The funniest part of this piece from the Post on the 14 states that have rejected federal money for "abstinence-only" sex education programs is the point when the abstinence fans -- largely the same folks that want to delegate Roe v. Wade back to the states -- vow to force states to take the funding:
"We're talking about the health of millions of youth across the United States," said Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association. "We know abstinence education offers the best for them. Now is the time to put more emphasis on that message, not less."
When the states decide that this massive federal boondoggle is both ineffective and a vehicle for an idealogical agenda that they'd prefer not to endorse, they should be bullied into submission, or so goes this logic. Further proof that the right doesn't care about states rights or limiting federal government when it is inconvenient to their agenda.
--Kate Sheppard
