Liberal 5

The topic of sex education and AIDS is a little controversial to say the least. Surprisingly, President Clinton’s AIDS Policy Coordinator Kristene Gebbe said, “Many people need to change their behavior because it is spreading the disease. They’re making bad choices everyday. That means blunt talks with people of all ages. That’s been hard for our society to deal with. We need more blunt conversations, no matter how uncomfortable.”

Yet, few liberals admit that AIDS is a direct result of a philosophy which condones and promotes a lifestyle that includes promiscuity for both homosexuals and heterosexuals. Liberalism’s answer to prevention is distributing condoms in N.Y.C. high schools at taxpayers expense, in the middle of a recession. Former Mayor Dinkins said he may layoff teachers due to the recession. Yet the N.Y.C. Board of Ed. has money to distribute condoms in high schools. Instead of teaching kids to say NO they are teaching them to KNOW how to have “SAFE SEX.”

They say that using a condom is “SAFE SEX.” What guarantee is there that kids will use them? Condoms have been available for years and kids have not. The Food and Drug Administration does not even consider condoms a birth control device due to their ineffectiveness. Who would knowingly have sex with a person who has AIDS, even if they were wearing a condom? We cannot always visually tell if a person has AIDS, leaving abstinence as the only sure way of not contracting it through sexual intercourse.

Some Liberals favor distributing condoms in high school because kids are going to have sex anyway. Some say things such as, “Kids are going to have sex whether or not condoms are distributed in high schools because they’re too embarrased to buy them. My teenage daughter is too embarrased to buy Kotex, but that doesn’t stop her from menstrating.” (Michelle Schlien) I wonder what would happen if some of these kids get pregnant, or contract AIDS? In the era of frivolous lawsuits they can sue N.Y.C., its Board of Education, the former Chancellor Joe Fernandez and the manufacturer for knowingly distributing a defective and unsafe item to minors. A lawyer can say, “the failure rate of condoms is 14.2 %” (1992 American Medical Association report). Yet despite this potential major lawsuit former Chancellor Fernandez still distributed condoms in high schools. Former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders supports the idea and in an interview said, “We don’t need to give kids a ‘plumbing lesson’ they already know that.” The reason they know so much is “the media constantly bombards kids with the message that casual sex is o.k.” (Donna )