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Obama Declares Support For Gay Marriage

There you go I did do some Googling for you. Idiots who want links to opinion need help so I started for you. Abstinence only education does not and will not do the job.

This is what a said just a few posts earlier.

"In fact abstinence is just one of the options, and the only definite way, to avoid STD. And in fact abstinence is being practiced by some young people".

So nowhere did i say that "Abstinence only education does not and will not do the job".

Reading comprehension has indeed become a serious problem in American public schools. They should all be privatized.
 
This is a long thread so I haven't read all the posts. Has anyone pointed out that Obama said he personally thought gay people should marry but also that this should be an issue for the states?
 
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This is a long thread so I haven't read all the posts. Has anyone pointed out that Obama said he personally thought gay people should marry but also that this should be an issue for the states?
Yes and at great lengths. Which is why we are all waiting with baited breath for the two DOMA cases to get to the SCOTUS who will decide the constitutionality of the states anti-SSM laws sometime this year.
 
And in fact abstinence is being practiced by some young people.

Did you know that abstinence is practiced by every one of us? Up and until we have sex?

Abstenence is fine. Not knowing about sex and sex ed is not fine. Any reliable stats out there showing that teaching abstenence only actually decreases the % of teens actually having sex and not just denying that they are?
 
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Here are the top ten states in STD's

Rank Primary and secondary syphilis Chlamydia Gonorrhea
1 Louisiana (16.8) Mississippi (802.7) Mississippi (246.4)
2 Georgia (9.8) Alaska (752.7) Louisiana (204.0)
3 Arkansas (9.6) Louisiana (626.4) South Carolina (185.7)
4 Alabama (8.9) South Carolina (595.0) Alabama (160.8)
5 Mississippi (8.1) Alabama (556.2) Arkansas (156.2)
6 Texas (6.8) Delaware (540.4) Illinois (154.7)
7 Tennessee (6.5) Arkansas (502.7) North Carolina (150.4)
8 North Carolina (6.3) New Mexico (478.4) Michigan (147.0)
9 New York (6.1) Tennessee (478.1) Alaska (144.3)
10 Illinois (5.8) New York (472.4) Georgia (141.3)





CDC finds stark regional disparities in teen-pregnancy rates - The Hill's Healthwatch

You will notice the states that are red dominate the statistics. When you try and teach abstinence only it seems to be a problem. It does not work because people do not practice this method and need to be taught sex education.


I grew up in Baptist country.... Abstinence, while it should be encouraged, doesn't work...those little wholesome girls weren't all that wholesome....and interestingly enough, I knew far more Bisexual women down there than I do up here in my "godless liberal "state.

Anyway, if parents prefer abstinence be taught, then they can teach that to their kids....perhaps Sex ED should be an elective course.
 
Hes using it as a wedge issue against Romney. Up until now, Romney could say he has the same position as the President. Now he can no longer claim that unless he goes the same route. I am guessing he will not come out for gay marriage and will go back to defending DOMA, I dont know for sure with Romney, its hard telling.

I guess this puts Obama on the opposite side of Bill Clinton and Mitt Romney.
 
Abstenence is fine. Not knowing about sex and sex ed is not fine. Any reliable stats out there showing that teaching abstenence only actually decreases the % of teens actually having sex and not just denying that they are?

Some students are practicing abstinence, some aren't. Some will have STD and some won't, some teenage girls will become pregnant and some won't, some will have abortions, some won't.

We can ask ourselves whether teenage pregnancies and STD have increased since the 1950's, for example, or, despite all the information we have at hand, increased. I think the answer is obvious.

It seems clear then that sex education is not enough, that there has to be more. Rather then demonize those who want to arrive at the same conclusion, ie less STD, unwanted pregnancies and abortions, we should have an open and honest debate on how to get to that point.
 
Some students are practicing abstinence, some aren't. Some will have STD and some won't, some teenage girls will become pregnant and some won't, some will have abortions, some won't.

We can ask ourselves whether teenage pregnancies and STD have increased since the 1950's, for example, or, despite all the information we have at hand, increased. I think the answer is obvious.

It seems clear then that sex education is not enough, that there has to be more. Rather then demonize those who want to arrive at the same conclusion, ie less STD, unwanted pregnancies and abortions, we should have an open and honest debate on how to get to that point.

Actually, teen pregnancy rates have dropped below that of the 1950s. There were fewer teenage mothers in 2010 than there have been in any year since 1946.

U.S. teen pregnancy rates at an all-time low across all ethnicities - HealthPop - CBS News

The reduction is contributed to an increase in birth control use, in particular two forms of birth control.
 
North Carolina poll: More blacks for gay marriage

If you bother to click thru you will read that a majority of black North Carolinians are still opposed to gay marriage but the number supporting it has jumped in the past week.



That is an unbalanced headline (but true) while a balanced article follows, one that lays out the facts. A problem often seen as news outlets try to grab eyes. Don't think there is much to be done about it but I do wonder how such headlines can affect a person's perception of bias in the media.
 
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