Chicago Public Schools Mandate Sex Ed Classes for Kindergarten Students

LifeNews.com:

They are much, much too young to even be thinking about sex and sexual acts at their age are the worst form of pedophilia, but Chicago public schools think little boys and girls in kindergarten are ready for sex ed classes.


From a local report:

Some people may think a five-year old is too young for sex education. Administrators with Chicago Public schools do not.

New to the curriculum this year, mandatory sexual and health education for kindergarten classes. CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker took at look at the lesson the little ones will be learning.

But parents are already up in arms about not only how appropriate the classes are but whether they distract from real education.

Like every other kindergartner, Angelina Yang is learning reading, writing, arithmetic–and now sexual health education.

“I want to know what kind of education she is receiving before she gets that education,” said Angelia’s mom, Stella. ‘As a parent, I have a right to know.”

“If he has questions, I’m happy to answer them, but I’m not sure it belongs in a classroom setting,” said parent Brooke Lyon.

“The new policy calls for 300 minutes of instruction or about 30 minutes a month,” the report says.

North Carolina is also pushing sex education programs on kids and PLanned Parenthood pushes sex ed on 11-year-olds.

ETR Associates—a sex program clearinghouse and offshoot of Planned Parenthood of Santa Cruz—admits on its webpage that a program being taught in North Carolina schools and elsewhere across the nation teaches toward four major “outcome expectancies or behavioral beliefs.” Belief number 4 is described in the ETR overview as “Hedonistic Beliefs.” Hedonistic philosophy places pleasure above everything else—as the greatest good.

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Bisexual New York City Teenagers Report Higher Rate Of Dating Violence, Rape And STD's

MSNBC.com:

Nearly 10 percent of sexually active New York City high school students say they have had at least one same-sex partner, and teens who say they've had sexual contact with both sexes report higher-than-average rates of dating violence, forced sex and risky sexual behavior, a new study says.


The study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics analyzed 17,220 public health surveys and found that more than a third of teens who had same-sex encounters identified themselves as straight. Advocates said the results point to the need for public health messages to target behavior, not identity.


It's troubling, though not surprising, that the youths who reported encounters with both sexes also had higher rates of risky behavior and violence, said Dr. Susan Blank, assistant commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.


"It has been shown in the literature that students who have both male and female partners have a lot of adverse health problems," she said.

They know homosexuality is abnormal, but it's the internal conflict within that makes them make these kind of choices.

Study Provides Evidence That Abstinence-Only Sex Education Can Be Effective

WaPo.com:

Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can convince a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported Monday in a landmark study that could have major implications for the nation's embattled efforts to protect young people against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

In the first carefully designed study to evaluate the controversial approach to sex ed, researchers found that only about a third of 6th and 7th graders who went through sessions focused on abstinence started having sex in the next two years. In contrast, nearly half of students who got other classes, including those that included information about contraception, became sexually active.

"I think we've written off abstinence-only education without looking closely at the nature of the evidence," said John B. Jemmott III, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the federally funded study. "Our study shows this could be one approach that could be used."

The research, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, comes amid intense debate over how to reduce sexual activity, pregnancies, births and sexually transmitted diseases among children and teenagers. After declining for more than a decade, births, pregnancies and STDs among U.S. teens have begun increasing again.

The Obama administration eliminated more than $150 million in federal funding targeted at abstinence programs, which are relatively new and have little rigorous evidence supporting their effectiveness. Instead it is launching a new $114 million pregnancy prevention initiative that will fund only programs that have been shown scientifically to work. The administration Monday proposed expanding that program to $183 million next year. The move came after intensifying questions about the effectiveness of abstinence programs.

Human beings aren't animals, we are perfectly capable of not having sex. Peer pressure, lack of support and ridicule from liberals are the main reasons abstinence-only education doesn't work more, but abstinence is really just about good old fashion common sense and modesty. Teenagers especially should have the option to be educated about the choice to abstain from sex, as many are not only losing out on their youth to become parents, they're suffering from the risks of having unprotected sex.

Bristol Palin Tells Oprah That She Won't Have Sex Again Until She's Married

Once again, Oprah opines from a liberal perspective. Conservatives shoot for moral standards to better themselves, understanding that they may fail. While liberals say "Why try? You might fail!"

Misunderstanding this, liberals call those who fail "hypocrites," while they themselves are immune to the charge because they believe that there are no such standards to try to live up to. Thus, liberals are really upset at Bristol Palin for promoting a standard they don't believe exists in the first place.

Peer pressure, lack of support and ridicule are the reasons that abstinence-only sex education hasn't worked more. And the fact that Bristol is willing to take a stand and try should be supported regardless if she ends up failing or not.

Obama Ending Abstinence-Only Programs

WaPo.com:

Proponents of sex education classes that focus on encouraging teenagers to remain virgins until marriage are hoping that the rescue plan for the nation's health-care system will also save their programs, which are facing extinction because of a cutoff of federal funding.

The health-care reform legislation pending in the Senate includes $50 million for programs that states could use to try to reduce pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease among adolescents by teaching to them to delay when they start having sex.

Under the federal budget signed by President Obama, such programs would no longer have funds targeted for them.

"We're optimistic," said Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association, which is lobbying to maintain funding for the programs. "Nothing is certain, but we're hopeful."

Critics of sex education programs focused on abstinence, however, are fighting to permanently end funding, saying there is clear evidence that the approach is unsuccessful.

"This is a last-ditch attempt by conservatives to resuscitate a program that has been proven to be ineffective," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington-based advocacy group. "This is the failed abstinence-only model that research has shown is ineffective."

During President George W. Bush's administration, abstinence programs received more than $100 million a year directly in federal funding and about $50 million in federal money funneled through the states. But the effort came under mounting criticism when studies concluded that the approach was ineffective and signs emerged that the long decline in teen pregnancies was faltering.

As part of Obama's first budget, Congress approved a request for more than $110 million for a new "teenage pregnancy prevention" initiative that would only fund programs that have been "proven effective through rigorous evaluation," which would effectively eliminate abstinence programs. The program would be run by a new Office of Adolescent Health in the Health and Human Services Department.

Yeah, let the teenagers continue to run wild, have sex and either get pregnant or contact an STD, after all it's the liberal way to teach our youth that their hormones should control them, not the other way around. Then too, maybe abstinence-only programs have proven to be "ineffective" because it's still the responsibility of a child's parents, teachers and other elders to teach our children values and that abstinence can be an option for them as much as the choice to have sex is--that they don't have to succumb to peer pressure, that they gave a right to say no to sex. But then the more teens get pregnant and/or catch STD's, the more funding for leftwing special-interest groups and their "victimhood" programs and Barry and his minions on the Left wouldn't want to put a stop to that.

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Obama Cuts Abstinence-Only Education Programs

ABCNews.com:

Unwed teenage mother Bristol Palin might be out there talking about abstinence, but President Obama isn't buying abstinence-only education.

Two $100 million programs from his predecessor's budget pushing abstinence only are casualties in President Obama's $3.55 trillion budget proposal.

The President is replacing them with $110 million “for teenage pregnancy prevention programs that have been proven effective through rigorous evaluation," as spelled out on pages 490 to 495 of the budget appendix.

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., applauded the move, saying "eliminating funding for ineffective abstinence-only programs is a win for science. The Obama budget proposal invests in programs that are effective and based on sound science, rather than wasting millions of dollars on efforts that have been proven to be ineffective at best."

Palin, meanwhile, told GMA's Chris Cuomo that "regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only way you can effectively, 100 percent foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy."

First of all, who the hell is Diana DeGette? And where's her proof that abstinence-only education don't work? People who run abstinence-only programs care about our youth and are committed to countering the sexual images readily seen on the likes of MTV and BET. Liberals don't like the idea of teenagers not having sex because it makes a dent in Planned Parenthood's profit margin, much less the idea continually promoted by liberals that teenagers are just horny dogs incapable of controlling their hormones. But studies have shown here in the U.S. and overseas that abstinence-only education does work and has in fact lessened sexual activity amongst out young folks. But hey, forget all that because Barry has a white, liberal base that he must cater too, so anything Bush-related just has to go, no matter how positive and effective it was.

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This is the kind of activism that's needed, esp. in minority communities where sexual promiscuity and pregnancies are on the up and up with your youth--all for Planned Parenthood to take advantage of and pocket our dough. Liberals think giving a teenager the option of not having sex is stupid because it sends a message of valuing oneself that defies their immoral agenda, not because they actually care about the safety and future of our youth.

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Proof That Abstinence Education Does Work

Abstinence education, an option for our youth that if practiced is guaranteed to prevent disease and pregnancies, is a useful tool that the sex-obsessed, just-use-a-condom, billion-dollar abortion industry supporting liberal abhors and continually states is nothing but a failure. Yet, in certain areas around the world its worked to startling effect:

“We understand that casual sex is dear to you, but staying alive is dear to us.”

The Washington Post provided a rare service on Monday, shining light on an unfolding scandal of deadly political correctness in Uganda.

The quote above is from “Let My People Go, AIDS Profiteers,” an op-ed column in the Post by the Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee.

Ruteikara details how Uganda’s successful ABC campaign (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Condoms as a last resort) recorded huge advances in reducing infections from 1991 through 2002, but was subverted by an AIDS establishment that dislikes Uganda’s emphasis on marriage and faithfulness.

HIV rates plunged from 21 percent in 1991 to 6 percent in 2002 in Uganda during the stricken nation’s campaign to restore traditional morality. Meanwhile, as Western nations dropped more than 2 billion condoms on Africa, other nations suffered an unabated epidemic. Uganda stuck out as the grand exception.

25% Of Teenage Girls Have An STD

Boston Globe:

About 1 in 4 teenage girls in the United States - and nearly half of black girls - has at least one sexually transmitted disease, according to a study released yesterday, providing the first national snapshot of infection rates among this age group.

Those numbers translate into an estimated 3.2 million adolescent females infected with one of the four most common STDs - many of whom may not even know they have a disease or that they are passing it to their sex partners.

"What we found is alarming," said Dr. Sara Forhan, a researcher with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the study's lead author. "This means that far too many young women are at risk for the serious health effects of untreated STDs, including infertility and cervical cancer."

The study's authors analyzed data on 838 girls between ages 14 and 19 who participated in the 2003-04 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, an annual study that assesses a broad range of health issues. For the analysis, the teens were tested for human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, trichomoniasis, and herpes. By far, the most common sexually transmitted disease was HPV. Of those infected, 15 percent had more than one STD.

Now I know that liberals just shrug their shoulders to this sort of thing with the blase attitude of "they're going to have sex anyway". And I know that abstinence education is a all-too dangerous concept that must be kept away from our kids at all costs. But considering Eliot Spitzer's resignation yesterday amidst word coming out that he spent like $80,000+ on hookers for the last 10 or so years. I can't help but guess that the Governor's favorite hooker, 22-year-old "Kristen", probably started having sex when she was really young too. I mean, lets not kid ourselves here, considering the sexualization of our culture and all . . . and "high-priced call girls"? Well, they certainly weren't born that way.

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Lenny Kravitz Quote of the Day!

"(It's) just a promise I made until I get married. Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture."

- rocker Lenny Kravitz on his choice to be celibate for 3 years now

Syphilis Returns To Europe

Because teaching young adults about abstinence is definitely a stupid thing to do:

LONDON - Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe.

Syphilis used to be a very rare disease," said Dr. Marita van de Laar, an expert in sexually transmitted diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. "I'm not sure we can say that anymore."

Most cases of syphilis are in men, and experts point to more risky sex among gay men as the chief cause for the resurgence. But more cases are being seen among heterosexuals, both men and women, too.

Syphilis was the sexual scourge of the 19th Century, and is believed to have killed artists like poet Charles Baudelaire, composer Robert Schumann, and painter Paul Gauguin. But the widespread use of penicillin in the 1950s all but wiped it out in the Western world.

In the last decade, however, syphilis has unexpectedly returned, driven by risky sexual behavior and outbreaks in major cities across Europe, including London, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin.