Texas measure could cut HIV funds, boost abstinence education

[fredjr82]

AUSTIN, TX -- Texas would cut $3 million from programs to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and spend that money instead on abstinence education under a contentious Republican-sponsored measure tucked into the state budget Tuesday night.

The GOP-controlled House overwhelmingly approved the budget amendment, but not before a tense exchange with Democrats that veered into the unusually personal.

Republican state Rep. Stuart Spitzer, a doctor and the amendment's sponsor, at one point defended the change by telling the Texas House that he practiced abstinence until marriage. The first-term lawmaker said he hopes schoolchildren follow his example, saying, "What's good for me is good for a lot of people."


Democrat state Rep. Harold Dutton asked Spitzer if abstinence worked for him.


"It did," Spitzer replied. "I've had sex with one woman in my life and that's my wife."


"Is that the first woman you asked?" Dutton replied.

Shouts of "Decorum!" soon echoed on the House floor as the back-and-forth intensified. Efforts by Democrats to put the debate in writing for the record - usually a perfunctory request - failed.

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[swagsurfer02]

I just tuck it back between my legs
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[naturalmwa]

Why does it cost $3 million to teach people to do nothing?

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Serious question: How do you teach abstinence?

What techniques of abstinence do you teach?

Are there demonstrations, videos, practice sessions of engaging in abstinence?

Is a whole course devoted to it or is it just a unit within some other course? And if it's a unit within another course, which other course?

What are the exams like? What counts as a passing grade? What happens if you fail the exam?

Is abstinence something you have to be taught every year, like English or history?

How early in the educational process should kids be taught abstinence?

Should kids also be taught how to have sex, or does teaching both sides only apply to the evolution-creationism debate?

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Abstinence Education - Game of Thrones Version

Instruction for boys: don't stick them with the pointy end.

Instructions for girls: don't let them stick you with the pointy end.

 

[naturalmwa]

Originally posted by What Would Jesus Do?:
Serious question: How do you teach abstinence?

What techniques of abstinence do you teach?

Are there demonstrations, videos, practice sessions of engaging in abstinence?

Is a whole course devoted to it or is it just a unit within some other course? And if it's a unit within another course, which other course?

What are the exams like? What counts as a passing grade? What happens if you fail the exam?

Is abstinence something you have to be taught every year, like English or history?

How early in the educational process should kids be taught abstinence?

Should kids also be taught how to have sex, or does teaching both sides only apply to the evolution-creationism debate?

Your last one made me LOL. Yes, teach the controversy!

 

[fredjr82]

Originally posted by What Would Jesus Do?:


Should kids also be taught how to have sex, or does teaching both sides only apply to the evolution-creationism debate?

Texas in 2013 had the third-highest number of HIV diagnoses in the country, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. Texas also has one of the highest teen birth rates, and its public schools are not required to teach sex education.


Another Republican-sponsored amendment that passed Tuesday night would prevent schools from distributing sex education materials from abortion providers.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Originally posted by fredjr82:

Originally posted by What Would Jesus Do?:


Should kids also be taught how to have sex, or does teaching both sides only apply to the evolution-creationism debate?

Texas in 2013 had the third-highest number of HIV diagnoses in the country, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. Texas also has one of the highest teen birth rates, and its public schools are not required to teach sex education.


Another Republican-sponsored amendment that passed Tuesday night would prevent schools from distributing sex education materials from abortion providers.

And people wonder why I encourage Texas to secede. Just think how much smarter the rest of the country would become overnight (on average).

 

[BABiscuit]

Originally posted by What Would Jesus Do?:
Serious question: How do you teach abstinence?

Heavy workload in computers, band, and debate.

This post was edited on 4/1 9:44 AM by BABiscuit

 

[lucas80]

This reminds me of the Monty Python bit: Bloody Catholics filling up the bloody world with bloody children they can't feed…
I could have worn anything I wanted on my old John Thomas. A french tickler, a black mamba…

I imagine Mr. and Mrs. Spitzer have a quite an active sex life. Lights out, shades drawn, under the covers, and missionary only.

 

[theiacowtipper]

Originally posted by What Would Jesus Do?:
Serious question: How do you teach abstinence?

What techniques of abstinence do you teach?

Are there demonstrations, videos, practice sessions of engaging in abstinence?

Is a whole course devoted to it or is it just a unit within some other course? And if it's a unit within another course, which other course?

What are the exams like? What counts as a passing grade? What happens if you fail the exam?

Is abstinence something you have to be taught every year, like English or history?

How early in the educational process should kids be taught abstinence?

Should kids also be taught how to have sex, or does teaching both sides only apply to the evolution-creationism debate?

I'm not completely sure, but I think that funding goes to things like band and chess club.

 

[strummingram]

Teaching abstinence for sex is the hardest thing in the world to teach. Teaching abstinence against drug use is close, but you can try to show what a used-up drug addict looks like after the drug has ravaged them physically. The high feels great, but the toll it takes isn't worth it. Sex and orgasms? Same thing goes. Unless you show old syphilis patients, or photos of AIDS patients with advanced Kaposi's Sarcoma.

Stay out of Texas.

 

[naturalmwa]

Originally posted by theiacowtipper:

Originally posted by What Would Jesus Do?:
Serious question: How do you teach abstinence?

What techniques of abstinence do you teach?

Are there demonstrations, videos, practice sessions of engaging in abstinence?

Is a whole course devoted to it or is it just a unit within some other course? And if it's a unit within another course, which other course?

What are the exams like? What counts as a passing grade? What happens if you fail the exam?

Is abstinence something you have to be taught every year, like English or history?

How early in the educational process should kids be taught abstinence?

Should kids also be taught how to have sex, or does teaching both sides only apply to the evolution-creationism debate?

I'm not completely sure, but I think that funding goes to things like band and chess club.

 

[jscott78]

I would hate to lose Austin.