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  More like Republi-can’ts get anything right.
context: They're obsessed with sex.
  It's all they talk about.
  The only reason I even know drag queen story times exist is because of republicans. >
  
  Keep in mind it's only republicans actually connecting drag queen story times to sex.
  It's like when people dress up as Raggedy Ann/Andy or watch Ms. Doubtfire. It's a fun costume that entertains kids. Adult shows are their own separate thing. >
  
  Yeah. They make it about sex, because they're insecure deviants. >
  
  If m&m’s aren’t safe, nothing is >
  
  Teletubbies, M&Ms, Seuss, whatever.  Fake outrage to chum the waters.
  The people doing this are professional propaganda experts plying their grift. >
  
  Or are they just opening the door to “conservative values children’s books?
  *if you use this idea I want dat $$$ >
  
  /$ is the best you get on reddit. >
  
  Take away abortion. Take away sex education. Try to take away contraception. 
  Lots of teen pregnancies incoming. >
  
  Just look up teen pregnancy rates by states. You’ll be shocked at the pattern…. >
  
  For those wondering Link to CDC
  Pretty much what I expected, with the exception of Texas which I thought would be higher. >
  
  It has a more urbanized population than most of the other Southern States, which helps it to have better demographic numbers. >
  
  Makes you wonder why they (we) still can't have a Dem governor. >
  
  -Copious amounts of voter suppression
  -Perhaps the most apathetic Dem-leaning voting base of any state
  -Texas is absolutely massive.  So yes, you have plenty of large cities/urban centers, but you also have so many swaths of absolute shithole wasteland where everyone votes Republican and those areas add up quick. >
  
  55% of REGISTERED voters in Texas didn't bother to vote last time. Not people who couldn't get registered (due to apathy or difficulty) but people who were registered, but couldn't be bothered to vote.
  At some point it stops being "blame the victims" and starts being "blame the enablers." >
  
  Man, they closed something like 20 polling places for 500,000 voters. GTFO here with the insanity of victim blaming 500,000 people who have one day to wait in line at one polling place that was overloaded with 20,000 voters before. >
  
  No sex education, no abortion, no condoms, no contraception, only abstinence.  No wonder the highest teen pregnancy rates are in the most conservative areas of the country. >
  
  But somehow “it’s democrats who support big government overreach into private citizens’ lives.” >
  
  Keep in mind that sex education is one of the most effective ways to fight child sexual abuse because it teaches children what behaviors are abusive and that it is OK and proper to report it so you don't have to keep enduring it. >
  
  Yeah too much education and there won’t be anyone left for Matt to traffic! >
  
  They are trying to increase the supply of domestic infants. >
  
  How else are they going to keep doing blood rituals to keep themselves in power? (Jk, maybe?) >
  
  The projection is just too much. Time after time it seems like every single accusation is a confession, so when they say democrats eat babies it really makes me wonder... >
  
  Oh no, the andrenochrome or whatever is definitely already proven projection, when youve got sitcom characters doing it (Gavin Belson
  ), the cat is out of the bag. 
  So how much worse does it get than THAT? >
  
  I'm really hoping for cool footage of dudes in robes with a summoning circle personally. >
  
  Republicans are very openly terrified that there aren’t enough white teenagers getting pregnant. This isn’t just their repression around sex, but a much bigger plot to force young women into motherhood. >
  
  What will the Republicans do if all those young white girls do get pregnant but the daddies ain’t white? I bet they didn’t think about that. 
  The law of unintended consequences will hasten their demise. >
  
  Whatever it is, fuck em. Non-whites are just as Americans as the whites. Always have been. Don't let the extremists define America. The extremists are the opposite of what America is. >
  
  I could argue more so.  Much of the US used to be Mexico. >
  
  Spain had first dibs to a lot of it. >
  
  Take “sex” out of the headline and it’s more accurate. >
  
  If you have kids - you need to give them the real talk about sex from an early age. 
  The Republicans are taking all safety nets away while banning basic life saving medical treatments. 
  Roe isn’t coming back anytime soon. The only reason many women aren’t dying yet is because of Biden’s executive order that states the doctor must save the women if something horrible happens. 
  My friend’s daughter had her first period at age 6. 
  The kids need to know about sex and sexual abuse as soon as possible. They must know how to defend themselves. They also must know that you’re there to talk to if they need help. 
  The little girls are in serious danger because of these new laws. 
  The boys are in danger, too. But not nearly as much as the girls. 
  If you’re an adult woman in a red state - do not get pregnant. We don’t know when the fetal personhood law will happen. It’s looking like it will happen sooner than later. They will want to make an example of someone - don’t be that person. 
  It’s just not worth it to have a baby now.
  Desantis is going for a full 6 week abortion ban without exception for rape or incest. Educate you’re girls - and protect yourself. >
  
  It's funny you say this. I have noticed a lot more people are getting sterilised now, and have more than a few times seen posts from women deciding to not have any(more) children because of how hostile things are becoming. They're not sure if the healthcare will be there should something go wrong. The GOP are heading towards a repeat of 1980s Romania, which did not go well and ended up with the head honcho being executed as a result of his extreme policies. >
  
  They'll be coming after sterilization soon. We have already a lot of doctors who won't sterilize women of child-bearing age (even with serious problems with their reproductive organs) because their hypothetical future husband/boyfriend might want a child. >
  
  I can imagine them comparing it to eugenics and white erasure despite the fact that it's by choice. >
  
  Oh, they will. >
  
  They have to mischaracterize the issue because the reality is too reasonable to get mad about. >
  
  Is there anything republicans aren’t scared of? >
  
  Apparently getting lied to, ripped off, and scammed by con men is just a normal and accepted part of life for them. >
  
  Not con men they agree with anyway... >
  
  And then the Republicans will start raging about the moral decay among teens because they are having more children.  And whining about the cost of supporting teen mothers on welfare >
  
  I'm waiting for them to start crying about being handed the bill for the women permanently disabled by being denied a D & C for septic pregnancies or being forced carry high risk pregnancies when the mother has serious health issues, babies born with severe disabilities, and the surrendered at birth babies. >
  
  Yet another case of:
  If there is an obvious right and wrong answer to an issue, Republicans unilaterally take the wrong answer every time. 
  There is even data to back up the proposition that the best abortion prevention is contraception and sex education. If they really wanted to stop abortions (they don't), this is the opposite of how to accomplish that. >
  
  They actually believe they can convert an entire nation into abstinent Christians. You cannot physically stop an entire nation from having sexual relations. Disarming them from making informed choices and staying safe is abusive. >
  
  Haven’t they already been at war with sex ed since the 80s? >
  
  It’s because they don’t want their children victims to be educated enough to be able to identify a pregnancy early enough for abortion to do something about it. >
  
  Liberals do not want to prevent their teens from getting pregnant, rather they want to make it safe and fun to begin with. Later they want to have choice to terminate it >
  
  Liberals do largely want to prevent their teens from getting pregnant, as opposed to encouraging them to get pregnant solely to abort it later. Teen pregnancy is not a good thing. >
  
  The best way to prevent abortion isn't banning it, it's access to sex education and contraception.
  Why are Republicans against these things? Are they stupid enough to shoot themselves in the foot on the issue they say they care about the most? Or are they lying when they say they care?
  Are abortion bans about saving lives? Or are they really just punishing women for having sex? >
  
  They don't care about abortion or babies, that's why.  Their ultimate goal is for women to be forced back into the home as stay-at-home housewives.
  They would rather a baby grow up in an orphanage or even die than to be raised by a loving gay couple. >
  
  No sex education means more pregnant teens and even preteens. Fucking pedophiles piece of shit republicans >
  
  Sex Ed also teaches people about consent. They really want the Anglo Saxon version of Afghanistan. They want it to be rape city for a woman if she walks outside without a relative and they want everybody to get pregnant or get somebody pregnant by 16, like in villages in war torn countries experiencing famine. I have to say as a population of people we really are bizarre, anti-intellectual, and over all weak. >
  
  Rush Limbaugh gave one of the most unintentionally accurate statements about how Republicans view consent:
  
  “If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine, whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.” >
  
  So, eliminate the most effective way to prevent accidental pregnancy and STDs? >
  
  And child abuse, yeah. >
  
  GOP cognitive dissonance at work.  They want to eliminate abortion but don't want to teach people ways to avoid getting pregnant.
  Edited to correct spelling of the word dissonance. >
  
  I think you mean dissonance... and the point is definitely to have more women stuck being full-time mothers so they don't do things like be financially independent or complete college education.  
  They want people who fuck to be forced to have kids because they think that's a just consequence for fucking and are in denial that their own abstinence-trained kids do it just as much. >
  
  This is why I started teaching my kids age appropriate sex ed from age 5. I also taught them about consent and didn’t force them to interact with anyone they didn’t want to (no, they didn’t have to give Grandma a hug if they didn’t feel like it). They are now young adults and still come to me with questions if needed. None of them are or have been sexually active yet - none of them have even been on a date - but, when that happens, they’re  ready.
  Denying science doesn’t accomplish anything and neither does abstinence based sex ed. I find it ironic that the states that deny science and teach abstinence based sex ed have the highest teen pregnancy rates. Make it make sense! They insist their way works but the research doesn’t back them up and yet, they continue to preach it does. Forget science for a moment - can’t they SEE all the teens with babies wandering around!
  So, they’ll take away our right to abortion and then take away everything that helps stop the need for it like comprehensive sex ed and easy access to birth control. Just more proof it’s not about BaBIeS it’s about control. >
  
  What's even more ridiculous is that even if you are abstinent until marriage, that doesn't magically mean you don't need to know about reproductive health topics. I know so many people who got abysmal sex education and they know next to nothing about even basic things like what normal menstrual cycles should be like. >
  
  So … they want to make people less educated leading to an increase in teen pregnancy and spread of STDs, resulting in a further impoverished general population that’s in worse health. Oh, and the vast majority can’t afford to raise a family or get healthcare.
  Got it. 
  🖕GOP >
  
  Republicans declare war on ~~sex~~ education.
  Fixed the headline. >
  
  
  Republicans declare war on America
  
  That’s what I’d write. >
  
  Newy Gingrich's "Contract On America" has been in play for decades. >
  
  Remember that it included mandatory term limits, until the Republicans took control of the House.  Then these same Republicans who ran on term limits demurred, citing the value of seniority in committee assignments. >
  
  Damn, they remove abortion, want to get rid of birth control and now sex Ed. Let's just keep all the woman pregnant. Just keep the poor poor >
  
  And then they'll have a much larger homeless problem they can rant about and call for more police crackdowns on them. The police won't have the money to jail repeat offenders and will start buying bus tickets for them. >
  
  So, eliminate the most effective way to prevent accidental pregnancy and STDs? >
  
  Christian Fascism
  It’s weird right?  Most republicans don’t seem Christian at all.  
  Too bad all this culture wars idiocy is just a smoke screen that our corporate-bought representatives and senators use to distract us from the theft of money from the poor and middle class. >
  
  They want more poor and less educated people in their states who will work for a dime in the factory. >
  
  (theyve been at war with it for the past 20 or 30 years) >
  
  Because they mostly pay for sex and just lay there and hope the stock doesn’t arrive >
  
  Gotta try to find a way to replenish the GOP voter base after most of the COVID deaths were their uneducated supporters. >
  
  Way back I was an exchange student in the US (and) A.
  One thing that blew my mind then was anti sex ed + anti abortion as a coherent "thought".
  Condoms + teens = less need for abortions, I thought back then. >
  
  Essential to grooming potential victims is to identify who has the necessary combination of ignorance, innocence, and gullibility.
  Republicans are turning into the party of predators and con artists, and they want to ensure a steady supply of their most precious resource - their victims. >
  
  Occam's razor for you guys: Why would any group willing to victimize significant demographics to fight child sex abuse and "infanticide" also oppose all the proven effective ways that actually reduce both? >
  
  I'm sure they can point to all the data that supports this approach's efficacy. >
  
  They're not interested in efficacy.
  They're terrified declining birth rates are thinning the work force, and the only other alternative to keep the work force filled with worker drones is immigration. And we all know how they feel about that.
  Cutting education to keep the worker drones dumb and indentured creates a whole generation of wage slaves. >
  
  I don't think it's even that. It's they were taught these policies appeal to Republican voters and win them elections. And it did in the past. And because it worked in the past, they're going to keep working the same strategy  until the backlash gets too intense, then they'll back off temporarily. As they have before. 
  They now have a GOP made more than partially up of true believers who were raised on the rhetoric and they will stick by the rhetoric to the end. Then they'll reject the outcome, because they are sure they are right and know what's best for everyone. >
  
  That's one way to ensure a supply of poor, cheap labor. >
  
  It might appear at first glance to be about sex education. But their goal is actually to teardown an open society. To ban books  an eliminate open conversations. >
  
  Republics = Taliban >
  
  Then they need to start with the church if they are so concerned about the children. >
  
  What sex education? My rural school in Appalachia had a singular semester health class that never broached the subject. The closest our curriculum got to sex ed was in biology class discussing gene transfer and gametes.
  It was incredibly pathetic, and I had to unlearn lies and myths while educating myself about the subject. Unsurprisingly, a giant chunk of my class ended up with kids before they were 20.
  Republicans have been waging war on sex ed for decades. Now they have the perfect storm of anti-choice laws, criminalization of abortion, repression of women's rights, and poor education. They're trying to breed a generation into being that'll be subservient to the republican party because they'll be uneducated and poor. >
  
  It's in your best interest as a parent to educate your kids about sex at the appropriate age. Teenagers are going to experiment given the opportunity. I certainly did, and I'm glad I was armed with some knowledge about contraception, STDs and how girls work. You can preach abstinence all you want, but kids will be kids. 
  The inevitable outcome will be a not-insignificant number of teen pregnancies, STD outbreaks and people who think pee is stored in the balls. >
  
  Is this a headline from the 1970s? >
  
  I would say between 2016 and 2020, we lost about 50 years of social progress in this country, so that would be about right. >
  
  I can't help but believe if a Republican knew how to get a woman off, he would be somehow against it. >
  
  Groomers, every one of them. 
  An educated child is harder to prey on.
  So republicans hate educated children >
  
  Again? How many times do ya'll wanna lose this fight? Remember in the 2000s when you passed all those abstinence only laws and teen pregnancies skyrocketed? >
  
  Cruelty is the Point, you know this. >
  
  They're just trying to prevent Republican women from finding out that they're supposed to have orgasms to >
  
  Republicans. Are. Evil. >
  
  Republican = Taliban >
  
  Talibangelicals >
  
  Taliban genitals >
  
  They're spending time on the wrong kind of inflation. >
  
  Tried and true method in desperation to remain relevant when they are in the wrong about everything else too >
  
  People that vote Republican tend toward the authoritarian side.  They think you should do what you are told.  If they tell you don’t have sex until you are married then that should be enough.  You should do as you are told.  They also tend toward punishment over reward.  If you don’t do what you are told then you should suffer the consequences.
  It just baffles me that a person wants to force others to conform to their ways but can’t think about the roles being reversed and recognize we need to protect personal freedom as much as possible because the roles could be reversed.  It is mental gymnastics for sure to believe others should conform to your ways when it has no impact on you and also believe in freedom (sex only within marriage is your choice; believing God decides if you get pregnant is your choice, freedom is me making different choices for me) >
  
  Thanks.  I didn’t read all of it.  I have read a lot of books on the brain and it’s amazing plasticity.  It seemed like in the parts of the study I read that they think brain structure is the reason.  I think the brain is structured a lot by their environment.  If you grow up with parents that emphasize that you should respect your elders and obey authority then wouldn’t your brain structure itself that way too.  It is difficult to know which has more influence….genetics or environment.  I do recall reading a book where they studied identical twins separated at birth and were surprised at how similar they were in thoughts.  The more important question is how do we live together?  Their continuing move toward more authoritarianism is scaring me. >
  
  I have a solution someone goes into the Republican party and goes authoritarian against the Republican voters and “push them somewhere else,” like in 15. If you know, you know. >
  
  It's a war on education. This is just the part they think they can get support for. >
  
  It makes perfect sense if your goal is to baby trap a woman because you're too much of an abusive piece of shit to ever attract one willingly. >
  
  They're already moving to try to stop those that are pregnant from fleeing abortion ban states. At  least one state, Missouri, has a law that you can't get divorced while pregnant even if who you're married to isn't the biological father of the fetus. >
  
  One crazy thing about getting older, is witnessing how the political right has a list of their greatest hits that they put on about a 20 year loop.  
  Stuff you think they moved on from comes roaring back when the rubes start to catch on to the current distraction politics they trot out.
  We are back in the early 80s with hysteria about Satanists and corrupting children. >
  
  Why are the Republicans targeting such important educational programs like Sex Ed. and Black History? It’s so weird. These classes/courses are nothing new. I went to school in the 90s and nobody complained about these courses. 
  Do they want teen girls to get pregnant due to lack of knowledge about contraception and be forced to have babies since abortions are now illegal and then provide very little child support since the Republicans are against any form of social welfare. As much so as to the point where merely the word “welfare” is almost a slur in the US no thanks to the Republicans. These people have lost their way.
  Neglect to educate about sex, ban abortions, provide little support for the mother and child after forced labor. That’s the Republican Party today. I can’t wait for a Republican member of Congress to have their own daughter get pregnant. They would be the first to get a secret abortion rather than go public about their 15 year old little girl’s mishap resulting in pregnancy. What a shame. Shouldn’t this be enough to point people away from the GOP all together? They only want to strip away all systems of support so that the wealthy can retain more of their money through lower taxes.
  Can’t be taught safe sex, can’t get an abortion either. Dumb. >
  
  
  Why are the Republicans targeting such important educational programs like Sex Ed. and Black History? It’s so weird. These classes/courses are nothing new. I went to school in the 90s and nobody complained about these courses.
  
  Fundamentalist Christianity didn't have near the power in the 90s that it does today.  They were actually still angry about all of these things back then, but they didn't have the power to stop them.  Now they do. >
  
  We can just repeat 1915 to the Fundamental Christians; you know, we just “take them and push them somewhere else.” >
  
  Republicans continue* war on sex education. >
  
  Sex education prevents genital warts. Republicans are pro genital warts. >
  
  We need a new sub on Reddit for sex education for teens and young adults to mitigate the literal fucking disinformation that issues from Republican bullshit. 
   Properly and responsibly moderated, of course. >
  
  Scarlateen is a great website for that now! >
  
  "We are against abortion, but we are also against teaching kids about birth control." >
  
  Again?
  ::sigh:: Well, get ready for an upsurge in unwed teenage mothers in red states.... AGAIN. >
  
  In neighboring Oklahoma, Republican lawmakers filed numerous bills this session looking to impose or otherwise expand on existing restrictions of certain expressions of gender identity and blocking teachers from teaching subjects like sex ed, with some seeking to outlaw a state-funded sex education initiative started in 2020 to address high teen birth rates in various hotspots around the state. >
  
  Again?! I know everything is a remake these days but we already did sex panics on queer people and sex Ed >
  
  What happened to their war on contraceptives to complete the Republican pentagram of evil >
  
  Is anybody else as stunned as I am that any of the GOP planned regression could be happening in the 21st century? I thought we were progressing forward on this crap. >
  
  ChristianoTaliban >
  
  I don’t think I have seen a large group of people try so hard to prevent the masses from obtaining knowledge 
  or healthcare 
  a living wage
  “what did you learn in school today?”
  “we learned some tactical strategies to lay down covering fire for our classmates during an active shooter incident and for some reason three girls in our class are having babies and one of them smiled at” >
  
  Cool, an article from 20 years ago /s >
  
  May the party that has fueled hate, inequity and madness be rendered functionality extinct in the next voting cycle. I am sick of all of them, from Regan to the orange Idiot, all of them have gutted the country for what? Too many formerly cold war criminals and corporate narcissist have made the USA an place visit, not a place to invest. If you don't have a market that can afford your health care or technology or educational systems what is the advantage to these disease mongers? School vaccination programme were eliminated with Regan and school breakfast. Fools. >
  
  Seriously. Serious question. Can anyone point to ANY republican policies that reduce abortion other than making it illegal?
  Anything at all?
  I don't love abortion. It makes me uncomfortable, because I can't draw a clear line between "baby deserving of protection" and "parasitic lump of cells incapable of thought or feeling". I don't think it should be illegal, but I am COMPLETELY in favor of initiatives that would minimize abortions such as sex education, investing in adoption programs, health care improvements, financial aid for mothers, etc, etc, etc.
  Republicans hate abortion even more than I do, so logically speaking it seems like they should be even more aggressive in the above policies and more.  And yet.....not so much. >
  
  Have you ever spoken to a modern Evangelical? They will flat out deny reality in favor of their own imagined biblical fantasy world where abstinence-only education is the only workable solution. >
  
  Republicans declare war on *education >
  
  I think we all know that there's no need for the word 'sex' in that sentence. >
  
  Are republicans actively working to move America to that status of a development nation? >
  
  But Jesus? >
  
  Ha!  Jesus couldn't handle his wood. >
  
  So, they want to end abortion - under ANY circumstances, but also get rid of sex education and contraception. Looking to raise another generation of stupid slave voters?? >
  
  Oh look, the sky is blue >
  
  No one has ever benefitted from knowing less about their bodies.
  Republicans don't want anyone to benefit. They're out here doing their best to actively harm you. >
  
  The teen pregnancy heat map and the Republican population heat map are the same map. >
  
  Don't need the sex qualifier on there. >
  
  This happened back in the early 2000s, too. And it was a pretty hard push. It happens anytime Republicans gain or lose any ground in the government branches. It’s a way to renew this nonsense every generation, and it gets less and less effective, and more and more extreme. >
  
  To break this toxic spell is by establing a multiparty system with open primaries RCV/STAR/Approval taking FPTP's place.
  A multiparty system is proved to be more democratic, healthier, stabler and more representative of voters' preferences. >
  
  You’re getting ahead of yourself, there. I agree, but theocracy appeals to, like, a third of the US and another third doesn’t give a shit. That’s gotta go. Moreover, one of the major parties absolutely refuses to govern a majority of citizens, so creating more parties may not work the way you (and me) hope they will. >
  
  I'm optimistic about it. The two major parties could (and should) break up into smaller parties. It's more healthier this way. >
  
  56 years ago in my jr high School Suburban Chicago, several female teachers and the school nurse, held a "covert" sex-ed class, for 10 girls and 10 boys, it was a blunt, no words minced while in this sex-ed class. We were picked because the teachers thought we were mature enough to handle the class and it's descriptive information. As local parents got wind of this class, calls were made to have the class shut down, we held on as long as possible, but finally the Principal had to shut it down.  A pie in the face to all the parents who complained about a SEX class in school, OMG!!!  As the next year rolled around , last year's records showed our sex-ed class, in our school, was the only one in the entire large suburban school system,  that had  no teenage  pregnancies.  Information, it's a beautiful thing. >
  
  Seems almost like they want what Middle East has. >
  
  The "restore freedom" party starts another war on freedom. Smh >
  
  You can’t be a statistic if you don’t know what a ‘statistic’ is. >
  
  Again??? >
  
  "Declare"?
  They've been at war with accurate sex education since at least 1992, when my sixth grade sex ed class had a local minister's wife come in to teach the class by explaining how condoms and the pill will give you cancer, and if you have sex even once outside of marriage then no one will ever be able to love you again.
  And, amazingly, they've been getting worse ever since. >
  
  Fuck every Republican and anyone who supports them >
  
  
  A recent 20-year study by researchers at New York University found that funding for more comprehensive sex education actually led to an average county-level reduction in teen pregnancy rates of up to 7 percent over a five-year period.
  A more comprehensive review published by the Journal of Adolescent Health last year found that expanded sex education—particularly around gender identity—also led to decreased rates of homophobic bullying in schools as well as reduced rates of sexual harassment and intimate partner violence.
  
  More of the "facts and freedom" party ignoring facts and restricting freedoms. >
  
  Can’t let the kiddies know they’re being abused, that would make Mr. Gaetz very sad. >
  
  Always have. Gop wants preg teens trapped into endless unhappy marriages. >
  
  Better sex ed leads to less child rape.  
  Of course Rs are against it. >
  
  Republicans hate what they never got. >
  
  Every headline is GOP declares war on stuff that doesn’t matter. They are worthless and won’t focus on real issues. Republicans are the swamp! >
  
  Sex education and abortion do matter. >
  
  True, but this is negative progress and shouldn’t be. Sex education, availability to contraception, abortions and etc should always be progressing and improving. People babbling about what people do with their own damn body is getting old and doesn’t effect them at all. >
  
  They believe God will destroy the country and send them to hell if they don't control what everyone does with their private parts. >
  
  The same god that they virtual do the opposite of what they teach. They are already hell bound, but they can pray it all away and keep doing the opposite. >
  
  Most don't actually believe in God. They find what the church teaches useful and it gives them good credit they never had to earn. >
  
  Indeed, it’s time to tax the church since separation of church and state doesn’t exist. You want a voice, you have to pay. >
  
  It's long past time and no one will touch it, because it is political death. >
  
  Country is full twilight zone. >
  
  More seeds of ignorance sewn by anti-education republicans. >
  
  They declared war on sex education decades ago. >
  
  Republicans/con the scum of the earth. >
  
  They fight education in general to achieve less awareness and criticism. And they fight sex education in order to have an at will cannon fodder and affordable manpower. >
  
  Don't they have better things to do?  Like fight income inequality?  World hunger?  Inflation? >
  
  Honestly I thought they had already been waging war on that for like decades.....same ol' shit they always are outraged about just the most recent version.... fucking assholes. >
  
  Stop sex ed + Stop abortions = Lots of baby republicans. >
  
  They want more young impressionable mothers which increases the population and subjugates them to financial poverty while also cutting off social nets and that’s how you create slave wage workers >
  
  Republicans are going to declare war on anything that impacts people who are not straight white men. >
  
  What is this, news week from ever since we tried to include a comprehensive sex ed in public schools? They've been attacking sex ed for decades, I remember there being a controversy large enough for our health class to be forced to allow people to walk out during them teaching us about what STDs were, and this was back in the early 2000's. >
  
  GOP are consumed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism. >
  
  War on ~~sex, gender, history,  nutritional, social issues, racism, sexuality, religious...~~  education >
  
  Declare war on education . Fixed it for you >
  
  If we don't teach them how they won't know how to do it!!! >
  
  Again? Who can keep up. >
  
  Can't we just put all Republicans in Nevada ,the Dakotas, and Wyoming- Those states have plenty of room... >
  
  They've been against sex ed for a long time. This isn't new.
  My one and only sex ed class was in Deltona, FL. They split the sexes for some reason? Then they just gave the guys a booklet and deodorant for some reason?
  The girls got a book too and tampons. Those booklets had a smell that I STG I will never forget.
  Unsure why we got deodorant...and the girl got something useful >
  
  The tighter they squeeze, the more systems will slip through their fingers. >
  
  
  Republicans declare war on sex education
  
  What, even more than the last couple of decades? >
  
  Cannot wait for the GOP to cut department of education and all federal funds to state governments for education.  Perform all the cuts under the guise of "we can't let federal funds for any sex ed". >
  
  What century am i living in? >
  
  Reminder that most conservative politicians send their kids to schools with comprehensive sex ed. 
  They just don't want the poor people to have it. >
  
  No coincidence that teen pregnancy and STD rates skyrocket in their states. >
  
  These people really want to abuse children >
  
  Republicans are weird. >
  
  I’ve seen comments about teen pregnancy but there’s other topics of importance too. Rates of chalamydia and gonorrhea are high among teens (untreated it can lead to infertility or PID). The US is having an uptick in syphilis, and HIV is also still spreading. Sex Ed allows for kids to express what’s going on with their bodies including ways to talk about sexual assault/molestation, it teaches kids about why their body is changing and what to expect, and it teaches teens about their bodies and what is normal. If we don’t educate people on how their bodies work, what types of sex exist, how disease works with sex, and how to prevent disease and pregnancy, we are doing a disservice to future adults. Lack of sex ed leads to higher rates of STDs due to lack of knowledge. For example, many people don’t know that you can get chlamydia in the throat and test negative on a urine sample. Syphilis (if left untreated) can cause permanent loss of vision or brain damage, and if the person is pregnant, it leads to still birth. Then there’s HIV, which is still spreading and killing people but now we have medications that help keep people living with HIV healthier for longer and they have less side effects than older treatments. We also have prevention medications (PrEP) (nPEP) and harm reduction programs to help reduce risk of acquiring HIV or other STDs and pregnancy. >
  
  That's a bad sign,  when politics mixes with religion! >
  
  Politics has never not mixed with religion, and it's impossible to separate the two as long as religion exists.  If someone is really religious, of course it will affect what they see as right or wrong, and therefore their politics.
  Separation of church and state doesn't mean religious people can't be involved in politics.  It just means they don't get to use their religion as justification for making a political decision.  They will continue trying to make non-religious arguments for their beliefs. >
  
  GOP Genital Obsessed Party >
  
  Republican sex ed: "Jimmy remember if you plow a girl that doesn't have the same skin color, you're corrupting your white pride. Also it's wrong to touch men unless there 50 years older than you, see it as a privilege jimmy." >
  
  That headline gives me a mental image. Republicans, armed like Republicans, facing off against sex-ed teachers, who are wielding the educational implements used in that class. >
  
  Fascism 101 - if you're going to make a fascist state, this is one of the first ingredients to use. >
  
  The reality is that kids are going to "learn" about sex from PornHub. >
  
  Let's be real and they've declared war on any advances post 1500 CE >
  
  These are probably the same people that go to Hooters and Twin Peaks for lunch. >
  
  I’m a microbiologist and I’ve been telling my kids about STDs for years. They are telling your kids. You can let the schools teach, or your kids will learn from YouTube and their friends. >
  
  Here we come 80s and 90s >
  
  We really are regressing aa a country aren't we? >
  
  When republicans say we are a christian nation, they are referring to certain cultural behaviors, a notable part of which is sex as sin. >
  
  They declared war on Education in the 70s, and Democrats stood back and allowed them to create a bottomless cesspool of poorly educated thugs, that get their thoughts and opinions from their Pastor and Fox News*. Tens of Millions of voters in more than half of US states, now believe that education is evil and want it to end. >
  
  I learned about gay people from watching family guy >
  
  Republicans declare war on education period. >
  
  Didn't they declare war in that like 50 years ago? And again pretty much every year since? >
  
  War implies both sides are engaged in combat. This is more of a sex education progrom. >
  
  Let’s make abortion illegal and then outlaw teenagers finding out about how you get pregnant! >
  
  I shake my head at people who believe in setting up our children to fail. >
  
  Obsessed with sex. >
  
  Abstinence education always works.  /s
  Teen humans have a biological imperative to mate and reproduce. A GOD™ given imperative if you wish.     Thus it has always been. >
  
  They need their wage slaves. >
  
  Sounds like a great way to make more abortions. >
  
  Haven't Republicans been fighting against sex education for decades now?  This isn't new at all. >
  
  Imagine wanting to end abortion and creating policies that directly cause more unwanted pregnancies >
  
  They want a bunch of poor, dumb peasants who will do the work that the owner class wants done at prices the owner class wants to pay.  They do that by keeping women barefoot and perpetually pregnant. >
  
  It's a broader war on Public Schools. Republicans want to end Public Education and use tax dollars to form Cristo-fascist Medrassas for tomorrow's Capitol gate-crashers. They couldn't be more obvious. >
  
  "-education in this country is governed by a patchwork of laws and policies at the state, district and even individual school level," 
  There fixed that for you because America, much like it’s health care, has the worst education system in the developed world. And if you look at them today, see what they watch on TV, how they live and who they vote for, no one is surprised. >
  
  If they don’t know anything about sex it’s only fair that nobody else does. >
  
  Haven’t they been at war with sex education for decades? >
  
  The only thing conservatives know about sex is missionary! >
  
  We've been through this already. As if the 70s never happened. >
  
  We need more uneducated poor people that will open their wallets give us the contents and live off the lint that’s left. >
  
  Late to the party? >
  
  
  In Texas, a school superintendent in Fort Worth recently abandoned the district's proposed $2.6 million adoption of a sexual education curriculum after the state's Republican-led Legislature passed legislation in 2021 requiring a parent's written consent for their children to receive sex education.
  
  Why does having to ask for parental consent lead to scrapping the whole program? When I was in public school in NYC we had to get parental consent for sex ed and it wasn't a big deal. Most parents consented, some didn't \_(ツ)_/¯ >
  
  Birth rates are declining that is unacceptable. Must have wheat for the millstone. >
  
  The right continues to be anti-education >
  
  They only now declared it? What was the past 50 years, a guerilla war? >
  
  The GQP are literally obsessed with sex and gay sex with minors. Why else would they accuse responsible teachers experiencing queerness of doing exactly so? >
  
  Can we please already stop calling them the GOP or GQP or other and just call them what they are...The church and or evangelical donor party? I mean it's basically the church/evangelical lobby in Washington that's orchestrating this and has been for years... >
  
  Conservatives always hate education. >
  
  No sex education.
  No birth control.
  No abortions.
  Call it what it really is, a war on women. >
  
  There should be a comma between “sex” and “education,” as they’re waging a war on both.