My mother thought that one became pregnant by holding hands.

Now that the War on Drugs in our schools that was fought in the 1980s is all but lost, it's time for the War on Sex.

• A 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person."
• HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be spread via sweat and tears.
• Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as often as 31 percent of the time in heterosexual intercourse.."

These are just some of the turds today's children are being forced to eat. (In fetish terms, kids, that's called "scat." It will be on the quiz.)

There's no better way, I feel, to raise a child to be a liberal than to use lies and fear to control behavior. I grew up being told all sorts of lies: All drugs are evil and will lead to a life on the streets. The poor and disenfranchised choose to be poor and disenfranchised so they can take advantage of the welfare system. Jesus, an attractive, long-haired white man from the Middle East, died for my sins. As I started to learn that this was all bullshit (respectively: everything in moderation, opportunity is not distributed fairly, Jesus had curly hair and an olive complexion), I started to believe that everything was bullshit. Those were the dark times that I still feel like I'm emerging from. However, at least it made me a proud liberal.

So now, children are being taught horrible, horrible lies about sex systematically, when the place for such lies is in the home. The title of this post is the truth, though I don't believe my mother's father, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, actually told her that; they just didn't discuss it, and my mother had to make her own decisions. Silence is just as dangerous as lying.

What is so wrong about telling kids the truth? The truth is pretty scary, too. Talk about what will happen to your life if you get pregnant at the age of 14. Talk about what happens when you get AIDS or herpes. Talk about how the only way to prevent this stuff is not to have sex. I'm fine with all of that. Just don't lie. When kids find out they've been lied to, that's when they rebel. And that's when they run out and smoke up a bunch of drugs and have a bunch of sex. Kids must have the tools to be responsible, and those tools do not include false information that can be proven false by spending 10 minutes in the school library.

Also from the article:

Some course materials cited in Waxman's report present as scientific fact notions about a man's need for "admiration" and "sexual fulfillment" compared with a woman's need for "financial support." One book in the "Choosing Best" series tells the story of a knight who married a village maiden instead of the princess because the princess offered so many tips on slaying the local dragon. "Moral of the story," notes the popular text: "Occasional suggestions and assistance may be alright, but too much of it will lessen a man's confidence or even turn him away from his princess."

That's right women. No sex until marriage, and when you do get married, shut up. It must be true; it's what you were taught in school.

Maybe there is something to be said for school vouchers. When I have kids, I can send them to a school that doesn't forcefeed garbage, if such a school would even exist.

(Thanks for the link, Stiggy.)