Congress Again Extends Abstinence-Only Funding

Washington Times:

Congress again has extended funding for a core abstinence-education program, sparking protests from sex-education advocates who want Democrats to pull the plug on such programs.

"Their actions defy logic and common sense," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth.

First, Congress funds what Mr. Wagoner called unproven abstinence programs. Then it commissions a study that shows they don't work, but lawmakers ignore those results and continue to fund the programs.

"Teens deserve better policies. We all deserve better leaders," said Mr. Wagoner, whose organization stresses rights, respect and responsibility in sex education.

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Comments

[MikeDu]

Denying sex ed for fear of promotion promiscuity is like denying courses on financial education for fear it'll promote gambling addiction.

[LindaSmart50]

I am bisexual and enjoy sucking cock and also a delicious sopping wet pussy occasionally. But I DON'T like being penetrated unless its by my JackRabbit which is safe and disinfected daily.

Praise Jesus!!

[LindaSmart50]

Oh, and before I hear nasty comments from you heathens....I DON'T swallow. I wear a dental dam.

[pagangrandma]

This is really more information than any of us needed to know.

[Qbear]

tmi

[mrcontinental]

How you doin'?

[helonias]

And whats with the satanic hand signals from the kids in the poster?

[helonias]

But who will really tell the kids whats right, Messengers, Viter, Foley, Craig, Newti, Rudy, Delay or McCain?

[helonias]

There is clearly not enough religious snake handling classes being taught in school nowadays.

[Sumocat]

Holy crap! I just realized that b/w image of the clearly not white people is from a Virginia state pro-abstinence pamphlet. Must be from George Allen's "real" Virginia.

[carefulcautious]

Thank you for this article. The government needs to re-educate everyone on sex. It is natural and wonderful and parents should be RESTRICTED from telling children some BS religion!!! thinks sex ought to wait until marriage. What hypocrites! Teenagers are going to have sex. Time to restrict the disSEMENnation of anti-sex-freedom religious LIES!!!

Edwards/Obama 08

[Krackonis]

Retarded. Tell people to stop having sex and removing condoms results in more unwanted black babies to shove through the meat grindre of war.

That is what this is all about. Well and to give the GoP a large group of abusable young victims to shove through the "orifices of power".

Google the Franklin Conspiracy.

[lisakaz]

These Bible Thumpers don't get why these programs don't work. The disconnect is that they don't remember why they wouldn't have worked on them, either. Kids tune out stuff they know is phoney and they know these programs are phoney. Any good info given is going to be lost on them. Because the slant is unrealistic, the message has no chance of working on anyone who isn't on board already. This is like preaching to the choir except the choir is only a small portion of students.

I got "regular" sex ed, as in facts in terms of diseases. There was no moralizing by the health teacher. She was a bit punky (it was the 80s) and I think students would have smelled out a holier-than-thou attitude. And the info didn't make me have sex anytime sooner than I did; really it made no difference, with the exception that "safe sex" (or safer, whatever) was practiced.

The utter stupidity of this is appalling. Reminds me of a guy I knew who was going to tell his daughter than he and his wife never had sex before they were married. What?! It made HIM feel good but it would do nothing to prepare this girl for life at all. That's what I see with these programs. Educating kids has nothing to do with the program.

[kellygrrrl]

perfect!!!!!!!

Have these idiots ever thought about the costs to FIX the problems caused by
STDs, unwanted pregnancy?

It reminds me of the insurance companies who will not pay for birth control or the HPV vaccine etc.

[pagangrandma]

Or worse, the bible thumpers that are against their daughters getting the HPV vaccine because they fear the message is "have sex".

[only1Demvoter]

pagangrandma : Lenny Bruce said " A knowledge of syphilis is not an instruction to contract it ! "

Yourself, kellygrrrl, and the last thought lisakaz posted above sums this up nicely... This bible thumping agenda crap is smoke and mirrors ( and a whole lot of hoping and praying ) nothing more ! Sort of like the ' pray - away the gay ' bullshit...

I honestly believe they do NOT want to have a clue... You know, ignorance is bliss. Unbelievable ! Question this : What outcome do they hope to effect ??

Great posts you three.

More to follow. -ralph

[ZenJu]

Also consider this: our more fanatical, repressive, and control-freaky segments of the population think nothing of severely punishing those who engage in consensual acts of pleasure, ruin their reputations and lives, and even incarcerate non-violent "offenders." They enshrine the ridiculous rules and laws they make and pretend that they Came Down From Heaven. What a crock. I have very little hope for humanity and just plan to enjoy the show before we wipe our sorry little species out.

[ZenJu]

We truly live in a primitive, paranoid culture that glorifies repression and infantilises adolescents. Anybody remember that in Orwell's novel "1984" there was such thing as sexcrime, and that the totalitarians used sexual repression to whip up enthusiasm for marching, fanaticism and war--to control the citizenry?

[hermesacat]

HEAVY PETTING?
Some knavish sketcher could have a bit of fun with the cartoon of the couple supposedly swearing off sex.

Notice how we can see one each of their hands that are farthest away from each other.
But, as the picture is cut off at torso level, the hands in closest proximity to the other person, are below picture level,invisible.

-We can only guess what those mystery hands
may be up to...it could be heavy petting foreplay!

[BetterDeadthanRedState]

Look, Mitt Romney is doing the same thing with his hands! You can tell by the look on his face.

[MikeDu]

I think its EXTREMELY creepy that illustrations of blacks are used in the sign. Especially considering the fascist right's history of supporting eugenics.

eu·gen·ics

–noun (used with a singular verb)
the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).

[LindaSmart50]

Oh, you noticed that also?

[joja]

Guess they better increase the funding for STD treatments then, because recent studies show that oral sex transmission of STD's by Christian abstainees has skyrocketed!

Gotta love the irony!

[LindaSmart50]

Thats why in my group of Christians friends we advocate using a dental dam and NO swallowing.