Romney also once backed "age-appropriate" sex ed

politico.com ^ | 07/19/07 | Jonathan Martin

[AzaleaCity5691]

Once again, the national government has no business taking any kind of position on this issue, it’s an issue best left for states.

[WOSG]

Do you support the teaching of responsible, age-appropriate, factually accurate health and sexuality education, including information about both abstinence and contraception, in public schools?”

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This is one of those bogus questions so I’d have to answer
YES.
- Where ‘age-appropriate’ means you teach them to abstain at every age up to grade 12, and where you *dont* expose them to deviant ‘lifestyles’ and insist on calling it normal
- Where ‘responsible’ means you tell them to listen to parents and give parents the right to direct what messages they will get
- where ‘abstinence’ is taught as the best form of contraception (works every time its tried)
- where ‘factually accurate’ means telling them that abortion kills an unborn human being and that it is a terrible and dreadful thing to do that should be avoided in all cases

Ya think Planned Parenthood would like that?

[WOSG]

No they weren’t. Not ever. Quit trying to peddle BS.

” ... in 2005 when Romney was criticized by Massachusetts pro-choice groups when he began to push an abstinence-heavy focus on sex education.”

Where has Obama praised, pushed or even agreed with abstinence-heavy focus on sex ed????

[WOSG]

“Mitt Romney created ABSTINENCE sex ed in Massachusetts.

He fought to promote abstinence education in public school classrooms with a program offered by faith-based Boston group Healthy Futures to middle school students. Gov. Romney’s administration was the first in Massachusetts to use federal abstinence education funds for classroom programs.
http://myclob.pbwiki.com/04-20-2006

That is age appropriate sex education just not the kind liberals like.”

Thanks for injecting facts into an otherwise fact-free thread!!

[WOSG]

“I’m no Romney fan, but I’m getting tired of all the Republican bashing around here.”

It’s time freepers took a page from Romney:
THE FOLKS TO CRITICIZE ARE THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS,
not other conservatives and Republicans.

[highball]

Former Gov. Mitt Romney attacked Sen. Barack Obama yesterday for purportedly wanting sex education in kindergarten.

It turns out, Romney himself once indicated support for the same sort of sex-ed approach -- "age-appropriate" -- that Obama backs.

Unfortunately, this isn't a great surprise.

If the best we can do is a guy who became a conservative in the last couple years, the GOP is in a whole lotta trouble.

[Graymatter]

Time was, you could go through kindergarten and twelve years MORE schooling, and never hear any teacher mention sex at all.