yes, this is public.
As some of you may know, the Bush Administration, along with its followers, has constructed an Abstinence Campaign in the United States. Upon reading a short article in the liberal magazine, `Mother Jones,` I was thoroughly disturbed, as were many members of my family, both religious and not. We have a seven trillion dollar deficit, and yet we can have a campaign like this, we can think about building a stadium in Manhattan that will cost millions of dollars, and our country's government is doing everything in their right mind, no pun intended, to dominate the rest of the world. I decided to post the snippet from `Mother Jones` magazine, and along with it add my thoughts. I've typed this up myself, just in case anyone was trying to find this online. I have not looked for this particular piece, so I do not know.
``Danger, Do Not Enter``
Thanks to a well-publicized congressional investigation, we now know that the federal funded abstinence curricula are riddled with scientific errors, half-truths, and outright lies. So what are students and taxpayers getting for $170 million a year? If the following lessons are any indication, overwrought metaphors, laughable lists, and a lesson in Russian roulette. -- Peter Meredith
(Brianna: Indeed.)
"Hold up a beautiful rose. Talk about the petals and how they add color and fragrance to the rose. Hand the rose to a student, telling that student to pull off a petal and pass it on to another student who also pulls off a petal. Continue passing the rose around until there are no more petals. At the end, hold up the rose. Ask: Of what value is the rose now? ... The rose represents someone who participates in casual sex." -- Choosing the Best PATH
(Brianna: This is heinous. So if you have sex before marriage, and/or with more than one person, you are worthless? Giving into human nature makes your value depleted?)
"No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart." --A.C. Green's Game Plan
(Brianna: Yes, let's blame the condom. Heartbreak can be caused by more than sex.)
"The first player spins the cylinder, points the gun to his/her head, and pulls the trigger. He/She has only a one in sex chance of being killed. But if one continues to perform this act, the chamber with the bullet will ultimately fall into position, and the game ends as one of the players dies. Relying on condoms is like playing Russian roulette." -- Me, My World, My Future
(Brianna: Comparing condoms to Russian roulette. That says enough as it is. We've been trying for years to get people to use condoms, and this ridiculously inaccurate statement tries to tell students that they don't work at all, and that ultimately, sex will kill them. Right.)
"Watch what you wear, if you don't aim to please, don't aim to tease." -- Sex Respect
(Brianna: Whoa. Okay, so this means that if you're going to dress in a certain way, you better be ready to put out? How hypocritical is that? Besides, that basically means that rape is okay, because hey, you dressed sexy! You better be ready to give that stranger a good time, because you showed some cleavage!)
"Infertility, isolation, jealousy, poverty, heartbreak, substance abuse, AIDS, pregnancy, cervical cancer, genital herpes, unstable long-term commitments, depression, embarrassment, meaningless wedding, sexual violence, personal disappointment, suicide, feelings of being usedm loss of honesty, loneliness, loss of personal goals, distrust of others, pelvic inflammatory disease, loss of reputation, fear of pregnancy, disappointed parents, loss of self-esteem, leaving high school before graduation... ALL of them can be eliminated by being abstinent until marriage." -- Choosing the Best PATH
(Brianna: By far the most scientifically and common sensically incorrect of all quotes. Infertility, cervical cancer, AIDS, genital herpes, depression, and pelvic inflammatory disease are all things that can come about plenty of other ways rather than just having sexual intercourse. Isolation, jealousy, poverty (ha!), heartbreak, unstable long-term commitments, embarrassment, personal disappointment, feelings of being used, loss of honesty (what the hell?), distrust of others, loss of reputation (wow, priorities...), disappointed parents, loss of self-esteem, and leaving high school early, all of these things can come about without having sex, so I don't see the relevence. Fear of pregnancy? Suicide? I'm just in awe, really, and even more so at the fact that people believe this sort of farfetched embellishment. But none of these things will happen if you get married and then have sex. Oh no, because you won't get depressed, or heart broken, or sick, or lose your precious reputation. Quite frankly, what bullshit falsification.)
Fin.
So there you are. This is what will be taught to students in schools. Sure, I agree that far too many teenagers are having sex too early, but to feed them lies and scientific inaccuracies? That's insane. Thank you to the Bush Administration, for issuing yet another fascist situation on the hands of all Americans.
And don't even get me started about him wanting to put tons of plutonium in orbit around the earth in order to help with the war. One pound of plutonium could knock out the population of the earth, and he wants to put much more than that up into space? What's the risk, really? Oh, you know, just that we'll completely obliterate Earth.
But what's the harm in that, eh George Walker?
``Danger, Do Not Enter``
Thanks to a well-publicized congressional investigation, we now know that the federal funded abstinence curricula are riddled with scientific errors, half-truths, and outright lies. So what are students and taxpayers getting for $170 million a year? If the following lessons are any indication, overwrought metaphors, laughable lists, and a lesson in Russian roulette. -- Peter Meredith
(Brianna: Indeed.)
"Hold up a beautiful rose. Talk about the petals and how they add color and fragrance to the rose. Hand the rose to a student, telling that student to pull off a petal and pass it on to another student who also pulls off a petal. Continue passing the rose around until there are no more petals. At the end, hold up the rose. Ask: Of what value is the rose now? ... The rose represents someone who participates in casual sex." -- Choosing the Best PATH
(Brianna: This is heinous. So if you have sex before marriage, and/or with more than one person, you are worthless? Giving into human nature makes your value depleted?)
"No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart." --A.C. Green's Game Plan
(Brianna: Yes, let's blame the condom. Heartbreak can be caused by more than sex.)
"The first player spins the cylinder, points the gun to his/her head, and pulls the trigger. He/She has only a one in sex chance of being killed. But if one continues to perform this act, the chamber with the bullet will ultimately fall into position, and the game ends as one of the players dies. Relying on condoms is like playing Russian roulette." -- Me, My World, My Future
(Brianna: Comparing condoms to Russian roulette. That says enough as it is. We've been trying for years to get people to use condoms, and this ridiculously inaccurate statement tries to tell students that they don't work at all, and that ultimately, sex will kill them. Right.)
"Watch what you wear, if you don't aim to please, don't aim to tease." -- Sex Respect
(Brianna: Whoa. Okay, so this means that if you're going to dress in a certain way, you better be ready to put out? How hypocritical is that? Besides, that basically means that rape is okay, because hey, you dressed sexy! You better be ready to give that stranger a good time, because you showed some cleavage!)
"Infertility, isolation, jealousy, poverty, heartbreak, substance abuse, AIDS, pregnancy, cervical cancer, genital herpes, unstable long-term commitments, depression, embarrassment, meaningless wedding, sexual violence, personal disappointment, suicide, feelings of being usedm loss of honesty, loneliness, loss of personal goals, distrust of others, pelvic inflammatory disease, loss of reputation, fear of pregnancy, disappointed parents, loss of self-esteem, leaving high school before graduation... ALL of them can be eliminated by being abstinent until marriage." -- Choosing the Best PATH
(Brianna: By far the most scientifically and common sensically incorrect of all quotes. Infertility, cervical cancer, AIDS, genital herpes, depression, and pelvic inflammatory disease are all things that can come about plenty of other ways rather than just having sexual intercourse. Isolation, jealousy, poverty (ha!), heartbreak, unstable long-term commitments, embarrassment, personal disappointment, feelings of being used, loss of honesty (what the hell?), distrust of others, loss of reputation (wow, priorities...), disappointed parents, loss of self-esteem, and leaving high school early, all of these things can come about without having sex, so I don't see the relevence. Fear of pregnancy? Suicide? I'm just in awe, really, and even more so at the fact that people believe this sort of farfetched embellishment. But none of these things will happen if you get married and then have sex. Oh no, because you won't get depressed, or heart broken, or sick, or lose your precious reputation. Quite frankly, what bullshit falsification.)
Fin.
So there you are. This is what will be taught to students in schools. Sure, I agree that far too many teenagers are having sex too early, but to feed them lies and scientific inaccuracies? That's insane. Thank you to the Bush Administration, for issuing yet another fascist situation on the hands of all Americans.
And don't even get me started about him wanting to put tons of plutonium in orbit around the earth in order to help with the war. One pound of plutonium could knock out the population of the earth, and he wants to put much more than that up into space? What's the risk, really? Oh, you know, just that we'll completely obliterate Earth.
But what's the harm in that, eh George Walker?