Brain Fertilizer

One of the tenets of morality is that sexual intercourse is a private, personal, intimate, modest issue.

Funny how 'responsible' somehow didn't make that list... So if all you're going to teach your kid about having sex is that you should bury it in a dark corner somewhere, what on Earth do you expect will happen to that kid when they're out of your supervision and hearing the warm throbs of hormones in high gear? Paradise by the dashboard light and all that?

If 'secrecy' is all you have to offer, be grateful at least that there's a school system out there that's willing (and required) to pass on the icky and necessary facts.

"At a guess, I think the biggest problem with it is that all those conservative parents wouldn't be teaching their kids that's it's okay to "explore their sexuality", making it the field that much less fertile (pun intended this time) for Planned Parenthood's message of "Go ahead and have sex, cuz we'll help you get abortions whenver you want one!""

Are you seriously suggesting that Planned Parenthood is openly propagating abortions? That there is some benefit to them from all this?

This is not 'brain fertilizer', buddy. These are brain farts, and mighty meek ones at that.

As for the rest of this twisted post of yours, do you really think that in sex-ed classes kids are discouraged from talking to their parents about these issues any less so than in classes addressing drug use?

Oh, so if I don't make the list 100% exhaustive, that nullifies my whole point. Gee.

Are you seriously suggesting that Planned Parenthood is openly propagating abortions?
Yes. Go check out some of the crap they have on Teenwire.

Twisted post? Hmm. Well, everyone's entitled to an opinion. But when the rubber hits the road, abandoning morality and yes, responsibility, to erode morals and make sex a public experience has ruined and ended more lives than any war, ever. 30 million in the US alone just from Roe V. Wade...

Yepp, you're mischaracterizing what Nathan said. His point is not that sex should be "buried in a dark corner somewhere." He's saying -- and I agree -- that sex is a personal and intimate thing, and discussions about it should not be taking place in groups in a classroom. Such discussions tend to depersonalize sex, which in turn has the effect of devaluing the individuals participating in it -- "hey kids, at this age, you are essentially nothing more than the sum of your hormonal urges, which you are helpless to control, so here's how to deal with it 'safely'." The problem is that with young women age 15 - 25 the largest number of new HIV cases each year, and girls who are sexually active in their high school years are two and three times more likely to suffer from depression, obesity and self-esteem issues as adults, and have significantly higher suicide rates than their abstinent peers. There isn't anything "safe" about these programs.

Are you seriously suggesting that Planned Parenthood is openly propagating abortions? That there is some benefit to them from all this? They do in fact openly advocate abortion as birth control, as do NARAL and NOW, as a form of "choice." As for the benefits to them, how about the millions and millions of dollars in federal aid and tax breaks they get each year?