The Utah house has passed a bill which prohibits sexual education in public schools. If schools do choose to teach sex ed, abstinence-only sex ed is required. House representatives have cited intellectual reasons for this, as well as honesty. Oh Utah, you rode the short bus to school, didn't you? State Representative Bill Wright offered the following explanation:
"We've been culturally watered down to think we have to teach about sex, about having sex and how to get away with it, which is intellectually dishonest," Wright said, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. "Why don't we just be honest with them upfront that sex outside marriage is devastating?"
Honest? Oh Mr. Wright, that's precious. Let's be honest and recognize that school districts that teach abstinence-only education have consistently higher teen pregnancy rates. Let's be honest and give students the real facts about the dangers of sex and smart ways to prevent those dangers, because if Mr. Wright thinks that this bill is going to stop teenagers from having sex, he's not being honest with himself.
What can we infer from the house bill? Well, children, it would seem that your representatives would rather allow for an atmosphere that will statistically increase your chances of teenage parenthood and contracting STDs than teach you about...
shh... gather round, gotta be quiet cuz this is a secret
"sex"
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/abstinence-only-sex-educa_n_1297238.html
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