Holy Hypocrite of the Day: Gov. Tim Pawlenty
Maya calls Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty out on his blatant hypocrisy this week — apparently the governor has turned down a $850,000 federal grant for sex education in the name of “striving to find...
View ArticleLegislation introduced to end abstinence-only funding!
It’s an exciting time for anyone who thinks it’s important for young people to have access to information about sex and sexuality. Yesterday, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representative...
View ArticleDaddy I Do: Documentary on Purity Balls and Abstinence-Only Culture
Via Jessica, it looks like there is a newish documentary on Purity Balls and abstinence-only programs — and lawdy, does it look compelling. It’s been screened thus far at a number of film festivals,...
View ArticleAmplify Your Voice launches video series on abstinence-only programs
This is just so bad-ass, I can hardly contain my glee. The folks at Amplify Your Voice have taken it upon themselves to put together their own web video series using Xtranormal to expose the...
View ArticleGovernor Walker repeals equal pay, bans abortion coverage, mandates abstinence
Wisconsin Governor (R-surprise!) Scott Walker is a true Renaissance Man of Asshatery. He must be commended for his hard work, consistency and brazen bigotry in targeting not just workers‘ rights, not...
View ArticleChristian college fires employee for becoming pregnant & offers job to her...
A California woman was fired after her supervisor at a San Diego Christian college asked her if she was pregnant. The sin, so to speak, was not the pregnancy itself but the fact that Teri James, 29,...
View ArticleDaddy I Do: Documentary on Purity Balls and Abstinence-Only Culture
Via Jessica, it looks like there is a newish documentary on Purity Balls and abstinence-only programs — and lawdy, does it look compelling. It’s been screened thus far at a number of film festivals,...
View ArticleAmplify Your Voice launches video series on abstinence-only programs
This is just so bad-ass, I can hardly contain my glee. The folks at Amplify Your Voice have taken it upon themselves to put together their own web video series using Xtranormal to expose the...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: “What’s good for me is good for a lot of people.”
That’s how Stuart Spitzer, Texas state representative and virgin until marriage, justified his support for a proposal to redirect HIV prevention funding toward abstinence education. Texas would cut $3...
View ArticleAwesome professor live-tweets her kid’s abstinence sex education class
Alice Dreger, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics, recently sat in on her kid’s abstinence-based, fear-based sex education class. She live-tweeted her incensed reactions to the teachers’...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: Bill Nye schools anti-choicers on science
In a Big Think video entitled “Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies?” a visibly frustrated Bill Nye the Science Guy valiently tries to convince anti-choicers who insist that a...
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