Mock And Roll
That would be mock weddings and a roll of cash to throw them with, in the name of AIDS prevention. Just, whatever you do, don't say "condom." No..Shhhhhhh! Mock-wedding tossing AIDS "educator" Phillippia Faust is just one of many do-badders on the AIDS misinformation hall of shame list, but she's making it pay handsomely:
Got a lame, one-dimensional abstinence-only message for America's adolescents, ages 12 through 18? Get a grant! That's what Phillippia Faust, a nurse at Georgia's Rockdale County Medical Center, did last year. Faust was awarded a federal grant of $177,809 a year for three years (that's $533,427, or half a million dollars) to create an abstinence-only program. Now she no longer has to carry a poster from classroom to classroom -- Sex Outside of Marriage is ... Not needed. Not normal. Not expected! -- as she did in the past. Now, Faust can afford a staff, supplies and a real curriculum. "We do discuss teen pregnancy and STDs," says Faust. "But abstinence is all about strengthening the family. Abstinence upholds the family as the basic unit of society and recognizes marriage as the framework for the family, which equates childbearing within the context of family. Abstinence identifies marriage as the only acceptable and legitimate place for the sexual experience and that avoidance from premarital sexual activity, including but not limited to sexual intercourse, is the expectant standard for the unmarried." It's entirely possible that Phillippia Faust is a really nice person, but she sure does sound like an insufferable, proselytizing control freak with an astonishingly narrow and oppressive view of human sexuality. How does she stop teens from engaging in premarital sexual activity? By staging mock weddings -- complete with props, scenery, bridal attire and graphic slide show presentations of the ghastly things sexually transmitted diseases can do to your body. After two mock weddings last May, Faust told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "I just wanted kids to have a grand visual of what their day-to-day decisions can lead to for their families, with an image of two beds -- the bed of poor choices and the bed of 'we made good choices by waiting.'" Those are your tax dollars at work ... and a half a million bucks can buy a lot of mock weddings.
If this weren't so damaging it would actually be funny.







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Gregg Sutter at February 5, 2005 8:44 PM
test style
Gregg Sutter at February 5, 2005 8:48 PM
downgrade final
Gregg Sutter at February 5, 2005 10:58 PM
downgrade 500
Gregg Sutter at February 5, 2005 10:59 PM
BL out
Gregg Sutter at February 5, 2005 11:41 PM
repeat
Gregg Sutter at February 5, 2005 11:41 PM
mt-close
Gregg Sutter at February 6, 2005 12:38 AM
Test. 1. 2. Test.
OK, seems to be working.
I live in Atlanta and I'm learning that, though I don't know any of these people personally, the powers that be in this state are f-r-e-a-k-s.
It's amazing how many worlds can exist in one place.
EC
Chris Wilson at February 6, 2005 6:59 AM
is it possible to just get the money, say you're promoting abstinence, and take a world cruise instead? probably be better off for all.
david at February 6, 2005 8:31 PM
What the hell IS this abstinence crap? Did you wait? Did I? Did George W. Bush? Did ANYBODY? Then why do we all of a sudden expect all the world's unmarrieds--and that means no more nookie for half the posters here--to keep it in? Soooo Taliban . . .
rebecca at February 9, 2005 2:11 AM
family boy - parenting articles.
family at February 11, 2005 1:49 PM
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