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Thy Virginity Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks.

Ryan

From the Catholic Church’s press release factory, we have an update on federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs, titled To Abstain or Not to Abstain.

On June 9 the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies approved an increase of $11 million in abstinence funding for fiscal year 2006, which would take the overall sum to $115 million. A press release issued the same day by Abstinence Clearinghouse, a nonprofit educational organization based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, welcomed the decision, even though the increase fell short of the $39 million boost sought by President George Bush.
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“Promiscuity keepers, like SIECUS and Advocates for Youth, would have people believe that teen sex is normal, safe and healthy,” explained Unruh, “but science does not support these claims.”

This has got to one of the hackiest bits of “journalism” I’ve seen in awhile.

You don’t have to be a heathen like me to understand that comprehensive sex education programs are not endorsements of promiscuity. In fact, I would think it to be quite the opposite. Arming young adults with the facts about disease is kind of like a military boot camp under a Republican President: You know you’re eventually going to go to war, so it’s best to learn how to survive.

That’s not a particularly germane analogy, so I think it’s time to play the word game. My first contribution, to counter the “promiscuity keepers” canard, would be to call the abstinence-only crowd what they are: the Pro-STD Lobby. Any other suggestions?

9 thoughts on Thy Virginity Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks.

  1. The “Ignorance-Only Epidemic.”

    Their motto could be “Pro-Creation, not procreation!”

    or

    “Blue Balls for All!”

    ????

  2. “Pharisees Against Prophylactics” (PAP)

    This would be a convenient term for lefty bloggers to use. It would get the opposition all riled up when we start to criticize their attacks on us with posts titled “Just Another PAP Smear”.

  3. Pro-Aids Activists. They’d rather their kids die from ignorance than live in sin.

    Pro-Anal Sex Lobby (because teens with abstinence pledges are more likely to have anal sex)

    The Cervical Cancer Campaign, since they don’t want girls to have access to the vaccine that could save their lives.

  6. The anti-education lobby. Think about it, how many times do kids complain about how they “don’t need to know” X when studying it in school, and how many times are they told that while the lessons something they may apply immediately, the information will be used and/or builds a foundation for something they’ll need in the future. Since when do we limit what we teach in school to information a student needs in the here and now (or even to subject matter that they will use directly in the future)?

  7. What we have here is a state supported”educational” program couched in the language of fear, pride, and myth, not fact.
    can you say Reefer Madness?

  9. the ‘Commitee for the denial of Youth Sex’
    motto: “Kids are naturally Sexless”

    Council Against Teen Love(CATL)
    motto: “Teen love is Satan’s little trap”

    the ‘Sexual ignorance lobby’
    motto: “Kids are ignorant, let’s keep it that way”

    the ‘Imposed Celibacy Cabal’
    “Ignorant kids won’t do what’s natural”

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