@4:

Health education and U.S. history aren't political issues. But, if you really want your kids to become racist teenage parents then definitely keep on doing whatever you're doing in the privacy of your own home, m'kay?

Auntie Catalina's Sex Education:

Girls, don't let yourself be pressured into sex. When you're ready, make sure you have birth control, because you can't trust the boys. In the meantime, don't be afraid to mess around with your girlfriends. Find your erogenous zones, and - when you're ready to have sex with a boy - make sure he makes you happy there. If he's not good at oral, you don't want his dick in you. (although you may need to teach him. Many boys are terrified of vaginas at first)

Boys, don't pressure your girlfriends. I know you're horny. Have sex with your best male friend until your girlfriend is ready. It doesn't mean you're 'gay', and it will bond your friendship, and you'll be all ready for college or the military.

Everybody get the HPV vaccine. If your parents forbid it, you have rotten parents.

If it all goes sideways, remember this: Abort Early and Abort Often. When it doubt, cut it out. You've got your whole life ahead of you, and you can always have another. Besides, giving birth is overrated.

Now, who wants ice cream?

@7,

If you're looking to blame someone for boys dressing like girls having been made into a political issue, I'd suggest looking back at least to J. Edgar Hoover.

I just love that's its none of your business if I bring my limited edition Punisher AR-15 grocery shopping with me and also that I get to vote on where you put your dirty dick.

@Auntie Catalina -- "Boys, don't pressure your girlfriends. I know you're horny. Have sex with your best male friend until your girlfriend is ready.

It doesn't mean you're 'gay', and it will bond your friendship, and you'll be all ready for college or the military."

Just like the 'animals' do
(except for Thermonuclear War)!

"Everybody get the HPV vaccine. If your parents forbid it, you have rotten parents."

Running away to the Circus
is ALWAYS* a Viable Option.

"If it all goes sideways, remember this: Abort Early and Abort Often. When it doubt, cut it out. You've got your whole life ahead of you, and you can always have another. Besides, giving birth is overrated."

DUDE.
Post of the Decade.

"Now, who wants ice cream?"

& who needs a cigarette, too?

*'Less there's a fawking Pan-fucking Demic.
sorry -- wait'll Next Year! (if trumpfy's
still "president" we'll All Be Dead).

@8: "giving birth is overrated."

We can that that as a joke, or seriously. Let's examine it seriously:

You never experienced it. Besides, how can you begrudge a mother loving her baby unless your strategy is to disparage that which you cannot or have not experienced out of some sort of jeaslosy thing. Weird.

Don't underestimate these folks.
They have been busy organizing, they have put bodies out onto the streets in small towns waving signs with their kids in tow- "My Child, My Choice" , etc.
co-opting the language of the pro-choice movement.
They are mobilized and motivated and it is not just the Matt Shea faction, I suspect it is churches behind it.

14 is right that we should not underestimate the power of these wing-nut groups.

Swanee Hunt from Texas was just some out of state nut job oil heiress who opposes same sex marriage, gay rights and sex work. She works with far right groups like Morality in the Media that spends their time and resources getting the sports illustrated swimsuit issue banned and Vogue moved to the back of the grocery store to save the children from the "racy covers."

Fast forward to 2014 and she has bought off the King County prosecutor's office to back her neo-victorian view of sex as something dirty that should be suppressed. Next thing you know he King County prosecutors office is handing out felonies to enforce her nutty view of sexuality.

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2018/03/24/25953235/king-county-took-money-from-an-anti-prostitution-organization-then-unprecedented-felony-prosecutions-of-sex-buyers-began

With out criminal justice system for sale, far right wing anti-sex groups like this have a lot of leverage.

Oh dry up, Raindrop. You haven't experienced the "miracle" of birth either, so there's no need for you to get all Hallmark about it. My point is don't get pregnant too early (and if you do, abortion should be your first option). Too many girls are fed a line about how wonderful it is to be a mother. And it is - when the woman is ready and willing. Other than that, it's being saddled with a lifetime of responsibility that she wasn't ready for. That's not fair to her or her child.

@4 Bikey, the reality is that no teenagers ever had any form of sex, and nobody who was gay was ever gay ONLY because they went to sex ed class. Keeping kids sexually ignorant doesn't stop them having sex, and it doesn't stop LGBTQ teens from being LGBTQ, because that's how they were born.

The only agenda in getting the sex ed bill was teaching kids about their physical, biological, and emotional truths, and about reality.

"...all Hallmark about it"

I wish a had a zinger reply, but I can't think of one.

Matt Shea is spawn of the Devil, lIke Trumpty Dumpty and its equally clueless MAGA minions.
@7, @11, and @13: You mindless MAGA trolls can just STFU since you have nothing productive to add to the comment thread.
@8 & @17: Auntie Catalina: Agreed and seconded on your sex ed advice. So spot on. And thanks for the ice cream offer. :)
@14 killapugos: Unfortunately, it's scary but true. These neofascist idiots, with plenty of ideal-illogical backing, have one goal, in four steps:
1. Fatten 'em up (clue: notice how many local produce markets and grocery stores selling healthy, nutritious food have all been bought out by Wal*Mart and McDonald's throughout the South?),
2. Dumb 'em down (so that everyone interbreeds into robo-controlled sheeple).
3. Strip all the rights of the U.S. citizens--including our right to vote--- so that we are a KKKorporate-KKKontrolled dictatorship.
4. Kill all the people and destroy the world because those in power are criminally insane.

@13: Quite frankly, I'd love to see you and equally clueless male trolls be forced to go through the permanently body-altering stages of a full term pregnancy and the agony of childbirth, labor and delivery, Rainy. You'd be rallying for abortion clinics to outnumber the churches and gas stations in no time.

@22: Is that so? Yes, men will never endure the pain of childbirth and that will be a card women will always play. Other than that, you don't have a point.

However, to relive your guilt, I suggest you write a thank you note to your mother thanking her for giving you life. It's the least you could do considering what she went though.

@22:

To quote Gloria Steinem, "if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament".

@23: See COMTE's comment @24, Rainy. You, on the other hand have never had a point other than what's hiding under your MAGA cap, and appear to believe that it is your charm. Is that why you troll 24 / 7? I rest my case.
@22 COMTE for the WIN, baybee!!!!

No further questions, Your Honor.

Auntie - you really should match the comment with the award recipient. The Academy would be most appreciative.

Children must go through proper education if they are to give informed consent, of course.
As per the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 34,. measure must be taken to prevent "the inducement or coercion of a child to engage in any unlawful sexual activity".
Note the adjective "unlawful" and remember the Devil is never in the details, because there is no such thing.