Fundies: Gaaawwwwdddd will smite Obama if he cuts abstinence-only funding

[marmar]

from the increasingly despondent American Family Assn:



Obama would ax abstinence-only funding
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 5/11/2009 6:00:00 AM


If Congress approves President Obama's budget requests, there will be no more federal funding of abstinence-only education programs.

Barack Obama has recommended completely zeroing out Title V abstinence programs to states, as well as abstinence education programs to community-based organizations (CBAE) and replacing them with more than $100 million for contraceptive-based sex-education programs. The massive omnibus bill signed by the president had already reduced funding to abstinence programs by $14 million.

Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, questions the president's motives for axing abstinence education funding.

"His rationale is that he wants...taxpayer dollars to be going towards science-based programs -- programs that show that they are successful at reducing teen pregnancy and discouraging sexual activity," she explains.

"Well, if he's truly concerned about that then he certainly should not have zeroed out abstinence education, because it actually has more research showing its effectiveness than what he's replacing it with -- which is contraceptive sex education."

Huber believes "the health of youth is being sacrificed" for the president's appeasement of liberal special-interest groups that have been demanding he eliminate abstinence-only education funding.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=522676 (if Rickrolled, the story's in the onenewsnow area of www.afa.net )

[noiretextatique]

1. total bullshit

i bet she can't cite one scientific study that shows abstinence is more effective than education and birth control.

[depakid]

9. She can't because there aren't any

then again, when have facts and honesty ever influenced a fundy rant?

[sellitman]

2. With abstinence-only funding- pregnancies increased during shrubs mis-administration.

It's another prudent move.

Hope their heads go boom!

[underpants]

3. Does going and #$&%ing themselves count?

:shrug:

[AuroraBorealis]

4. yeah because abstinence only worked sooo well for Bristol Palin.

[Tikki]

5. Hey fundie parents...isn't it your job to teach...

your children abstinence....


President Obama is not going to stop you from teaching your children your brand of sex education.


Tikki

[muntrv]

6. Abstinence only? As in what Bristol Palin participated in?

[OHDEM]

7. Fact-based sex ed?

What IS he thinking?

[HockeyMom]

8. I would ask these Fundies one question

If contraceptives are such an abysimal failure as they say, why do married couples have so few children nowadays? Abstinence in marriage until menopause?

[burning rain]

10. They have it completely wrong.

God frowns upon those who save it for marriage. I myself am a prophet and have received this revelation, so I know it to be so. You can object that my theology is shamelessly invented, to which I can only reply that it is after all theology.