Whew. That Woulda Been Close!

Andy Birkey at the Minnesoros Monitor takes umbrage at the Minnesota Family Council’s response to the Legslture’s Sex Ed bill:

Part of the Family Council’s objections to a comprehensive sex education bill is that it would teach teens about certain sex acts and the risks inherent in those acts. The group opposes sex education that includes anal sex and anal-oral sex — a point it makes clear in its robo-calls. However, the bill itself would not mandate the teaching of these sex acts, only the teaching of “medically accurate and age-appropriate” sexual health information with curriculum decisions left to parents and school boards.

Which is either a complete explanation or a lie-by-omission.  Any socially-conservative parent in the public school system knows that “leaving decisions about these things that are left to parents and school boards”  is shorthand for “the Legislature will open the door, and the School Board meetings will be bum-rushed with activists who’ll ram through whatever it is they want”.

So the MFC responded with a phone message campaign.  Birkey notes…:

But, in its zeal to have the bill defeated, the Family Council in all likelihood inadvertently taught a few kids a little bit about anal and anal-oral sex. A colleague of mine shared a story she heard at her son’s soccer game last week. A local parent’s teenager picked up the phone and got an earful about anal sex from the Minnesota Family Council.

In fact the Family Council’s tirade about anal sex is left on answering machines and voicemails if no one picks up — answering machines and voicemails that children often check for messages.

Ow.

How dare  the Minnesota Family Council send a phone message that a small film of students might hear with information that is utterly morally objectionable…

…before the Minnesota Federation of Teachers – those noted experts on parenting and sexuality – can recite it to captive audiences of students.

Shudder.

6 thoughts on “Whew. That Woulda Been Close!

  1. Why is it, that whenever kids and sex are mentioned the “Birkey” crowd thinks it has to be involved?

  2. Scaife in the Dark

    RMS wants to send me a check, I’ll change the title. Hell yeah, I will.

    And I’d disclose the fact (on the chance that the title didn’t tell you – and with the likes of Joe Bodell and “Phoenix Woman” out there, it might not).

    Which is more than the Monitor ever did.

    Which seems to be the fact that Flash keeps missing.

  3. Why is it, that whenever kids and sex are mentioned the “Birkey” crowd thinks it has to be involved?

    Because to the left, the mission of education is to supplant parents whose views of the world aren’t sufficiently “progressive”. It’s Birkey’s job.

  4. I for one would be a lot more tolerant of the LGBT? crowd if they would stop hanging around the school yards (and the airport restrooms).

  5. I love the graphic on the MinnMoni page… it looks like a robogal is calling to get assistance while she’s getting serviced from behind.

    That, and the note that Eva Young saved the phone message.

    Of course she did. 😆

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