OpEd: Abstinence should definitely be encouraged in the WI Legislature

[sybylla]

From the Racine Journal Times editorial
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/12/01/opinion/iq_3785517.txt
Abstinence and the Wisconsin Legislature

Abstinence should definitely be encouraged in the Wisconsin Legislature. All of us would be better off if state politicians abstained from passing laws about things they know nothing about.

Republican legislators are about to pass a law requiring schools in the state to teach teenagers that sexual abstinence until marriage is the "preferred" behavior in Wisconsin.

Legislators actually believe they have a right to declare certain sexual activities - or, in this case, no sexual activity - the official behavior of our state much the same way they designate various species of wildlife the official state bird or the official state rodent.

At the same time politicians are telling everyone in our state not to have sexual relations unless they are married, they also are in the process of amending our Constitution to tell other people in our state they can never get married.

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This is a real kick-ass editorial. But I'm confused. Isn't this a rather republican corner of the state?

[shoelace414]

1. Just ask people who preach this

would you have remained abstinent if your school would have preached it to you more?

If the answer is anything but no, they are lying.

[eyesroll]

2. Racine's nominally blue, if I remember correctly.

(I lived there for a bit; the Journal Times's former publisher is a confirmed Democrat, BTW.)

[sybylla]

3. Thanks for the clarification

I guess I get its political tendencies confused with Waukesha in my mind.

[ewagner]

4. There's a great

state-wide campaign theme buried in there....

Repubs should practice absinence....stay out of our bedrooms
...stay out of our churches, etc., etc.,

[RevCheesehead]

5. Good idea: remind them of Terri Schiavo, too!

"Do we really need government trying to make our personal choices for us? What part of freedom don't they understand?"

[gizmo1979]

6. This is so out of control

They want to stick their fat noses in everything they have no business in.They want to pass an amendment to ban gay marriage.I don't think you should ever make amendments that take rights away.That should be a rule.When it comes to guns though they think people should mind their own business.I have solutions for both situations,gay marriage let it up to individual churchs,on the concealed weapon's thing,forget concealed weapons they feel unsafe they can carry guns unconcealed,on the outside in a holster like the old west,that way we know who the wacko's are.