Max Blumenthal’s “truth”
“Consider what is happening in Lubbock, Texas, where gonorrhea rates among young women have exploded to twice the national average despite–or because of–the fact that abstinence education is mandated in public schools. Or consider a recent congressional study of adolescent behavior, Add Health, revealing that white evangelical women lose their virginity on average at age sixteen, younger than any group besides black Protestants. These are the facts on the ground in Palin”
This is the son of the CREEP who told us Monica was a stalker and was lying about Clinton!
Max: ““Consider what is happening in Lubbock, Texas, where gonorrhea rates among young women have exploded to twice the national average despite–or because of–the fact that abstinence education is mandated in public schools.”
REALITY: “Although the 2008 rate of 111.6 diagnoses per 100,000 population is one of the lowest ever recorded, gonorrhea remains the second most commonly reported STD in the United States. Moreover, the rate of gonorrhea among African Americans was 20.2 times greater than among whites in 2008. American Indian/Alaska Natives and Hispanics are also disproportionately affected.”
Must be all that abstinence education to African Americans making that sky-high STD rate.
Oh, and Texas gonorrea rates have been declining also. This guy just invents crap.