. It's in the classroom being taught to minors.
Do you think it is the schools’ job to teach children about sex?
Of course, these same people tell us the homosexual agenda is also a reduction in the size of government.
The best revolution is a generation of people without morals. After the revolution is done, dictatorship will be established.
Lenin did this and it worked.
But there’s a flipside:
It can also be used against communist countries, and after the revolution is done, freedom and democracy will be established.
Hey, it worked so well for the Palin's, right? Programs that preach one solution and one solution only are pretty much useless, and that is true of programs which preach birth control only as well as ones who preach abstinence only. I have no problem with abstinence being one of the suggested guidelines in a government program, but for it to be the only one ignores the problem of teen pregnancy rather than deals with it.
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