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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Fri May 31, 2013, 10:30 AM May 2013

TN Public School Brings in Unqualified Christian Women to Teach Students About Sex-

[font size ="4"]and Guess How That Went?[/font]

Let’s run through a short list of items a quality sex education lecture for teenagers shouldn’t include:

■Having students spit into a cup and then telling the class that drinking that cup is the equivalent of having sex with eight partners.
■Arguing that condoms break… so they’re not helpful at all.
■Telling ladies that they’re emotional after sex, so they’ll become attached to whomever they have sex with.
■Tell students that STIs will make them sterile… without adding that that might happen only if left untreated.
■State that medical textbooks say life begins at conception… when they don’t say that at all.
■Saying “There’s a new STD that they’re saying is going to be the new AIDS” without elaborating further… so no sex for anyone!
■Telling the students that you know two women who have had abortions and they both ended up with a perforated uterus because of the tools used during their procedures… so no abortions for anyone!

Those were among the things Joi Wasill, the founder of Decisions, Choices and Options (a group with “strong Christian, Republican and anti-abortion ties”), and Beth Cox, who is on the board of directors for the group, said to a group of students at Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tennessee earlier this month.

Thankfully, one of the students recorded the talk. Excerpts are below:

http://bcove.me/mi78ooox


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TN Public School Brings in Unqualified Christian Women to Teach Students About Sex- (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone May 2013 OP
Unbelievable. nt Fantastic Anarchist May 2013 #1
So clearly unconstitutional, where is the ACLU? N/t alp227 May 2013 #2
As Michael Jackson used to quip: libodem May 2013 #3
christian/republican/fascists have no problem with lying MsPithy May 2013 #4
A clear sign that your movement is on the correct side of history jeff47 May 2013 #5
Kinda like having George W. Bush teach elocution. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2013 #6
As an old guy; greiner3 May 2013 #8
"Is our children learning"? Uh no they isn't. Initech May 2013 #12
"...STI..." greiner3 May 2013 #7
Sexually Transmitted Ickiness? Shrike47 May 2013 #9
Ugh... sakabatou May 2013 #10
Hillsboro was one of my highschools. blackspade May 2013 #11
Why are people who don't know a damn thing about sex teaching sex education? Initech May 2013 #13
A missionary on missionary. nt Pragdem May 2013 #14
kr HiPointDem May 2013 #15
Completely ignoring the fact that the highest rate of unwanted pregnancies are in these lindysalsagal May 2013 #16
 

greiner3

(5,214 posts)
8. As an old guy;
Fri May 31, 2013, 01:03 PM
May 2013

It takes me longer to see, register and then think.

At first glance I thought you wrote, 'edumacation.'

sakabatou

(42,186 posts)
10. Ugh...
Fri May 31, 2013, 01:06 PM
May 2013
Tennessee students aren’t receiving those skills in their health classes. The state’s sex ed classes aren’t required to be medically accurate


Now that should be a glaring warning sign.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
11. Hillsboro was one of my highschools.
Fri May 31, 2013, 01:30 PM
May 2013

I remember how backward ass things were then. apparently I was mistaken.....

lindysalsagal

(20,747 posts)
16. Completely ignoring the fact that the highest rate of unwanted pregnancies are in these
Fri May 31, 2013, 03:52 PM
May 2013

backwards southern fundie states.

In NY, the rate is lower, and we have real sex ed.

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