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Gays Can't Do Abstinence?

Posted by Jessica Valenti at 8:07 AM on January 4, 2007.


Jessica Valenti: Florida school refuses Gay-straight alliance for some very queer reasons...
abstinence
(unless you're a homo)

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It's already pretty well established that abstinence-only education discriminates against gay and lesbian students, but this takes the cake.

A Florida high school has refused to allow a student to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance as an after-school club. After being called out on their bullshit reason that the school doesn't allow any clubs (it does), Okeechobee High School is now claiming that there can't be a queer club because the school has an abstinence-only policy.

Eh? Apparently only hetero teens can abstain.

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the school on the student's behalf.

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Jessica Valenti is the executive editor of Feministing.


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Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Jan 4, 2007 9:54 AM   
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Anyone else think that maybe.. just maybe... the school shouldn't be taking ANY role outside of an educational one in the sex-lives of students????

Its just the same old insanity... we want our kids not to have sex... so we arrange that those who do anyway (the VAST majority of them) will have no education on safety or anything else. And then we will sit back and wonder why our kids are so utterly and completely fucked up... and why we adults are as well... and why so many marriages end in divorce. It couldn't have ANYTHING to do with our messed up blatantly ignorant views on sex and relationships.

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There is no reason why teenagers should abstain
Posted by: kelt65 on Jan 4, 2007 11:15 AM   
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especially not gay ones.

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Posted by: pjpatten on Jan 4, 2007 10:39 PM   
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Ah, yes, and to think that some of those parents, those adults, are perhaps, if I may choke on the words, Board Members, or is it Bored Members? If not abstinance (how many of those same adults practiced that as children?), then what other tedious and mundane subject can they tittle their time away on? Least of all, let us not forget that it is the mundane that are heros in their own minds.

I have always loved sexually repressive regimes, it not only shows us how truely wothless we view our own sexuality and attractiveness, but it also tells our children what we REALLY think of thier ability to learn from our mistakes, and to NEVER trust "feelings". We have outlawed punishing our children, we have made it taboo to give them a peck or a hug, we have done almost everything possile to permit no contact with our children. Now, we wish to make sure they do not have contact with one another, or perhaps, even with themselves. All in the name of better education. Somehow, I missed the era where "education" subplanted sensory deprivation. We have managed to turn an act as natural as eating, into a social, religious taboo. As if we were not made for such things. If this is wrong, then God, evolution, or whatever your viewpoint on your existance is, certainly put the right equipment on the wrong people. Find somewhere else to take out your sexual frustrations and inadequicies, not on children.

There is nothing wrong with being an 18 year old virgin, it is not a shame if that is a child's desire. But there will always be something wrong with 40 and 50 year old pricks, who should be ashamed, but for the most part, just flaunt their power in a shame they are arrogant and ignorant enough not to see.

Stick to the real education of the children. But lets keep our nose and excuses in our own bedrooms, along with all our other personal sexual frustrations.

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