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KamaAina

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Fri Apr 15, 2016, 12:42 PM Apr 2016

Texas House Votes To Divert HIV Prevention Funds To Pay For Abstinence Only Education

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/uncucumbered/texas_house_votes_to_divert_hiv_prevention_to_pay_for_abstinence_only_education

Texas State Rep. Stuart Spitzer, (that's him in the photo above, posing with Ted Cruz, who he calls "my favorite senator,&quot made no secret of his intentions when he introduced a budget amendment that would take millions targeted for HIV and STD screening and give it to abstinence only (non)-education programs. He said it very plainly:
&quot My) goal is for everybody to be abstinent until they’re married."

Democratic State Rep. Sylvester Turner, who opposed Rep. Spitzer's plan shot back:
"My goal is for everybody to be HIV/AIDS free."

The floor debate was contentious and at times very personal. At one point, Democrat Harold Dutton asked Rep. Spitzer if he had any experience with abstinence.
"I’ve had sex with one woman, and that’s my wife," said Spitzer, who volunteered that he was a virgin when he married - at age 29.

Rep. Dutton then asked Rep. Spitzer if that had been completely his own choice, sending the Texas House chamber into an uproar.


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Texas House Votes To Divert HIV Prevention Funds To Pay For Abstinence Only Education (Original Post) KamaAina Apr 2016 OP
What we need is more of this kind of thiniking in the White House, which is what we will have when Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #1
They're talking about abstinence not S&M nt Umbral18 Apr 2016 #4
Rec for Rep. Dutton... awoke_in_2003 Apr 2016 #2
Funny - but damn. Stupid people. Solly Mack Apr 2016 #3

Jackie Wilson Said

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1. What we need is more of this kind of thiniking in the White House, which is what we will have when
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 12:46 PM
Apr 2016

people dont show up to vote in November.




again, for those so impaired

this is something that starts with an "s" and ends with an "m"

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