Utah senate votes to stop discussion of homosexuality in schools

[WillParkinson]

Utah senate votes to stop discussion of homosexuality in schools

Utah’s state legislature has passed a bill this week making sex education lessons optional and prohibiting the discussion of homosexuality and instructions on how to use contraception.

The senate at Salt Lake City voted 19-10 in favour of the bill.

If Utah’s Republican governor signs the bill into law, the state will become the first in the union to stop teachers telling pupils about contraception as a way of protecting themselves from infections and unwanted pregnancies.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports Senator Stuart Reid saying: “To replace the parent in the school setting, among people who we have no idea what their morals are, we have no ideas what their values are, yet we turn our children over to them to instruct them in the most sensitive sexual activities in their lives, I think is wrongheaded.”

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/08/utah-senate-votes-to-stop-discussion-of-homosexuality-in-schools/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This is Romneys church at it's finest!!!!

[Politicalboi]

2. See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil

I guess it will all go away if we only stop talking about it. Wow, that was easy. LOL!

[BeeBee]

3. I'm so glad I don't live in that state anymore. n/t

[qb]

4. They should take a close look at the $270K Anoka-Hennepin (Bachmann's district) just paid

to settle a suit over the rampant anti-gay bullying that resulted from a similar policy.
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/141427303.html

They are short-sighted, hateful bastards.

[msongs]

5. we know what LDS values are yet our kids are not protected from THOSE in schools nt

[RetiredTrotskyite]

6. Yeah, Like Not Talking About Something...

ever made it not exist. So tired of these idiot religious bigots.

[Vanje]

7. Are we going backwards in time?

Jeezus.

[Shannon1981]

8. Bills Such as These..

are not only idiotic and backwards, but dangerous. This is not the 1970's where the most serious thing that could happen was a pregnancy. These days, if you are a teen mom, that's awful, but it pales in comparison to AIDS and other infections. Furthermore, this legislation basically tells gay kids that they pretty much do not exist. And SEX EDUCATION IS OPTIONAL?!?!?! Jesus H. Christ. If they think Mormonism = guaranteed purity and heterosexuality, they are sadly mistaken.

[Duncan Grant]

9. What a ridiculous strategy to "disappear" LGBT people.

Dear Utah State Legislature,

It's 2012. Stop being such a f*cking anachronism.

Sincerely,
Duncan Grant
(Gay man who doesn't give two figs for your clenched-sphinctered selective morality)