Proposed Kentucky Law: Abstinence Is the Expected Standard in Sex Ed

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Source: motherjones








Southern legislators mull over how to teach kids about the birds and the bees.

Becca Andrews Jan. 16, 2018 6:00 AM
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Kentucky currently has no law dictating how sex education should be taught, although the state’s Department of Education is working on guidelines for health classes in public schools, which generally include some form of sex ed. State Democrats recently introduced House Bill 80 that would require “age appropriate” sex ed to begin in the fourth grade and continue through 12th grade.

Republican state Sen. Stephen Meredith, on the other hand, wants every grade to learn the same thing: He introduced a Senate bill to require sex ed classes to teach that “abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for school-age children.”

In a Senate committee hearing on Thursday to discuss Meredith’s bill, state Sen. Danny Carroll, a Republican who voted in favor of SB 71, explained his rationale for requiring abstinence and monogamy as the standard in sex ed classes: “As a society, if we don’t set some baselines for our children, there are going to be no limits,” he said, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

The bill was criticized for its narrow ideology by comprehensive sex education advocates and community faith leaders, the Courier-Journal reports. Rev. Lauren Jones Mayfield, a pastor at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, said the bill “assumes sex is between a married man and woman in a Christian home,” and criticized abstinence education for placing responsibility on women to be gatekeepers and creating a culture of shame around sex.........................................

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/proposed-kentucky-law-abstinence-is-the-expected-standard-in-sex-ed/

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This makes me so so so ANGRY!

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Fine, teach abstinence, but you should also be teaching how babies are made, so they have some clue.
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Toni Blake
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31m31 minutes ago

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That is Catholic law, not constitutional law.
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Heather McAllister
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What could possibly go wrong??
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Lynne Aldridge
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If it were "Gun Ed", fair enough. But this is the 21st century - do they realise that?
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[genxlib]

1. Golly gee

Everyone knows that teenagers do exactly what adults want them to do.

This pisses me off.

I am a big believer in comprehensive and accurate sex-ed. My daughter took hers and I was so impressed with the results that I signed on to teach the next generation.

I am not a natural fit for teaching sex education but I refuse to sit by while kids don't get the info they need. Having taught it, I became an even bigger proponent.

[jimmil]

2. Nature spent millions of years perfecting reproduction.

Dictating how it should work now isn't going to work.

[Liberalagogo]

3. DON'T HAVE SEX KIDS!

But you be damn sure to make me LOTS of grandchildren!

Of course those two things are unrelated!

[truthisfreedom]

4. Barefoot and pregnant!

That’s how them Kentuckians like their republican girlies!

[olddad56]

5. do they still have to abstain even if they are siblings or cousins?

[Ilsa]

6. Expect teen pregnancy rate to increase in a few years. nt

[Old Crank]

7. Then it is time.....

Then it is time to demand that ALL fertile males wear chastity belts. All teh time until married and then when they leave their houses.

[Kristofer Bry]

8. But of Course

After all, such policies have worked so fucking magnificently in other states!

[sarcasmo]

9. Many states make Idiocracy look like a Documentary.

[eissa]

10. Well, it worked well for Bristol Palin

Oh wait....

[AtheistCrusader]

11. It did, actually. It's become a career for her.

A joke of a career but a career nonetheless.

[metalbot]

12. "Outside of marriage"?

That just reads strangely in the context of:

"abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for school-age children."

I mean, once you describe someone as a "school-age child", I feel like marriage shouldn't really be on the table.

[GulfCoast66]

13. Are you kidding me? This is Kentucky...

Them girls are right for marrin’ by 9th grade!

And before alerting! It is true. They can marry under the correct scenario

[sakabatou]

14. I expect KY's unwanted pregnancies to rise thanks to Bevin and his cronies

[Dr_Pretorius]

15. Good luck with that, dumbasses

Already proven not to work.

[jmowreader]

16. I have a better idea.

Instead of teaching sex education, let's just teach our teenage girls how to care for a baby and our teenage boys how to look for a damn job so they can pay their child support.

Either that, or we could get kids' parents to visit the classroom telling the young'uns how great sex is, how they just LOVE to have sex, all that jive...since no kid ever wants to do what his parents like, this will work just about as well as abstinence-only sex ed.