Bank Run Burr still backs funding for ineffective abstinence education

Submitted by James on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 12:39pm

My wife got a letter from Senator Burrs when she wrote to inquire about his misguided enthusiasm for abstinence only sex education.

I believe it is important that we promote safe and healthy choices to our children, as well as focus on protecting them from abuse and teaching them to reject inappropriate sexual pressure. I believe an appropriate abstinence program reinforces these values and allows age appropriate discussion of contraception, with abstinence promoted as the only option that is 100 percent effective.

That's a Five Burrs Letter if every there was one. Not only is he whining about runaway federal spending, he's also supporting a program that has been proven utterly ineffective and actually counterproductive.

It's hard to understand Burr's pathological ignorance. Or maybe he's just a freakin' moron.

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Submitted by Apex Rich on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 1:00pm.

I have no love for Burr, but in this case, I think he (or at least the words he says) might have a point.

allows age appropriate discussion of contraception, with abstinence promoted as the only option that is 100 percent effective.

Ignoring the fact that his definition of the appropriate age is likely age of death plus ten minutes, is that really such a bad policy?

To be clear, I am 100% opposed to abstinence only. What I am saying is that an abstinence first policy seems like a good idea to me.

Perhaps I am just in a dreamworld where the people who mention abstinence in the context of sex ed aren't all fundie lunatics bent on theocracy.

Bingo

Submitted by usernamehere on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 1:20pm.

Perhaps I am just in a dreamworld...

While you were helping the Wake County KKK Taliban take control of the school board, the NC division of the Taliban was bitterly opposing any attempt to bring the sex ed curriculum back to where it was BEFORE the mid 1990s.

Damn, even I got more complete sex ed in NC than these kids have in the past 15 years.

Take a look through teh google.

 

Oh very nice

Submitted by Apex Rich on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 2:00pm.

Here is a link for you. Unless you believe that sex ed is the most important issue, you might want to lower the rhetoric a touch.

Me, I'll take the end of a policy that panders to the wealthy and is designed to appease corporate interests by hiding the plight of the needy in exchange for having to teach my own kids sex ed. How about you?

Religious fundamentalist bigots are everywhere

Submitted by usernamehere on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 2:09pm.

...even your quaint corner of North Carolina.

Would it make you feel better if I called them "CHRISTIAN Taliban"

"Taliban" by itself has such a dark people Muslimish feeling.

Then again, Christianity and Islam are both Abrahamic religions, so what's the big whoop?

Afghan Taliban leaders: We don't want those people (or girls) to go to school in our areas.

Wake County Taliban leaders: We don't want those people to go to school in our neighborhoods.

It's just a matter of degree.

Injustice anywhere...wait, he was a Christian pastor.

 

No, it doesn't matter what you call them

Submitted by Apex Rich on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 2:13pm.

You and I likely feel the same way about them on this issue. And while you may be right in your judgment of their motivations (although I doubt entirely) that doesn't change the fact that they were 100% on the right side of what I see as the most critical education issue facing Wake County, whether they knew it or not. So they got my support.

From Dictionary.com

Submitted by boball on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 1:39pm.

an⋅i⋅mal

  /ˈænəməl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [an-uh-muhl]

–noun

1. any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.

2. any such living thing other than a human being.

3. a mammal, as opposed to a fish, bird, etc.

4. the physical, sensual, or carnal nature of human beings; animality: the animal in every person.

5. an inhuman person; brutish or beastlike person: "She married an animal."

6. thing: "A perfect job? Is there any such animal?"

So many choices...

re⋅pro⋅duc⋅tion
  /ˌriprəˈdʌkʃən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ree-pruh-duhk-shuhn]

–noun

1. the act or process of reproducing.

2. the state of being reproduced.

3. something made by reproducing an original; copy; duplicate: a photographic reproduction; a reproduction of a Roman vase.

4. Biology. the natural process among organisms by which new individuals are generated and the species perpetuated.

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That pesky biology! I vote for the Roman vase :)

-b

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There cannot fail to be more kinds of things, as nature grows further disclosed. - Sir Francis Bacon

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Submitted by James on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 4:10pm.

Click the mouthpiece for the whole story:

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