Religious Right's Obsession With Sex Could Now Come Complete With An Actual Body Count...

Mark it down. I'm about to defend a Republican.

Texas Governor Rick Perry wants to innoculate all of his state's female children from the human papilloma virus, a sexually-transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer. A good idea since cancer is, you know, really bad and stuff.

Now, you can argue that, from a libertarian perspective, you don't want the government making that decision for you or your kids, and that's fine.

However, the conservative right is naturally turning this into a sex-obsessed inquisition.

Gov. Rick Perry stood firm Monday against a political firestorm generated by his order that sixth-grade girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.

Social conservatives from Texas to Washington called on Perry to reverse his order making Texas the first state to require the vaccine, saying the mandate makes sex seem permissible and that parents should be the ones to decide whether to immunize their daughters. And several Texas lawmakers expressed outrage at Perry for circumventing the legislative process.

Is there a more sex-obsessed group of people in this country than the religious right? This is exactly why I'm never surprised when one of these holier-than-thou assholes is proven to be steeped in hypocrisy a la Ted Haggard.

Makes you wonder if an AIDS vaccine ever comes along, would the kooky conservative right will be against that, too?
- posted by Brian @ 8:44 AM