Abstinence Only Education reinstated by Utah Senator
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/09/30/abstinence-only-education-is-back.aspx
This article brings to light that even though president Obama cut abstinence only education from his health care reform plan the government has passed an amendment to a lot 50 million dollars to support and provide abstinence only education. I can understand why some uneducated and uniformed people may believe that abstinence only education is actually doing something good for our youth but what i cannot for the life of me understand is how people these uneducated and uniformed people can actually be voted into our government. The amendment was proposed by Utah senator Orrin Hatch and was somehow passed. As the author of this article states, “there’s a mounting body of evidence that abstinence-only education is a categorical failure”. I’m sitting here trying to figure out how these people who run our country can be so F%*$ing stupid and what pops into my mind is that they cant, there must be some other issue here. The only issue i can possibly think of is a religious one so i looked into it. What i found is that Senator Orrin Hatch is a mormon and that Mormons strongly believe in abstinence before marriage. Sound familiar? It does to me, it sounds like the strict beliefs catholics hold. The fact that this issue has a religious meaning behind it really, as Peter Griffin would say, “grinds my gears”. Our government claims to have a separation of church and state yet we have religious zealots running around claiming that abstinence only education works despite all of the evidence that claims it does not. Some of this evidence is available in the article posted in my blog.
The issue behind abstinence only education seems to be a pretty bad one but then i sit back and realize that this is the least of our issues. We actually have people like Pope Benedict running around the world claiming that condoms do not protect against AIDS in countries like SOuth Africa where people are already confused and dying because no one seems to be able to teach them legitimate education. We also have women like Sarah Palin, who was actually being considered to be the vice president of our country, running around telling people that contraception is bad. Hmmmm, doesnt seem quite as ironic anymore that her daughter is pregnant before marriage. What does seem ironic is that her daughter is now a front-runner in an orginization that is preaching abstinence only education. Clearly she enjoyed having sex or she would not have continued to do it untill she got pregnant. Has her mother ever thought that maybe the use of condoms and other contraception can help us get the best of both worlds; sex, that feels amazing and can be an incredible bond between people, and not having children which i would have to imagine is preferable to most teenage girls. What the hell is wrong with our world??? When will we get rid of these archaic religious beliefs and start to look at the world in a realistic way?? unfortunately my guess is never, especially because the people who are put in charge to run our country are these misinformed uneducated cavemen.
