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25Nov2004

Stupid naive Puritans

DateThursday, November 25, 2004 at 09:32PM

I love a faith-based approach to policy, don't you? $131 MILLION is going to be spent on promoting abstinence education but NOT safe sex education.
This is YOUR tax money that is almost literally being set on fire. You could distribute the $131 million to the teenagers directly and they would still have sex.

Quoth Wade Horn, the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services in charge of federal abstinence funding:

"[P]eople who are sexually abstinent have a zero chance of becoming pregnant or getting someone pregnant or contracting a sexually transmitted disease."

James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth responds:

"The only 100 percent way to avoid a car collision is not to drive, but the federal government sure does a lot of advocacy for safety belts."

Read the story and be horrified. I'm sorry, this is just beyond stupid.

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