One Texas public school district's sex ed handout is entitled "Things to Look for in a Mate:"
I. How they relate to God
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Public school, eh?
Lawsuit!
This would be OK for a church youth group to hand out, but it is all kinds of illegal in a PUBLIC school.
BTW, Rick, abstinence works OK as a method of birth control, but Texas's teen pregnancy rates indicate that abstinence-only education does not result in abstinence , only in unprotected sex.
I, A, B?! Wow, someone failed counting. I thought this was a typo at first until I checked the referred article.
Try some consistency next time when you enumerate: 1, 2, 3; A, B, C; I, II, III; etc..
Blatant endorsement of Christianity by a public school district? Lawsuit ti-- Wait, does that say "I, A, B"?
A. Is Jesus their first love?
You're encouraging them to cheat? For shame!
EDIT: Oh, and I loved this part of the article:The results? Teen pregnancy in Texas went up -- higher than before "abstinence only," and more than 50 percent higher than the national average. Even more troubling was that repeat teen pregnancy went up -- to the point that it, too, led the nation
A subtle assertion that only the religious should be permitted to breed and a not so subtle omission of anything related to sex, being an 'abstinence only' program. (Which spiked the number of teenage pregnancies. It's the highest in America. Nice going morons.)
Stunts like this are the main reason the state of Texas makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to avoid making unfair assumptions that everyone and everything within it's borders will eventually succumb to insanity. Is there something in the water?
"I, A, B?! Wow, someone failed counting. I thought this was a typo at first until I checked the referred article.
Try some consistency next time when you enumerate: 1, 2, 3; A, B, C; I, II, III; etc.. "
It's a formatting error in the post. The A and B should be spaced to the right. They're subheadings under the main heading "How they relate to God".
Which doesn't make the CONTENT any better, of course, but it's pretty standard bullet-point format.
I give up. New plan - we cede Texas to the fundies. It's big enough for all of them. I'll even throw in Oklahoma if they agree to build their immigrant-proof fence on the northern border. Then the rest of us can try to have a f#@&ing civilization.
The cost of relocating the sane residents will be well worth it and can be dramatically re-enacted in the forthcoming "Last Chopper out of Austin."
Is this in a public school?! Not a religious school?! Wow. Has Texas become a theocracy overnight?
I just wish Texas would fucking secede already and change its name to "Jesusland."
And this particular quote isn't nearly as a blatant violation of the separation of church & state as this other one from the article:
Another public school district uses this:
Question: "What does the Bible say about sex before marriage/premarital sex?"
Answer: Along with all other kinds of sexual immorality, sex before marriage/premarital sex is repeatedly condemned in Scripture (Acts 15:20; Romans 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13,18; 7:2; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7).
I actually think those criteria are very helpful:
if the perspective mate answers "yes" to any of them, you can dump him/her immediately or at least be warned that you're in for a rough ride.
Perhaps a few related questions could be added, like about extreme jealousy, mental illness, alcoholism, violence, country music, and other dysfunctions that can kill any meaningful relationship.
Per A, I really go for a guy with nice olive skin and a beard. Yummm.
Nope, nothing at all gay about having a man as your first love.* (Rolls eyes)
* Although the implied necrophelia is a bit icky.
I. How they relate to God
Perhaps republicans should apply this test to their candidates for public office (especially that last one).
Actually, in fairness, those are things I looked for when I chose my mate.
PUBLIC!?!? Get your FUCKING cult AWAY from my kid cousins, motherfuckers! You should go to JAIL for breaking the first amendment! Someone else sue them! I have no money!
Hello? ACLU?
PLEASE?!?
I think the rest of the list goes something like this:
C. Oral and anal don't count (see also "Saddlebacking")
@ Fpqxz --
C. Oral and anal don't count (see also "Saddlebacking")
...except when it's two men or two women doing it. Then it counts as sex.
No, I don't understand it either. But then, I don't really know why heterosexuals insisted on redefining what counts as gay sex in the first place.
Things I looked for in a Mate:
I haven't the foggiest if he's religious or not. He's not devout, that's for sure, as we have only been to church for baptisms, weddings and funerals.
Did I mention that we've been together for almost 24 years, so it seems to be working.
Is Jesus their first love?
Ladies, if Jesus is your man's first love, then he's gay.
Ok, here's how it's supposed to go:
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Those are sub-headings. Still, a public school??
I. How they relate to God
I think the sadest thing is when Rick Perry was shown the statistics showing how his abstinance only program increased teenage pregnancy, and then how his religious fear program made his state have the highest rate in the country his only answer was:
"It works, Maybe it's the way it's being taught, or the way it's being applied out there, but the fact of the matter is it is the best form of -- uh -- to teach our children."
I know this isn't really the takeaway here, but this school district desperately needs some copyeditors. I mean, sentence fragments are, like, fifth grade stuff.
I bet they're really embarrassed that this list got out.
...They left out the "Brood" and misspelled "Mare", after all.
"Stunts like this are the main reason the state of Texas makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to avoid making unfair assumptions that everyone and everything within it's borders will eventually succumb to insanity. Is there something in the water?"
I'm trying to think of good things from Texas on the spot, and coming up only with Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki and Amy Acker. I'm sure there are a lot of decent and intelligent people in Texas, but there's so much fucked up about that state, I feel sorry for them.
"Is this in a public school?! Not a religious school?! Wow. Has Texas become a theocracy overnight? "
Well, no, but there are plenty of areas, and in other states, where the people in charge of education or governance are fundy-leaning and thus wouldn't enforce the law against this until someone raises a stink, and perhaps not even then.
Fun fact: These are the same people that will bitch and moan about:
about how liberals are destroying our country by being tolerant
For the record, I have relatives in Fort Worth. They're liberal intellectuals. Not ALL Texans are like this.
Just setting the record straight.
This is a public school? I call BULLSHIT on the claims of "Christian" persecution?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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