Sex, Lies, and Federal Money

Every year when I was in high school in Lubbock, Texas, we were herded into the auditorium for a lecture from a local youth pastor about the birds and the bees.

At the culmination of every presentation, the pastor pulled a girl up on stage, produced a dirty, dingy toothbrush from his pocket and asked if she would brush her teeth with it. When she invariably said no, he pulled out another toothbrush, this one in its original box, and repeated the question. When she said yes to that one, he brandished the rejected toothbrush above his head and announced to the audience, "If you have sex before marriage, you are the dirty toothbrush."

A report recently released on the state of sex education in Texas details other bizarre things students are taught in the classroom about sex, contraception and their bodies, all subsidized by federal dollars. One skit titled "Jumping Off the Bridge" concludes that giving a condom to a teen is like saying, "Well if you insist on killing yourself by jumping off the bridge, at least wear these elbow pads." Another presentation equates pre-marital sex with instances of marital murder-suicide. Still another compares women's sexuality to crock pots that take awhile to get warmed up, and men's to microwaves that are ready to cook at a moment's notice.

An entire generation of American teens has been confused, misinformed and endangered by abstinence-only-until-marriage programs like these. They are not just paid for by the federal government; states can't use these dollars for anything else.

In the past fifteen years alone, more than a billion taxpayer dollars have been doled out to every state to teach curricula that often contain factual inaccuracies about condoms and contraceptives, generalizations about sexuality that are based on biases about gender and sexual orientation, and religious messaging that probably violates the U.S. Constitution.

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/05/05/sex-lies-and-federal-money

just a regular ole sex ed course.

and the science teachers teach evolution, not creationism. 8th grader was telling about the girl saying she doesnt believe in evolutionism and teacher responded, whatever.

...not just yet.

there is still plenty of bullshit being flung around about contraception and sexual health - apparently in lubbock and lots of other places in the ol US.

PEE-ESS: kudos to amarillo for getting it right and doing the smart thing!

with amarillo. the only two districts i know. so the only two i can give an informed answer to.

lots of little areas. and if they get to decide on their own, then i wouldnt be surprised. lubbock also is a dry county, no booze, so kinda goes with the mentality

sex "education" (or, actually MISeducation) and use the money to fund REAL sex education instead.

having a discussion about abstinence only program. now, not to dismiss the attitude, cause one of the women is a real fundie, holie roller, bigot. left pta cause of three bigoted comments in one meeting from her. but, on this conversation of abstinence i was surprised to hear both agree that an abstinence program does not work and indeed, seemed to cause more of a problem.