Palin has expressed her intent to support abstinence-only sex education in schools.  A woman who could not even teach her own daughter abstinence is now going to be in a position to tell schools how they should teach your children sex education (or else they won’t get Federal funding).

To revisit: Palin’s teenage daughter became pregnant out of wedlock.  She could not have gotten pregnant without having sexual intercourse.  Palin wants to teach your children in the same way hers was taught: “Don’t have sex because it’s wrong in the eyes of God until you are married”.  Well, too bad, teenagers have raging hormones and are going to get down.  Period.

Instead, seeing first-hand that Palin’s support of the unbelievably short-sighted and prejudiced view of teaching abstinence-only sex education (what kind of sex is that educating you about?) program instituted by the Bush administration, will only continue to see teen pregnancy rates rise.  This is a direct result of the abstinence-only sex education program.  It is time for social conservatives to realize that, like any other ideological group, their values hold true for only their group and the majority of people outside their ideological brigade probably feels an entirely different way.  It is wrong to insist that the children of 150 million Americans be taught abstinence-only when a good deal of the populace doesn’t agree with that view for many reasons.

The rebuttal to this is, “Why should my kids be taught that sex is OK as long as they use protection, etc. when I don’t agree with that view?”  The answer, plain and simple, is no one should be teaching your child about the intimacies of sex except for you, the parent(s). Sex education is in schools because parents are too timid, uneducated, or embarrassed to discuss sex with their children openly and candidly.  Therefore, schools must teach a broad array of things including abstinence, forms of birth control, diseases and transmission, so kids at least have some clue before its too late.

Either way, I can’t support any fool who thinks abstinence-only sex education is the way to go; especially since there is an example of that policy failing right in this particular fool’s own home.  This isn’t about condemning Sarah Palin and her daughter for their actions or choices in regards to the child on the way.  Things happen, teen pregnancy occurs (and used to be commonplace throughout history), and people deal with it.  What should not happen is a public electing a leader who cannot see the shortcomings within their views or policies when confronted with evidence to the contrary head-on.