"Condoms don't belong in schools, and neither does Al Gore!"

[QueenAdrock]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html

Apparently the world is 14,000 years old too. Did you guys hear? It's been proven in the latest issue of the Journal of Complete Idiocy.

:rolleyes:

[abcdefz]

This person needs to re-read the Bible.

For what it's worth, even though I believe in the Creation, I don't think it should be taught in schools. It's a faith thing -- very deliberately not science. Prevailing scientific theories should be taught, and creation-based theories could be taught in religious classes.

I do have a problem with condoms in schools, same as I would with a needle exchange. You're sanctioning something that -- while not illegal, the social norm would say isn't supposed to be happening.

Vice President Gore's documentary is a font of good information. No reason not to show that in the proper setting, which would include schools. The church I last went to even had a screening. The studio sent them a DVD before it was released.

[kaiser soze]

I heard book burnings cause global warming

These people love denial and the control of information that could help save this world.

freakin' rapturists

[Schmeltz]

Man, I don't see how you could possibly compare free condoms with free needles. A good friend of mine spent his summer and Christmas vacations working at a safe injection site in Vancouver and his take on things is way, way different from yours. It's not about sanctioning something that society is supposed to frown upon and shut away; it's about confronting difficult situations head-on and dealing with them up front. Teenagers having sex before they're ready to deal with potential consequences is a problem - but would you rather they learned this by getting STDs and dealing with unwanted pregnancies, or would you rather put up whatever immediate barrier to these consequences can be provided?

Likewise, addicts ruining their lives with junk and crank is a problem. But would you rather this was simply ignored and left to run rampant in society, or would you rather provide whatever solution can be made available at the most basic level - by ensuring that at least disease won't be spread by dirty needles, and at least overdoses won't leave corpses on the streets, and at least addicts have somewhere they can go for help?

OK, so you make up some artificial social norm that delineates some perfect ideal of human behaviour to which we should either aspire or die trying. I suppose every society has done that, in some way, so I wouldn't expect anything else. But I think you're kidding yourself if you think the best way of dealing with the huge numbers of people who fail to live up to this ideal is to just ignore them and not provide them with any safety net. That's going to make things worse, not better.

[fucktopgirl]

Indeed, condom is a good thing in school, really nothing wrong with that!
It will not encourage kiddo to have more sex but the ones who do it will be able to protect themselves. A lots of teenagers are too shy to buy protection so...

People who are againts that kind of help are somewhat close minded, it is not like they put riffle at the disposition of kids....

[SobaViolence]

the bible is a horribly patriarchical, archaic and oppressive document, with blarring and numerous contradictions, vagueries and ambiguities.

if you read the old testament (especially leviticus) you will see how women are oppressed and, worst, treated like child-bearing property. that is, if you are reading critically...

and the new testament was writen 60-90 yrs after the death of jesus while the 4 gospels were chosen by a comittee out of a possible 80 or so competing gospels...and this was done three or four hundred years after the death of jesus.

AND the book itself is 2000 years old. i mean, c'mon, it can't even be considered as relevant when it has been translated from ancient hebrew and aramaic(dead language) to ancient greek to latin to english and has been completely taken out of its original cultural context and placed in a vacuum.

jesus forgive my run-on sentences and rhetorical questions.

[Otis Driftwood]

Treating child-bearing properties like women, those bastards... :mad:

[mikizee]

the bible is a horribly patriarchical, archaic and oppressive document, with blarring and numerous contradictions, vagueries and ambiguities.

if you read the old testament (especially leviticus) you will see how women are oppressed and, worst, treated like child-bearing property. that is, if you are reading critically...

and the new testament was writen 60-90 yrs after the death of jesus while the 4 gospels were chosen by a comittee out of a possible 80 or so competing gospels...and this was done three or four hundred years after the death of jesus.

AND the book itself is 2000 years old. i mean, c'mon, it can't even be considered as relevant when it has been translated from ancient hebrew and aramaic(dead language) to ancient greek to latin to english and has been completely taken out of its original cultural context and placed in a vacuum.

jesus forgive my run-on sentences and rhetorical questions.


I concur.

[STANKY808]

Oh man, gotta love the Scots...

Every school in Scotland will soon own two copies each of Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth on DVD. Teachers will not be forced to show the film, but the Scottish government expressed optimism that all students will have the opportunity to view it.

The decision came just days after a Washington State school board issued a moratorium on the movie after complaints from parents like Frosty E. Hardison, who "believes the Bible predicted global warming."

(Not to mention it's being paid for partly by a coal burning power company!)

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1126957.0.0.php