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This business of "abstinence-only sex education programs"

gets on my nerves, because it makes it look like the intention of the evil Bush theocracy was to ensure that no teenager would ever again know the the joys of putting a condom on a bananna in a tax-funded HS classroom. In fact, no matter how liberals try to brand it, the only purpose of this appropriation was to ensure that some of that tax money goes towards getting the message out that there is another way besides promicuity. Liberals, of course, believe that adults have zero influence on adolescents, and teenagers will be having sex not matter what we tell them, because that's what teenagers do.

1 posted on 05/08/2009 6:58:55 AM PDT by presidio9
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Why do Catholics continue to fawn over this guy?


2 posted on 05/08/2009 7:02:40 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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The more young unwed mothers you create, the more welfare recipients you create. The more welfare recipients you create, the more loyal Democrat voters you create.

Thus, Democrat sex-education must always focus on getting teenagers to have more sex, not less.


3 posted on 05/08/2009 7:08:06 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (The GOP: The Big Tent with a Fifth Column.)
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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.

How does replacing a 100 million dollar program with a 110 million dollar equate to a cut? No body questions this community organizer...

4 posted on 05/08/2009 7:09:17 AM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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Good. Abstinence is something that should be taught by parents and reinforced by a good, moral upbringing. Sex education should be just that - the biology of human reproduction, the science of sexually-transmitted diseases and a look at real-world, social implications.

Understanding sex doesn't make people want to have sex. Understanding that homosexual sex has high risk factors doesn't make people "turn gay". Information is never the problem - bad information or the lack of any information is.

Abstinence-only sex education implies that by avoiding discussion of sex, adults can regulate the information available to students and dissuade them from temptation. Which, frankly, is ridiculous in the age of the Internet and at a time when kids are hitting puberty younger and younger.

I'm no fan of Zero, but this is one battle that I'm happy to see social conservatives lose. That might seem contradictory. While I respect and support a conservative, moral, principled and value-based approach to government and society, abstinence-only sex education is an example of well-intentioned efforts being counter-productive.
10 posted on 05/08/2009 7:51:02 AM PDT by Reaganomical
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So let’s see... so far, he’s turned his back on Christianity, turned his back on abstinence, funded and encouraged abortion both in the United States and world-wide, nationalized the automobile industry, nationalized the banking industry, put caps on businessmen’s salaries, demoralized Wall Street, demoralized the CIA, cut the military budget, bowed to the Saudis, flipped off the Israelis, offered the Glad Hand to Fidel, played kissy-face with Iran and turned a blind eye to their nuclear weapons program... what am I leaving out?

Yep, it’s been a heck of a start. If present trends continue, by the time 2012 rolls around, we’ll have Red Guards parading in the streets and waving the Little Red Book as the urban proletariat is marched out to the farms to grow rice.


15 posted on 05/08/2009 8:21:40 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (here)
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Well after all. The sexual promiscuity and immorality advocates are among Maobama’s biggest voting blocs. BHO has to reward them so they’ll keep fawning over him.


18 posted on 05/08/2009 9:15:30 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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SEICUS and other “sex positive” agenda foundations encourage teen sex.

Positive.org has a “just say yes” campaign targeted at teens.

The falicy is they proclaim that “abstinence doesn’t work”. They lie. Elsewhere you can find them making statements that it is an “unhealthy” supression of sexual desires. They are against it in principle, not the practicality of it.


20 posted on 05/08/2009 9:47:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Liberals are so upset over torture, why did they mock John McCains stiff arms during the campaign)
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To: presidio9
In fact, no matter how liberals try to brand it, the only purpose of this appropriation was to ensure that some of that tax money goes towards getting the message out that there is another way besides promicuity.

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.

26 posted on 06/17/2009 5:26:40 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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