PBS will broadcast a P.O.V. documentary about a high school student’s crusade to bring comprehensive sex education to her Texas school. I suspect it’ll be a fascinating piece, especially for those of us who take such matters for granted because we’re lucky enough live in areas where comprehensive sex ed is mandated by law. I wonder though: If Bush’s abstinence-only law has been on the books in Texas for a good decade now, surely statistics would bear out whether teen pregnancy and STD rates have lessened in response to the message.
To teased blogfriend David with a hint of an answer: I can count this book as one of many recent purchases. I’m actually reading the lammy-winning A Seahorse Year right now, primarily because its sense of family in the face of brain chemistry chaos strikes so close to home for me, but I’m likely to take The Almond with me on vacation in mid-July.
Gay marriage as “the new abortion.” Take some time and read this article about the right’s organized opposition to gay marriage. And Andrew Sullivan’s right. Gay is today’s American anti-semitism.
