Monday, December 20, 2010

Kathy Martin, fan of creationism, also loves her some abstinence

Posted by Justin Kendall on Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM

click to enlarge Kathy Martin won't tell you to wear a rubber.
  • Kathy Martin won't tell you to wear a rubber.

Bust out your chastity belts, the Kansas Board of Education is talking about abstinence. The Kansas board has been controversy-free since 2007, when moderates voted to overturn science standards that challenged evolution and changed the definition of science (and made Kansas a laughingstock).

So here we have creationist Kathy Martin asking her fellow board members to block an annual contribution to an HIV/AIDS conference unless there's a "balance" of abstinence info at the Kansas City conference. The Topeka Capital-Journal quoted Martin saying: "This is something that is dear to me. As an educator, I can't in good

conscience tell a teenager, 'sure, honey, put on a condom and have a

good time with your boyfriend.'" Is Kathy Martin telling us sex is better without a condom?



Guessing not, but she is a mother of three.

The Kansas State Department of Education has a deal with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pony up $8,000 to help pay for expenses at the conference where "teachers, school nurses guidance counselors" listen to speakers and

"discuss best practices in the area of HIV/AIDS and human sexuality

education." Best practices like if you're going to screw, wrap it up.

Martin wanted to make sure abstinence gets equal time, although even her fellow conservatives were trying to figure out what she meant by balance. The board shot down her idea of withholding the money -- and putting abstinence on a future meeting agenda.

To her credit, Martin packed it in. She told reporters taht she won't broach the subject until 2014 -- when K-12 health standards are up for review. Who knows if she'll even be on the board by then -- her current term runs through 2011.

And kids, even the Muppets and Fraggles know to wrap it up.


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"have we truly progressed by rejecting the wisdom and common sense of our forefathers?"

The wisdom that women weren't capable of taking care of themselves? That children were for sending to work as young as possible? That slavery was perfectly acceptable, in fact was endorsed by God? That 14 year-old girls should marry 50 year-old men?

Apparently you believe that all social problems began in the 1960's; this is a common fallacy among people who are ignorant of history, and those who believe social problems are easily solved by just cracking down on unruly kids.

Good luck with that. Abstinence training didn't work so well for Sarah Palin.

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Posted by GalapagosPete on 12/21/2010 at 10:15 PM

in this day and age of rampant std's and teen pregnancy. perhaps pitch weekly shouldn't be so quick to place disdain on this woman for promoting sexual restraint amongst our youth? i find it more appaling how tv, movies and advertising make the young feel inadequate and uncool for not having sex. while her views in favor of creationism may be one thing, i know for sure when morality, tradition and sexual self restraint were seen as good. we didn't have countless hordes of unwed mothers who dropped out of school and one out of every four to five americans with herpes and there was no such thing as aids either.
have we truly progressed by rejecting the wisdom and common sense of our forefathers? look at how epidemic our poverty rates and children born into homes where they are unwanted and have a fifty percent divorce rate. then try to say with a straight face that we have progressed.

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Posted by Elijah on 12/21/2010 at 8:38 PM
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