re: #563 davesax

This really gets under my skin.

I work for a respected, highly regarded, NFP that did research into abstinence programs to determine their effectiveness at influencing behaviour, and the results showed that these programs have no effect on behavior whatsoever.

The Bush administration knew about these findings but ignored them, instead choosing to throw over a hundred million dollars into domestic abstinence programs.

Abstinence programs are big business for the religious right. These organizations that pass out flyers in public schools rely on government money, yet conservative politicians have no problem with it.

And before anyone on here accuses the company I work for of being just another “liberal” NFP, the Bush administration supported findings we came up with that linked healthy, married families to academic and social welfare.

Couldn’t agree more. The “abstinence” programs are nothing but a sop to the religious right. They do NOT work. The people pushing them are more concerned with an imaginary moral issue than they are with people’s real lives.