Texas measure cuts HIV funds, boost abstinence education
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[quote]AUSTIN, TX --
Texas would cut $3 million from programs to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and spend that money instead on abstinence education under a contentious Republican-sponsored measure tucked into the state budget Tuesday night.
The GOP-controlled House overwhelmingly approved the budget amendment, but not before a tense exchange with Democrats that veered into the unusually personal.
Republican state Rep. Stuart Spitzer, a doctor and the amendment's sponsor, at one point defended the change by telling the Texas House that he practiced abstinence until marriage. The first-term lawmaker said he hopes schoolchildren follow his example, saying, "What's good for me is good for a lot of people."[/quote]
Searched, didn't find it here. I sincerely hope this is just an april fool's prank, because if it's not it's ridiculously dumb on the Texas State Government's part. It flies in the face of all common sense and studies done on the topic.
Source: [url]http://abc13.com/politics/texas-bill-cuts-hiv-funds-boost-abstinence-education/600143/[/url]
Votes to change the name of the city of Austin, in Texas, to Sexloose?
fucking christ do they WANT people to get HIV and for more teen pregnancies to happen
[quote]"It did," Spitzer replied. "I've had sex with one woman in my life and that's my wife."
"Is that the first woman you asked?" Dutton replied. [/quote]
Daaaamn.
This is objectively and statistically stupid. Mind boggling how they're rejecting reality for... What? What do they think they're gaining?
How about teaching them how to do it properly [i](a proper in-depth education mind you)[/i] instead of just scooting it under the rug and saying " don't fuck ever unless you're married ". Also doesn't help that they seem like they're treating HIV like a problem that will just go away if they ignore it long enough.
[quote]The first-term lawmaker said he hopes schoolchildren follow his example, saying, "What's good for me is good for a lot of people."[/quote]
What the fuck kind of mentality is that?
[QUOTE=Seth2492;47438102]What the fuck kind of mentality is that?[/QUOTE]
[I]republicans[/I]
Don't worry guys, they're only doing this because today is April Fools day. Right guys... right?
seems a bit cruel for an april fools joke
Abstinence is great and all if you can swing it but [b]abstinence only education[/b] is a religiously-backed farce perpetuated by better-than-thou republicans. It doesn't work, it never worked, and it never will work. It's [b]exclusively[/b] to confuse and harm teenagers because they're jealous that their cocks haven't worked since the Clinton administration.
They're ones to talk about not fucking, they fuck us basically every day.
I would honestly wait until the day after today to see if this is actually a thing.
"Man sells guns, buys water pistols in case of potential home invaders"
[QUOTE=Levithan;47437857]fucking christ do they WANT people to get HIV and for more teen pregnancies to happen[/QUOTE]
Christian Conservatives always seem to want sex to come with a punishment, so, yes?
I did an abstinence education course back in high school. It was an absolute joke.
There's so much stuff that I wish I had been able to learn about sexuality when I was in grade school, even though I would have been super embarrassed by it.
[QUOTE=green bandit;47440536]I did an abstinence education course back in high school. It was an absolute joke.[/QUOTE]
What do they actually teach you? Don't have sex before you're married or you'll be possessed by the devil?
conserveratives are a bunch of extra virgin olive oil
I don't understand conservatives. Why does it bother them so much that other people are having sex?
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;47443087]I don't understand conservatives. Why does it bother them so much that other people are having sex?[/QUOTE]
Jealousy.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;47443087]I don't understand conservatives. Why does it bother them so much that other people are having sex?[/QUOTE]
The fact that nobody sane would fuck them. :v:
[QUOTE=Samiam22;47440671]What do they actually teach you? Don't have sex before you're married or you'll be possessed by the devil?[/QUOTE]
They showed us some pictures of what STD's do to the body, and documentaries of people who had sex and caught those diseases. I guess they were going for the shock route to scare of kids from having sex. But it was nothing that most kids in my class hadn't seen from browsing the internet.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;47440482]Christian Conservatives always seem to want sex to come with a punishment, so, yes?[/QUOTE]
That's why I keep a whip in the bedroom.
The only thing I remember from sex-ed is some drama about being gay where at emotional climax of the movie, one of the characters out of nowhere shouts, "REMEMBER THAT TIME AT CAMP WHEN WE TOOK OF OUR CLOTHES AND EXPERIMENTED!?"
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;47443087]I don't understand conservatives. Why does it bother them so much that other people are having sex?[/QUOTE]
Control, it's all about control. These old conservatives were teenagers once, and they were horny as fuck too. They never talk about that.
You can't control people by empowering them though. The more you can convince people that they must listen to you and do things your way, the more control you have. If you say "Here's sex education and here's family planning services, the rest is up to you" then you have forfeited control and they can't stand that. They don't want laws against discrimination, but they are fine with controlling people's sex lives, it's an interesting if surreal way to live.
[QUOTE=01271;47444466]That's why I keep a whip in the bedroom.[/QUOTE]
Unless the whip diverts funding from family planning organizations to oil companies it isn't going far enough.
[QUOTE=Seth2492;47438102]What the fuck kind of mentality is that?[/QUOTE]
"Smoking crack is good for me. So, a lot of people should do it too."
[editline]2nd April 2015[/editline]
I can stop any time I want
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;47443087]I don't understand conservatives. Why does it bother them so much that other people are having sex?[/QUOTE]
it's a spiritual thing.
some of them think that the principles of their religious doctrine dictate sexual purity (i.e. "saving yourself for marriage") as a must; sexual desire, by their interpretation of their religion, is a temptation offered by corrupting influences, and accepting one temptation could lead to accepting another.
the more basic moral message is "the prospect of boning someone can make you make bad decisions", which is a simple truth, but it comes down to interpretation, and the value of that interpretation in particular is lost on those who boil down biblical teachings into "god thinks x thing is bad and he will punish you for it, do not do x thing"
it's not really scientific in its understanding of human sexuality, nor its insight at all helpful in terms of actually reducing the amount of unwanted pregnancies and STDs, but it comes from a place of good intentions.
aand it's also hard to expect anything else when a belief system such as that is impressed into someone from a young age.
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