Thursday, December 2, 2004
Bush Education Policy: Keep Our Kids Stupid...
(via AmericaBlog)
The Bushies make no bones about not liking intelligence. They pretend to give two shits about educating America's kids, but if those kids learn too much, they'll eventually be labeled "intellectual elitists" by many conservatives.
Case in point: Bush's devotion to "abstinence-only" sex education. Check out the misconceptions (no pun intended) held by participants in abstinence-only programs:
- A 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person."
- HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be spread via sweat and tears.
- Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as often as 31 percent of the time in heterosexual intercourse.
- Abortion can lead to sterility and suicide.
- Half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus
- Touching a person's genitals "can result in pregnancy."
- Men need for "admiration" and "sexual fulfillment" compared with a woman's need for "financial support."
- Columbia University researchers found that although teenagers who take "virginity pledges" may wait longer to initiate sexual activity, 88 percent eventually have premarital sex.
Gotta keep 'em stupid so they won't realize we're screwing them! (Again, no pun intended)
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