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originally posted in:Secular Sevens
1/31/2013 10:15:13 PM
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I sort of don't blame Tennessee. I'd have to see the entire build to nitpick at it, but in sum, the bill is about to exclude talk of homosexuality from school. There is nothing wrong with that in thought. Schools are academic institutions. You're meant to learn subjects such as English, Math, Science, History, and so forth. What does homosexuality, let alone heterosexuality bring to school? Absolutely nothing. It is a gender/sexuality topic and it has no hard academic purpose in grades K - 8.
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Edited by Mad Max: 1/31/2013 11:11:10 PMSexual education is VERY important. States that don't have sex ed courses, or teach abstinence-only education, have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation. Explicitly removing homosexuality from it sends a very clear message to the LGBT community: "we're just going to pretend you don't exist"
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Sorry, I went out for dinner and rock climbing. Sexual education is important. I believe that sexual education should be first and for most about protection, why people do it, and the consequences explained if you are promiscuous and don't use protection. But, why must sexual education discuss the difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality? They're different preferences and perspectives. Talking about homosexuality, in the context of sexual education because that IS what we're talking about as opposed to roles of people that are homosexual. The only way that the LGBT (I hate that term so much for different reasons. You're bundling people up while homosexuality has absolute no connection to transgenderism or bisexuality whatsoever) community would be alienated is if you retardize sex-ed to talking about the pleasure or life out of sex-ed. There is no heterosexuality community that is being discussed in these classes, they are purely about the anatomy of sex and how it stresses the importance of using contraceptives. Besides, when did it become the obligation of the state to tell children about sex? That is another entirely different story. You can't blame high teen pregnancy rate to states that don't have sex ed courses. They may correlate but you can't say it is the causation of it.
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[quote]States that don't have sex ed courses, or teach abstinence-only education, have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation.[/quote] Just thought I would point out that this isn't always the case, my state has abstinence-only education, and was 46th in the nation for teen pregnancies in 2005. (Sorry, wish I had a more current statistic, but it was the newest I could find.)
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While there's always exceptions to the rule - the more educated you are about sex, the less likely you are to get pregnant. That was my point. There's nothing bad that could come from having a solid sexual education course.
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Very true as well. Just thought I would point out the exception in my case.
