This is encouraging news; a house sub-committee has decided not to cut federal grants for abstinence education--indeed, the sub-committee voted to increase funding. ("Poll finds majority back birth control" - The Washington Times).
Read the article, those on the other side of the culture war are decrying the vote. I think that it is wise to promote an ideal for behavior, even if--for a time, the ideal isn't met by young people. But the Left's singling out of abstinence education for elimination is rather disingenuous. Why waste money on tobacco-bashing or marketing aimed at curbing any "bad" behaviors?
What does the Left have against abstinence education?
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It's all about free love.
Free from consequences. Free from shame. Free from responsibility. Free from accountability. It's a human right, dontcha know. It's at the core of the right to pursue happiness.
These folks haven't grown up yet. They're still stuck in the '60's.
What they don't understand is that it devalues real relationship and intimacy.
Abstinence Ed... worked for you, right Ned?
Kay,
Yea, sex is bad. You can't have sex in a 'real relationship' unless you're married first.
That's a neanderthal perspective if I ever heard one.
Pam, I wasn't ever taught abstinence, but thanks for asking.
And it's ironic that you are trying to portray viewing humans as more than animals in heat as "neanderthal."
No, sex isn't "bad," and noone said it was, but sex is surely powerful and meaningful and consequential--something you and the horndog culture seem to have difficulty comprehending.
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William,
Sorry, but you'll have to post that kind of crap at your blog. And sex ed is not for people of adult age like you and Ellie May and Pam. That's kind of the point, you know?
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