Apr 19th 2010 By Gladstone

Anderson Cooper Probes Forbidden Teen Sex (Education) -- Hate by Numbers

Last week, a Wisconsin district attorney named Scott Southworth wrote a letter to teachers in his district informing them that they could be criminally prosecuted for teaching sex education curricula that included birth-control information. Apparently, the D.A. favors c**k-blocking, as long as it doesn't include a condom.

Gladstone took issue with a CNN segment in which Anderson Cooper and Southworth explore the details of forbidden teen sex. It's the latest installment of Hate by Numbers ...

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Thursday 22 April

By cams

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yea that's a great idea put people in jail that's dares to teach kids how not to get and spread stds or protect against teen pregnancy we've have some real smart people in are government

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Sunday 02 May

By BTDT

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Risky behaviors should not only be legal, they should be encouraged.
Usurping the laws of natural selection hasn't served mankind well.

Tuesday 27 April

By Jaime

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HELLO? Doesn't it MATTER AT ALL that there have been NUMEROUS studies PROVING that abstinence training does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to prevent teens from having sex. IT DOESNT WORK. Yet, teachers are forced to teach it and not allowed to teach about birth control? The method that DOES WORK? Its been shown, time and time again, that educating teens on birth control lowers pregnancy rates and the spread of disease. Its also been shown that abstinance training DOES NOT prevent ANYONE from having sex. So lets prosecute TEACHERS for educating children on birth control, when that is the only thing that has a chance of protecting them. And in that video interview, did this guy actually say he's "protecting the teachers in case a parent files a complaint against them for ENCOURAGING students to have sex"?! Now teaching about birth control is ENCOURAGING students to have sex? Am I loosing my f*&%ing mind?! Why are these people in a position of power to make these kinds of decisions? Why is it ok to ignore common sense and all available information on the subject and create these rediculous laws based on your own personal belief?

Tuesday 27 April

By DODA

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Mr Southworths parents should be jailed for having sex and producing such a retard.

Wednesday 28 April

By elin

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This guy is such a putz. Teens need real information. Just because their religious belief encourages abstinence doesn't mean teens shouldn't learn about sex. Sex education classes are important to make sure teens know how to protect themselves. This isn't the '50s any more!

Wednesday 28 April

By Mary

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Abstinence does work. It is foolproof. Generations of civilization have proven this. Until the Sexual Revolution of the 1960's, it was lewd and indecent to speak to minors about sex, if you were not their parent. Why give teachers, some of whom have lusted for and molested students, permission to violate one of the most sacred areas of a child, their sexual psyche? Oh wait, most of you have been perverted by the Sexy Sixties, and you can't conceive of anything any better.

Wednesday 28 April

By Jacob

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Umm, no, it doesn't work. Besides the numerous studies that show that Abstinence Only Education delays sexual activity by an average of 6 months and dramatically increases the likelihood of STIs and Pregnancy when compared to a more comprehensive education.

Also, historically, it should be called the Sexual Counterrevolution, because it was a response to the decency ideals that came out of the 1910s and 20s about sex being dirty. For centuries, sex was an early part of a child's life. Think about it. How long can you work on a farm and not witness animals mating (it's under a year)? You think that didn't get talked about outside of the immediate family? How do you think frontier families with 8 year old children made new babies in a one room cabin?

Sex being lewd and indecent is an invention made possible by modern convenience. People who lived 150 years ago had better things to worry about and would have welcomed anything that made life easier, through lack of infections or unwanted pregnancies. So get your stupid traditionalist argument out of here.

Wednesday 28 April

By godfree

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Yes, in the bad old days they used to ship pregnant girls out of town to homes for unwed mothers or even lock them up as incorrigible in state prisons for children. You really want to go back to that?

Monday 10 May

By mike

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Are you from Alabama, Mary? Bible-belt states that only preach abstinence have much higher rates of teenage pregnancy.

Do you think that rock music is the devil too?

Friday 30 April

By Amanda

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Abstinence itsself if foolproof (clearly, it would have to be if you're using it, Mary). Abstinence-only sex ed is not. And even if kids are preached to about waiting until they're married to have sex, shouldn't they still know about how their reproductive organs work for future reference?

Friday 30 April

By eatshit

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And right wing psychosis hits an all new low. What scares me even more is that a group of people voted this puritanical lunatic into office. I pray for our nation.

Saturday 01 May

By David S.

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Mr. Southworth is a douche -- my guess is he is a closeted gay guy. Come out, come out, Mr. Southworth. It is 2010, not 1910. On second thought, stay in the closet -- even the gay community would reject this reject.

Wednesday 05 May

By Scanque

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LOL Doda I agree! If any punishment should be going on it should be this idiots parents for not using protections...sounds like they needed those classes. No wonder he's so against them!

Saturday 08 May

By nic

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im only 19 havent been there seen it all or lived life. im still living. but yeah teaching about it is great let kids know the risks they face in engaging in such actions but to make it illigal is actualy gonna encourage them in haveing it its part of the thrill teach them and let them learn from their mistake liek i said im 29 but i dont have the clap and i dont have any kids i gotta pay child support i learned the risks and i learned how to lessen the chances of such ITS CALLED A CONDEM!! dont be a fool wrap ur tool!