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		Tennessee's "Stick Your Head In The Sand" bill heads to a floor vote. Giggity (wrcbtv.com)		14
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Hobodeluxe		2012-04-19 09:03:39 AM

6 votes:

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

JohnnyC		2012-04-19 09:35:34 AM

2 votes:

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.

PirateFreedom		2012-04-19 09:17:18 AM

2 votes:

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.

imontheinternet		2012-04-19 08:56:18 AM

2 votes:

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.

Elfich		2012-04-19 08:55:15 AM

2 votes:

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.

hubiestubert		2012-04-19 11:46:09 AM

1 votes:

Don't Troll Me Bro!: 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.

The nice thing is, in another couple of years, they can point to the rise in teen pregnancies as a sign that their state is full of the Godless, who are bringing the state down.

The obvious solution will be to issue Liberal Hunting permits. That way once the Godless are expunged from the state, then their pregnancy rates will magically lower. And they'll be a dumb ass workforce that will only be looking for subsistance wages, and give a convenient excuse to up the prison industry. It's a great plan if you want to profit from human misery AND try to take the moral high ground at the same time.

King Something		2012-04-19 10:51:29 AM

1 votes:

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.

CrackpipeCardozo		2012-04-19 09:43:28 AM

1 votes:

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

OneTimed		2012-04-19 09:22:46 AM

1 votes:

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

Christ, these people are such ignorant prudes.

Karac		2012-04-19 09:13:29 AM

1 votes:

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."

HMS_Blinkin		2012-04-19 09:01:06 AM

1 votes:

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.