U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex Ed Guidelines

Yahoo! News:

Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a good thing, right? That's what the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) thought. But now it finds itself under fire from American conservatives for proposing a new set of guidelines on sex education in schools as a means of helping young people avoid potentially dangerous sexual activity.

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Comments

[CoolPapa]

04:00 PM on 09/03/2009

America's Republicans: the least refined, civilized and educated 'tribe' in the modern world. UNESCO's spokeswoman said they weren't suprised by the right wingers getting amped up about this. Even more conservative and traditional locations like Ethiopia and the Solomon Islands have accepted that changes and progress needs to made to thwart unwanted pregnancies, disease and deaths. But no...not our nation's Republicans, the lone global holdouts on anything that resembles progress or even consensus.

[gotborked]

03:45 PM on 09/03/2009

"Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a good thing, right?"

What an asinine assumption. Most of this world's worst atrocities were attempts at doing something otherwise noble.

This is one of the biggest flaws of present-day thinking. As long as one's motives are geared toward a good end, whatever they're doing is therefore praiseworthy, and the means are rarely adequately scrutinized.

[ajm8127]

03:04 PM on 09/03/2009

If we never talk about it, it'll never happen, right?

[000Jade000]

03:23 PM on 09/03/2009

exactly. And thank Jeebus for that!