Pray for STD Prevention Education
Bush supporters, social conservatives and many Republicans detest science, largely because it directly conflicts with their utopian goals of bringing us back to the mid 1800’s as a society, where we can churn our butter, keep women’s goddamn legs and mouths shut, and ride horses to Church with Adam and Eve.In the 6 year tenure of 100% Republican control, the government has launched a never ending holy war upon (among dozens of other things):
-Sex Education
-Evolution
-Global Warming
-Stem Cell Research-NASA
-Clean Air
-Clean Water
Entire books and web sites have been assembled with factual evidence, interviews and data to demonstrate countless examples of the Bush administration threatening, firing, discarding, or rewriting the opinions of well respected, world renound scientists, in order to push a more theological philosophy when it comes to educating the American public.
After all, why improve the quality of life through factual, documented research when you can make everyone adhere to the scientific method of the Bible, a book of metaphorical stories written by men 2,000 years ago solely to convince everyone to join their religion? I mean, theocracy is working well for other nations, right?
The Centers for Disease Control is hosting it’s biannual STD prevention conference next week, just got a taste of this for themselves recently.
The upcoming National STD Prevention Conference…has just been given an unhealthy shot of ideology. The conference was supposed to include a symposium designed to explore how abstinence-only sex education may undermine other efforts to reduce STDs. But now the symposium has been abruptly retooled to include two proponents of abstinence programs—and to exclude a well-respected detractor.
The symposium that's been meddled with was originally titled, "Are Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs a Threat to Public Health?" Its convener, Bruce Trigg of the New Mexico Department of Public Health, proposed a skeptical look at abstinence education, which the Bush administration is funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. As moderator, Trigg promised to ground the critique in scientific evidence.
Now called "Public Health Strategies of Abstinence Programs for Youth," the program will no longer be moderated by Trigg, though he and Santelli will still present. Smith, by contrast, has been bumped from the program.
Taking his place are two staunch proponents of abstinence-only education, Eric Walsh and Patricia Sulak. Walsh is a family physician affiliated with Loma Linda University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution in California. His approach to public health is explicitly ideological. "Dr. Walsh seeks to serve the Lord through medical missions and the preaching of the Gospel in all the world," an online bio explains. Sulak, meanwhile, is an obstetrician-gynecologist at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Texas and the founder of "Worth the Wait," an abstinence program noteworthy for its negative messages about condoms and stereotypical statements about girls and boys.
Read on.
posted by Jeremy at 6:10 PM
12 Comments:
Kids are going to have sex. I was once a kid; It's all I thought about. That makes me normal. When you're 15 and horny, you don't really think much about pregs and std's. You just wanna get laid. If you feel that your mission in life is to preach the evils of pre-marital sex, fine, preach on. But pass out the condoms. Cause kids will be kids!
the repubs and so-called christians in this country live in a fantasy world- whether it be crawford or heaven. they create their own little fantasy bubble and live in it and want to force the rest of the world to live the way that they do- in the bubble. reality is very different than their little worlds and always has been. there has always been a disconnect from reality- look at the fact that they want to preach abstinence but the porn industry is the largest money maker in this country. complete hypocrisy. how many people believe that the folks calling for any of these initiatives- but namely abstinence- abstained when they were teens? i would guess maybe 1. it's easy to have no regard for human rights, the environment, etc. when you believe that jesus is coming like tomorrow and who cares what kind of world you leave the heathens? stupidity.
Of the topic, but a respose to the question over at Rory's Beat-Down Shack.
I just got the new Ministry record. I might be a bit too bold here, but it's the best album they've done since A Mind is a Terrible thing to Taste...but better.
Nice place you got here, link added.
I wonder if Jimmy Swaggert caught an STD from the hooker he paid with donations from people who thought they were helping spread the word of God?
JG Amen...
Betmo, really well said, and honestly, when you look at most polling data, their opinions are in the absolute minority in most situations. Their marketing/cheating/lying are what get them political seats.
Time - I haven't heard that name for a long time. Have you ever heard of the new Jimmy Swaggart, the (dis)honorable Benny Hinn? Same hair, same message, different suits.
Guerrillas thanks for the visit man. I haven't listened to Ministry in a little while - I still have Psalm 69 sitting in my car's 6-disc as we speak.
As I've said before...get the new Tool. Just get it. Now.
Man you're busting me up with those 2 pics.
Great freaking post.
Peace.
Yes it was an old example, that still applies, the hypocrites.
Yes I have watched Benny's show, same old fraud.
I wonder why people who want to worship God fall for these frauds.
For the right to continue to use God to scare people into backing their conservative agenda is immoral.
That conference is a travesty.
I posted at bio some time ago about them wanting to go against recommendations for the hpv vaccine which is recommended at around age ,m in order to possible save lives, but no........who cares about saving lives when possibly, they say, it will increase sexual activity. God the idiocy is beyond my scope of thought.
The general public reallyneeds to be kept up on all the things going on in regard to not only this but the hpv vaccine ,plan b etc.
Got the new tool album a while ago. I posted a bit about it back at home (really just a story about how a janitor had a copy of it two weeks before it came out). "The Pot" just whips.
It is excellent. I've been trying to figure out what the "puzzle" is with the 4 band photos in the packaging, but nothing yet.
Hey, the Bush administration is deeply concerned with global warming, Jeremy.
Yes, I'm with Glenda and most of you, "Just Say No" hasn't worked very well!
denial. stupid people live in denial of reality. and stupid people are running the government. and they're followed by stupid people who are fixated on them like a dumb bug to a light. the rest of us can see this. and it's so incredibly frightening because of the damage they do. i have to hold onto the notion that most of us are sane. and we will win in the end. on another note, my friend just sent me this great e-mail and when i figure out how to post it i'm gonna. it's called The Decider. maybe you've seen it already. just check with me, and i'll try to have it up in the next couple of days. ciao!
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