Abstinence - isn’t just for kids anymore!
October 31, 2006 · By Greg Farries
The United States government is expanding its no sex before marriage program outside of its historical target group,
the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.The government says the change is a clarification. But critics say it’s a clear signal of a more directed policy targeting the sexual behavior of adults.
Naturally, there are a few people who are upset,
“They’ve stepped over the line of common sense,” said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports sex education. “To be preaching abstinence when 90% of people are having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It’s an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health.”
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“We would oppose any program that stigmatizes unmarried people,” adds Nicky Grist, executive director of the Alternatives to Marriage Project, a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that advocates for the rights of unmarried people.
Strangely enough, there is a group that “[advocates] for equality and fairness for unmarried people, including people who choose not to marry, cannot marry, or live together before marriage.
What a goddamn waste of tax payers money. Doesn’t the government have more pressing things to worry about? God bless America (they need it).
Until the adults are abstinent before marriage, it’ll be a tough sell to kids.
And you think it is the place of governments to tell adults when and when not to have sex? Couldn’t they spend that money making sure poor kids are being fed lunches in school?
Give me a break Susanne. If you want to ask George when you can have sex, then go ahead.
Ridiculous.
“Until the adults are abstinent before marriage, it’ll be a tough sell to kids.”
It will always be a tough sell then.
Couldn’t they spend that money making sure poor kids are being fed lunches in school?
Well. Once you open the pandora’s box of cigarettes and say the gov’t should intervene in public health issues, then I think a case can be made that gov’t involvement in the 8,767 types of STD’s requires their engineering of people’s behaviour.
So. To add insult to injury, they’ll now have more to say about when and with whom you can have sex and mighty angry if you light up a cigarette afterward.
Typical. Government is forever attempting to infantalize adults. This lets government expand power. Any excuse will do (for tyrants).
Also, we see here yet another exaple of government treating citizens as chattel who do not own even their own bodies.
Government words aside, government actions loudly proclaim, “We own you, slave.”
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