At What Price Victory?

In order to pass their budget, House Democrats have proposed increasing the funding of a harmful abstinence-only program

By Lindsay Beyerstein

The House Appropriations Committee subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education shocked many progressives in early June when it approved a $32 million increase for the discredited Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program. The extra money seems particularly strange, since congressional Democrats announced last month [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Abstinence as a government funded program is a total waste of money. It’s an ideological and religious-based agenda that has no practical value. The program will increase clandestine masturbations and extra-marital affairs that will go on continuously because religious folk don’t believe in getting a divorce. People need to be in touch with their bodies and with each other. Repression and authoritarianism does not teach us that.

    United States Posted by Epistrophy on Jun 13, 2007 at 5:07 AM

    Just say no to sex. Only a very warped mind could conceive of that as being viable for teen-ager’s.
    There is supposed to be a separation of Church and State in this country. While there is a general acknowledgment of God, no specific’s are included. And that is as it should be.
    That some supporter’s of this administration are making bucks off these type’s of program’s is no surprise. All administrations do something along that line. However, this administration has carried such actions to new levels, all the while saying that we need to be fiscally responsible.
    Shrub did not appear to know what a veto was when the Republican’s were in control, although his illegal signing statements amounted to the same thing. Reckon there were national security implications to his using the signing statement’s.
    But now that his actions have cost the Republican’s control of Congress, he is more than willing to veto any and everything.

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