Tag Archives: abstinence education

Ms Magazine reports: Since 1981, Congress has spent over $2.2 billion on shame-based, abstinence-only sex education programs—even though data shows that those very programs are failing. One 2011 study funded by the University of Georgia Research Foundation concluded teens in states that prescribe more abstinence education are actually more likely to become pregnant. Comprehensive sex education curriculums could be the …

“While I’m excited and thankful to be returning to Dancing With The Stars, not everyone is thrilled I’m coming back. When the new contestants participated in a panel discussion for the Television Critics Association’s summer tour, the critics’ disdain for me was obvious. While they asked many questions (or, really, just a few questions over and over), only one stands …

As a vengeful God continues to destroy their home state, Focus On The Family takes advantage of the inferno ravaging their neighbors to argue that Colorado’s wildfires should teach us a lesson on the importance of abstinence-only education. SRSLY. From their blogger Chad Hills: Today, in the state of Colorado, we are breathing smoke from a number of wildfires burning …

Tennessee’s legislature approved a statewide abstinence-only sex education bill in May, drawing wide ridicule because public school students were banned from “gateway sexual activity” like holding hands. The law went into effect this week with the revelation that it was a public service announcement from an AIDS group that had prompted the bill. A new law banning explicit sex education, …

The Utah House has passed a bill banning any mention of contraception in sex education classes. If a school does offer sex ed, it has to be abstinence only. The state House passed HB 363 in a 45-28 vote following extensive debate. The bill — which now goes on to the state Senate — would lift the current requirement that …

Although neither of them has any say in city government, both of NYC’s GOP members of the U.S. House have come out against the city’s recently approved sex ed curriculum. Reps. Bob Turner (R-Queens, Brooklyn) and Michael Grimm (R-S.I., Brooklyn) joined NYC Parents’ Choice Coalition in lobbying for a change. “Parents had no say in this mandate,” Turner said. “The …

Focus On The Family is thrilled to announce that freshman teabagger Rep. Randy Hultgren (R) has introduced a bill to revive the funding for abstinence education. Valerie Huber, Executive Director of the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) based in Washington, D.C., said in a press release, “Since President Obama chose to eliminate all funding for abstinence education, this bill is …

The anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund has entered the long-running battle to get public school systems to stop blocking websites that are useful to LGBT students. According to an ADF letter sent to several school districts, administrators are within their legal rights to ignore ACLU demands to lift the bans. Via the Christianist news outlet, OneNewsNow: The ACLU is presently suing …

Despite all the data to contradict his position, Texas Gov. Rick Perry sits there and shamelessly tells the show’s moderator that “abstinence education works.” Watch this clip for a horrifying preview of the next year in GOP politics. (My apologies for the ad at the beginning.)

“I think that people treat her poorly, they treat her with no respect, and I think it’s because they’re envious of her. She’s got a good family, she’s got a good husband, she’s got awesome support, she’s got God on her side, and I think people are envious of that.” – Snowbilly pass-out party bottom and unwed teen mother Bristol …

For a knocked up baby-mama snowbilly, she sure has the pious Christian routine down pat. She’s also almost unrecognizable after that “medically necessary” face surgery.

Abstinence advocate and teen mother Bristol Palin was paid $262,000 for appearances made on behalf of a teen pregnancy prevention group. Bristol Palin was 18 when she was appointed as a teen ambassador for the New York-based foundation in 2009, months after giving birth to son, Tripp. She and the 2-year-old boy’s father, Levi Johnston, are no longer together. Palin …

A federal appeals court has ruled that a New Hampshire Patriot Act requiring the “voluntary” recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance does not force religion on students. The Freedom From Religion Foundation had argued that even a so-called voluntary recitation of the words “under God” violated the Constitution and made outcasts of students unwilling to participate. The panel of judges …

With her parents looking on from the audience, last night abstinence queen Bristol Palin ripped her partner’s shirt off during their rumba on Dancing With The Stars. Palin scored poorly last week, but don’t expect her to be voted off tonight as the teabaggers have launched a massive voting campaign on Twitter.

I finally had to break down and watch Dancing With The Stars to see how Bristol Palin did. Not terrible, but certainly not very good. Sadly, I’m predicting Margaret Cho as the first to go. TMZ claimed earlier today that Sarah Palin was to be in the audience and in the event of a security breach, the safety of the …

Sarah Palin’s whore daughter is suing her baby daddy for custody of their bastard son. And the Palins didn’t want anybody to know about it. A Dec. 23 order from Judge Kari C. Kristiansen denied Palin’s motion to close the proceedings and opened the case file to public access, while an order issued the same day by Presiding Judge Sharon …