Did you know that "The federal government's no sex without marriage message isn't just for kids anymore"?!
Now 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.
Such boldness in the face of the facts! The National Center for Health Statistics says
"well over 90% of adults ages 20-29 have had sexual intercourse." Some states have already
bowed out of the program; New Jersey, California, Maine and Pennsylvania have said,"thanks, but no thanks". Those crazy liberal bastions of foolishness seem to value HIV/AIDS education more than Uncle Sam's cash. Of course,
Dobson's boys are on the case, predicting that "negative outcomes will spring up like weeds in the Garden State."
Please don't let it bother you that the states that take your tax dollars- like Virginia, can
spend their Title V funds on a Christian comedian to spread the word about abstinence. "The program fits in, said public schools spokesman Wayde Byard, with the state's requirement to include abstinence as a part of the Family Life Education curriculum.
All this expansion, even though Abstinence education
doesn't work. and has even created such phenomena as
Pregnancy High, a Canton, Ohio High School where - "during the 2004-2005 school year, 64 of the 490 girls in the school got pregnant. That's right - 13% of the female students got pregnant". They have an "abstinence-based sex-ed policy... Ironically, the school mascot is the Trojan."
Now I know I live in bizarro world. It didn't work on the under aged - and still living at home - so lets throw some cash at the independent adults. Oy.
Interesting note -
This article from the Guardian claims that, according to
Title V : "The grant program affected by the new guidelines distributes funds to states based on a formula weighted to favor those with more low-income children.
For every $4 received from the federal government, the states must match it with $3 of their own. Does this mean that poorer states have to "pay to play" the abstinence game?
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