Family Research Council: We Should ‘Punish’ Premarital Sex, We Never Gave Young People The Right...

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/family-research-council-we-should-punish-premarital-sex-we-never-gave-young-people-the-right-to-do-it/

Family Research Council: We Should ‘Punish’ Premarital Sex, We Never Gave Young People The Right To Do It

Continuing what seems to be a news week full of doofuses making a fool of themselves over sexual politics, a Family Research Council leader took to the radio to say that we ought to punish premarital sex like we used to… because young people were never given the “right” to have sexual intercourse outside of marriage.

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[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Gawd!!!!! That's All We Need Is The Sex Police

I told you so. There is no limit. Chastity belts and virgin tests. YOU JUST WANT TO SCREAM SOME DAYS.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Considering the lack of birth control and other alternatives in fundie households...

... abstinence is a reasonable alternative.

[muntrv]

3. Ahem, fundies....

Sun Mar 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM PDT.

Telling teens to just say no to sex doesn't work, so let's waste half a billion dollars doing that

by Kaili Joy GrayFollow for Daily Kos.
In case you were worried that House Republicans haven't come up with any ingenious new ways to waste a whole bunch of your money, worry no more:

Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.) on Monday called for the creation of a new federal grant program that would spend half a billion dollars to educate teenagers about why they should not have sex before marriage.
In a speech on the House floor, Hultgren cited a Centers for Disease Control report from mid-February that said young adults account for 50 percent of all sexually transmitted disease infections.
It's almost too easy, right? If teens are spreading diseases by having sex, we'll just create some government programs—we all know how much Republicans love creating government programs—to tell them to stop doing that. And because teenagers are known as the most obedient and compliant people on the planet, that should fix that problem double-quick. Who can forget how Nancy Reagan singlehandedly eradicated drug use with her super effective "Just Say No" program?
There's just one little problem with abstinence-only education. It doesn't work. In fact, it makes things worse. Head below the fold to find out why.
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The idea of telling kids to just not have sex is pretty stupid on its face, but there's actually research and studies and science—you know, all that stuff Republicans hate—to show just how stupid, not to mention dangerous, these policies are:


After years of warning the Bush administration and social conservatives that abstinence-only education does not stop teens from having sex, nor does it prevent teen pregnancy, a new study by the Guttmacher Institute confirms what many have feared: that deliberately misinforming teens about sex can have serious consequences and that comprehensive sex education, in addition to the availability of contraception, is the best way to reduce teen pregnancy rates

SEE MORE AT LINK BELOW

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/10/1191860/-Telling-teens-to-just-say-no-to-sex-doesn-t-work-so-let-s-waste-half-a-billion-dollars-doing-that

[Swede Atlanta]

4. Ummm...I think the Supreme Court has already ruled on that.....

The court has already said that consensual intimate relations between two persons of different genders or the same gender is protected under the Constitution's right to privacy.

So there is no legal means to "punish" premarital sex. Private individuals, families and organizations can do so subject to legal limits. For example a father couldn't tie his daughter to her bedpost and deny her food and water because she had sex. But he might deny her her allowance or require her to be home at 9 p.m. every night.

But we all know the following......

Adolescents have raging hormones. They have intense natural, biological needs around their sexuality
Providing these adolescents with information and access to contraception, especially those that extend protections against STDs (i.e. condoms) are the most effective in preventing unwanted pregnancies and the transmission of STDs

[pipoman]

5. Sounds like something

Mayor Bloomberg could really get behind..

[riverbendviewgal]

6. sounds like the Taliban

oh, it is...but it is the christian taliban.

[tanyev]

7. Somebody's itching to throw some stones.

[Thinkingabout]

8. Perhaps some should throw some money to educate those like Todd Akin.

He must have slept through some of his classes.

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. knr - this should go viral - people should know what the Family Research Council actually believes