A quick hit on how sometimes the simplest stupidity is in your local paper. Case in point: A local Tennessee reporter is mad that a nonprofit Christian group talked to a Tennessee school about sex and being responsible when clearly, the preferred talk is “sex it up and get Gosnell’d later.” I digress.
Teens don’t need opinions about sexual health issues, a presenter told Hillsboro High freshmen and sophomores last week.
They need facts.
Having sex with eight partners would be the equivalent of drinking a whole classroom’s spit, so the presentation goes. There’s a new sexually transmitted disease out there that will become the new AIDS. All medical textbooks say life begins at conception.
For an hour, Joi Wasill, the founder of nonprofit Decisions, Choices and Options, and Sumner County School Board member Beth Cox provided a captive audience their take on STDs, abortion and adoption. It wasn’t completely accurate, a Vanderbilt University doctor said.
Wait a second. The author, a woman by the name of Heidi Hall, may be forgiven for not seeing the headlines because she has never set up a feed reader or mobile alerts for news, but that doesn’t excuse the inability to work an Internet browser. I say this because just the other day this story was all over the place:
Heaven forbid! Could these Christian speakers perhaps be referencing this story, written six ways to Sunday, which “papered” most news sites? I’ve heard the spit analogy before when I was in high school. It was a sex ed’s cutesy way of trying to make relatable a totally uncomfortable subject to talk about with a classroom of kids. The biggest bit of irony, though, is when Hall herself starts her serious, finger-wagging, kids need facts-style lecture and then spectacularly belly flops into hypocrisy by jabbing at the Christian speakers’s remark about life at conception.
Apparently, some of us, like Hall, began life in some other magical way and thus are entitled to feel bigoted and ageist towards those in utero.
I skimmed the rest of the article and went to look at LOLcats because the writing was trite and partisan. Basically, Hall was angry because the group wasn’t Planned Parenthood or some other Gosnell industry doc showing girls how to flush babies down the toilet. Hall interestingly took a jab at the Christian group’s apparent non-profit status and believes that keeping one’s money is the exact same, mathematically, as taxpayers cutting a group an actual check. If she were truly angry about taxpayer subsidization, she would have jabbed Planned Parenthood, which is truly taxpayer funded in multiple ways, in addition to accepting Medicaid patients. Like I said, trite.
