Religious, anti-abortion groups among the winners as abstinence-only fundi

[kayell]

http://www.wokr13.tv/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=E0E77F14-44A2-4E7C-8A1A-9278304B4584

NEW YORK (AP) - As President Bush seeks to double funding for abstinence-only education, skeptics are urging closer scrutiny of the grant recipients - many of them religious and anti-abortion groups which in the past did not operate extensively in public schools.

Instructors from such groups already have been appearing at hundreds of schools across the nation, supported by state and federal funds. They teach a curriculum that excludes information about "safe sex" and exhorts young people to be chaste until marriage.

Bush, while trying to cut spending on many other domestic programs, has proposed doubling abstinence-education funding to $270 million for the coming fiscal year. "Abstinence for young people is the only certain way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases," he said in his State of the Union speech.

Supporters of the program are elated at the growing opportunities to spread the abstinence message, and counter societal trends that they believe are encouraging teenage promiscuity.

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[bluestateguy]

1. How about federal funding for "reparative" therapy for gays?

I'm sure that's on the White House Christmas list too.

[Gman]

2. Teenage promiscuity is the issue that keeps on giving

I'm almost 50 and I don't ever remember this not being a right wing fundie wingnut issue.

[xchrom]

3. amen

they have been pounding the public over the head with this crap for so long -- but genie is out of the bottle.
and genies, once out, are often too big to go back in.

[xxqqqzme]

4. A little older

than U but I 2 remember controversy surrrounding 'sex education' when I was in jr hi. It preplexed me then as it does now!