Tennessee: World's Biggest Champagne Room.

This is what people in TN vote for and it's their kids that will end up pregnant and syphilitic. Democracy in action.

Oh for crying out loud.....

Hey Tennessee, hows that teen pregnancy rate again?

Gotto said he proposed the legislation after complaints against some outside vendors that were teaching sexual education in schools.

Outside vendors?

What's this? Mandatory chastity belts for everyone in Tennessee?

I assume the internet exists in Tennessee? That means the kids will find the following about sex:

1. Get some constructive information about sex (YMMV)
2. Get some misinformation about sex (YMMV)
3. Get some propaganda about sex
4. Rule 34

Have fun out there trying to figure out which one you found.

Ignorant is no way to go through puberty.
Just because you don't talk about it doesn't mean they won't do it.

imontheinternet: This one slipped under my radar. How the hell do you teach anything if you can't mention sexual reproduction?

Welcome to Biology class. God did it. Class dismissed.

I think that's the point. Just another part of the right-wing conspiracy to replace human knowledge with religion. And I wish I were exaggerating.

Students are gonna fark no matter what. The choices are a) give them information to do it with the least risk possible, or b) pass laws that intentionally ensure they're going into it uninformed.

Yes. This is what society is doing.in the year 2012.

imontheinternet:
How the hell do you teach anything if you can't mention sexual reproduction?

Who cares? Why do kids really need to learn the filthy details of how animals rub their sin parts together? If they want to be veterinarians, they can learn it as decent church-going adults. If they want to be scientists... better beat that out of them when they're young.

The 3 R's:
Readin
Ritin
Rithmetic
Bible

Nuff said. Go USA!

monoski:
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The bill sponsor, enough said

Now that's a mustache that has seen a lot of trucker cock on the down-low.

This is what happens when you hide your head in the sand.

If kids want to learn about sex in school, they should do it the old fashioned way: under the bleachers.

The last thing we need is more education...


Abstract

In Alabama and across the United States, teen pregnancy rates have dropped sharply since peaking in the early 1990s. According to a recent report from the Guttmacher Institute, there were 67.8 births per 1,000 US females ages 15-19 in 2008, the lowest level recorded in almost 40 years. Experts cite various factors for the decline. A 2007 study by public health researcher Dr. John Santelli said three-quarters of the decline in pregnancy risk among girls 15-17 resulted from improvements in contraceptive use, including the use of multiple methods. About one-quarter of the decline is credited to a drop in sexual activity among teens. But Alabama and the South still trail the rest of the nation in the sexual health of young people, says a new study by the Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) Center for Demographic Research. It recommends that the goals of sex education include delaying sexual activity; reducing the frequency of sexual activity; reducing the number of partners and/or increasing use of condoms and other contraceptives. "The good news is a majority of people are in support of teaching age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education in schools," said Yanyi Djamba, a report co-author and AUM center director. Dr. Tom Miller, deputy director for medical affairs at the Alabama Department of Public Health, said he advocates for the use of condoms in addition to other contraception, since hormonal contraception alone will not protect against HIV or other STDs. "We counsel teens on the importance of abstinence until they are ready to make decisions," said Miller, who was formerly a practicing obstetrician. "We're not promoting sexual activity in teens. But for those involved in sexual activity, it is equally important to know methods of contraception."

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"Kids should learn about sex from their fathers, cousins, and older brothers, just like I did."
The bill sponsor

You know, when I was a kid we didn't have sex ed in school either we learned the old fashion way, Penthouse, Porky's movies, and grainy images of Cinemax After Dark.

The Senate approved the companion bill 29-1 earlier this month.

Where da Democrats at?

Karac: A proposal that would ban the teaching of any type of sexual activity in schools is headed for a House floor vote.

Teach: "Now all you need to know kids is to abstain. Abstinence is the only way."
Student: "What exactly are we supposed to abstain from?"
Teach: "I can't mention that. Just don't do it."

So, I guess no one can say anything about dividing cells, either.

About the most relieved I have ever seen my Father is when he went to have the "birds and the bees" talk with me. I stopped him in the middle of the first sentence and told him that we'd covered it in school.

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This is what happens when you hide your head in the sand.

Don't tell mom where you're going + wine coolers + tent + Levi Johnston = another Palin bastard born.

imontheinternet: This one slipped under my radar. How the hell do you teach anything if you can't mention sexual reproduction?

Welcome to Biology class. God did it. Class dismissed.

That's the entire science curriculum for evangelicals because it is much more important to believe things than to understand things.
If understanding might get in the way of believing than understanding things is immoral.

Mike Baker: She's got her period. Should make for an interesting honeymoon, huh?

Jim Baker: Where are you learning this stuff?

Mike Baker: School.

Jim Baker: Good. Gettin' my money's worth.

What is it with conservatives and their crippling fear of sex?

Christ, these people are such ignorant prudes.

PirateFreedom: imontheinternet: This one slipped under my radar. How the hell do you teach anything if you can't mention sexual reproduction?

Welcome to Biology class. God did it. Class dismissed.

That's the entire science curriculum for evangelicals because it is much more important to believe things than to understand things.
If understanding might get in the way of believing than understanding things is immoral.

Well said.

Republicans... You're stupid.

I'm telling you this because you don't seem to realize that you're stupid and you keep trying to spread your stupidity to others. You need to stop. Just because you were raised to be stupid doesn't mean it was right to do to you and you certainly shouldn't be trying to do that to others.

I applaud these job creators, for actively trying to find work for the younger generations on "16 and pregnant" and "Teen Mom". They should be commended even further for focusing on women that Obama has shunned during his reign.

natazha: "Kids should learn about sex from their fathers, cousins, and older brothers, just like I did."
The bill sponsor

"Pork your daughters, cousins and sisters, folks, it's the MORAL way for them to learn about sex."

So it not only bans non "abstinence-centered" sex education, it also creates a cause of action for parents to sue on if a "vendor" is in violation.

What if this resurgence of abstinence knee-jerkism isn't knee jerk at all; what if it's deliberate? An attempt at creating a trove ignorant dependents through a population explosion of the next generation? Isn't that kind of the subtext of the Quiverfull movement: to advance the cause of Christian evangelism through sheer numbers?

/also education institution = vendor?
//education's not a goddamn falafel

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This is what happens when you hide your head in the sand.

Don't tell mom where you're going + wine coolers + tent + Levi Johnston = another Palin bastard born.

exactly. if Palin had been open with her daughter about sex then Bristol might have been on the pill or at the very least carried a condom around in her purse.
but no sex is sin and it's dirty and shouldn't be talked about,much less give teens birth control which as you know is a license to fark.

CrackpipeCardozo: So it not only bans non "abstinence-centered" sex education, it also creates a cause of action for parents to sue on if a "vendor" is in violation.

What if this resurgence of abstinence knee-jerkism isn't knee jerk at all; what if it's deliberate? An attempt at creating a trove ignorant dependents through a population explosion of the next generation? Isn't that kind of the subtext of the Quiverfull movement: to advance the cause of Christian evangelism through sheer numbers?

/also education institution = vendor?
//education's not a goddamn falafel

here's where we're at : if they can't shut down any and all alternatives to their dogma it's infringes upon their religious liberties.

Hobodeluxe: CrackpipeCardozo: So it not only bans non "abstinence-centered" sex education, it also creates a cause of action for parents to sue on if a "vendor" is in violation.

What if this resurgence of abstinence knee-jerkism isn't knee jerk at all; what if it's deliberate? An attempt at creating a trove ignorant dependents through a population explosion of the next generation? Isn't that kind of the subtext of the Quiverfull movement: to advance the cause of Christian evangelism through sheer numbers?

/also education institution = vendor?
//education's not a goddamn falafel

here's where we're at : if they can't shut down any and all alternatives to their dogma it's infringes upon their religious liberties.

Not only that, but the bill as it stands seems to be an explicit pronouncement that any sex-ed which doesn't focus on abstinence is a compensable harm. Strange policymaking, even by normal knee-jerk standards.

Jake Havechek: Oh for crying out loud.....

Hey Tennessee, hows that teen pregnancy rate again?

They weren't first so they thought they would try to do something about that. You have to have goals in life.

I say don't teach about sex in school.

PID is a disease that can lead to infertility. No teaching about safe sex = more PID = more infertility in red states.

MTV moving production headquarters of Teen Mom to Nashville in 3....2.....

You know TN, you think this is great because you're sticking it to those libby libs, but reality is you are harming your children.

Guidette Frankentits: I say don't teach about sex in school.

PID is a disease that can lead to infertility. No teaching about safe sex = more PID = more infertility in red states.

That would work if we could guarantee PID.

Jake Havechek: teen pregnancy rate

Ninth highest

Hey, has anybody received that zany email forward about the dangerous disease "Gonorrhea Lectim"? Apparently it's caused by having your head wedged up your ass, leading to the early symptom of voting for Obama in 2008 - and the only cure is for everybody in America to vote Republican in November, otherwise Everything will be Ruined Forever!

JohnnyC: Republicans... You're stupid.

I'm telling you this because you don't seem to realize that you're stupid and you keep trying to spread your stupidity to others. You need to stop. Just because you were raised to be stupid doesn't mean it was right to do to you and you certainly shouldn't be trying to do that to others.

It's worse than that.

They're stupid and proud of it.