Define ‘gateway sexual activity’
Look, Virginia, there are states more prudish than ours.
Today, I will add Tennessee public school teacher to the list of Jobs I’m Glad I Do Not Have.
Tennessee legislators have sent a bill to the governor, who is expected to sign it, that would allow parents to bring charges against teachers who fail to intervene and stop their teens from having “gateway sexual activity.”
And what might that be? The bill’s sponsor told the Knoxville News Sentinel that hand holding is probably innocent enough. Really? That’s skin to skin contact. Who among us has not felt a tingle when our mate touches our hand?
Obviously, the Tennessee legislators understand the danger in touching. There will be no over-the-clothes contact of any sort allowed.
From the little I have read of this bill, and I really don’t want to read much more about it, I have gathered that Tennessee requires abstinence-only sex-ed yet, too many girls are still getting pregnant. So instead of teaching them how to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies and diseases — also known as how to stay healthy — the “adults” decided to prohibit teens from any and all “gateway sexual activity” and prosecute anyone who fails to prevent them from kissing and hugging.
The high school sex police are on the patrol. It is not yet known whether they’ll tail them to college.
May 1, 2012 - 10:48 AM
Out of curiosity, has the world always been this insane or has it gotten worse?
I thought the Republican party was supposed to be the party of de-regulation. If I ever ran for public office, I’d do it on a platform of de-regulation and try to get rid of this type of stupidity.
I think this is one more example of regressives purposely trying to destroy American public education.
Other ways they do this is by demonizing teachers and underfunding them. You can hear it in their language when they call them ‘government schools’, as if there were anything wrong with government schools. Ignorance Only Sex Education classes. Judging teachers based on student performance so they end up teaching to the test instead of a real education. Special exceptions made for private schools, most often religious, so the teachers don’t have to be certified, can be fired for violating a religious rule, where they don’t have to teach to the test, etc. And my personal favorite is by opening them up to private profit exploitation.
You can read about some of this in a very good book called THE GOOD NEWS CLUB.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-News-Club-Christian/dp/1586488430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335892397&sr=8-1
You know what it’s going to have to come down to don’t you? Secularists, those who are part of the reality based community, are going to have to start their own private schools simply to give students an option to being exploited by the for profit people or by the religious nuts who want you to think the earth is only 6,000 years old.
If we ban it, If we shame them, if we don’t talk about it, then those dratted kids will not copulate. Nope… not in my town. Fornicators!
“You gotta keep ‘em separated!”
1 – “I thought the Republican party was supposed to be the party of de-regulation…”
You are beginning to understand. The GOP is more about de-regulation than the CPUSA/Dem Party is, it’s just a matter of emphasis. No, the CPUSA/Dem Party may not intrude in this particular area, but they interfere in so many others. And since no laws are repealed in Big Government, in the end, we have bigger, more intrusive leviathan that permeates all of society.
@3 89Hoo, so what you’re saying is the Republican are a bunch of hypocrites?
4 – well, sort of, Scott. What I am saying is that they are liars and hypocrites (you left off the first part).
To give the CPUSA/Dem Party its due, they at least don’t even give lip service to limited government or to wanting to rein in leviathan; they openly promote their socialist and statist agenda. The GOP pretends one thing, but lies. In the end, as I said, we wind up with a government that interferes in damned near every facet of American life.
The Dems are liberals pretending to be moderates. The Republicans are liberals posing as conservatives pretending to be moderates. Peel back enough layers, and all you have is liberals (modern liberals, not the classical variety).
This sounds very talibanesque.
Not to mention another opportunity for parents to abdicate responsibility for their own children. If my teenage son and his girlfriend get pregnant, they bear full responsibility, and I and the other parents bear some responsibility, but it would be absurd to hold my son’s teacher even slightly responsible. Good grief.
Go for it, back in my day we called those repressed children whose natural curiosity and interactions had been disallowed, “the Preacher’s kid” and it was not a good thing then either. Some people will do anything to keep from honestly talking with their children…and it shows. Some people mold and pressure their children into their image or into their path…and it shows. Some people abuse and misinform their children…and it shows. Some people work hard at engaging, informing and supporting their children…and it shows.