{"id":2568,"date":"2008-05-15T05:58:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2008-05-15T05:58:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:58:02","slug":"whew-that-woulda-been-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"Whew. That Woulda Been Close!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Birkey at the Minnesoros Monitor takes umbrage<\/a> at the Minnesota Family Council’s response to the Legslture’s Sex Ed bill:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is either a complete explanation or a lie-by-omission.\u00a0 Any socially-conservative parent in the public school system knows that “leaving decisions about these things that are left to parents and school boards”\u00a0 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”.<\/p>\n

So the MFC responded with a phone message campaign.\u00a0 Birkey notes…:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ow.<\/p>\n

How dare\u00a0 <\/em>the Minnesota Family Council send a phone message that a small film of students might hear with information that is utterly morally objectionable…<\/p>\n

…before the Minnesota Federation of Teachers – those noted experts on parenting and sexuality – can recite it to captive audiences of students.<\/p>\n

Shudder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}