From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Sex ed in school
Organization: The World
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:27:42 GMT


From: murph@buscard.fidonet.org (Brian Murphy)
>Is there something wrong with my statement?  Do you think it's a good idea to
>be having babies you can't care for?

I'm sorry, but what exactly is your definition and test for a parent
who cannot care for their baby?

Murphy tenderly turns to his wife and says: Hey hon, maybe it's not
the best time, but if we wait for the best time, well, maybe it never
comes, we'll make it work together, let's give it our best shot...

*BZZZT*...Sorry! The Murph police break down the door and forcibly
vasectomize Murphy on the floor of his bedroom. Clearly he's a
dunderheaded optimist and cannot pass the very simple Murph-O-Test
(TM), Successful Procreation Section (All Rights Reserved):

Just answer these easy questions and you too can be a proud
state-approved parent!

	1. Can you guarantee the financial security of the
	child you are about to conceive until s/he (check one)
	reaches majority? Please provide details, a year by year
	business plan will suffice, be specific.

	2. Do you guarantee to the state that you will not, over
	the course of the next 18-24 years, perform any of the following
	irresponsible actions (check all that may apply):

		A) Die?

		B) Divorce?

		C) Become disabled?

		D) Be the victim of war, disease, or other
		calamities?

		E) Ever be out of work or otherwise suffer
		an income loss which may affect your standing
		in America's Great Middle Class (TM)?

Fill out form in triplicate, sign and return to the Department of
Procreation for review and approval. Failure to abide by statements
made in this form can result in severe penalties, including (but not
limited to) sterilization, removal of offspring as wards of the state
(including incurring payback burden), dissolution of citizenship and
humiliation on USENET.

>As the
>old saw goes: "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself."

Strange comment on sexual practices, kinda like ``when it comes to sex
I take matters into my own hand''.

I wonder if this guy ever reflects on his own comments?

>You see, we're talking about sex education in school and I contend that sex
>should be taught at home to save the taxpayer money and to make sure that your
>brand of sexuality is not taught to my kids and my brand not to yours.

And if it's NOT taught at home...?

That's the problem, your comments fall flat, you rave platitudes but
actually haven't any answers other than the old ``if people were only
like *THIS* life would be grand''.

No thanks, we've heard enough of those empty platitudes from the
communists and nazis and other fanatics of this world. People AIN'T
like THIS, and the rest of us are here to deal with how they ARE, not
how we might imagine them to be.

O ye of moral decrepitude may now take a back seat and let the adults
here deal with the problems of this world.

In the end that's fundamental to this "battle" between so-called
liberal views and so-called conservative views: One side tends to look
at people for what they often are, they get sick, they do dumb things,
they make life happen. The other side seems to always be complaining
about how people OUGHT to be to make their life simple, be wealthy,
never get sicker than you can afford to be, stop being a pain in the
ass.

The so-called conservative view is really quite breath-taking in its
total lack of self-esteem and self-worth. People are just so much
dog-food in their twisted world, nuisances to be discarded at the
slightest provocations.

>You don't seem to like to hear me suggest that sex before marriage is a bad
>idea.

Why? It's always worked for me!

>You don't think a compromise on our positions can be reached by simply keeping
>sex ed out of school and in the home?  If not, why is it a bad idea to pray in
>school?

There is nothing wrong with praying in school.

Forcing others to pray is a different matter entirely, mein fuhrer.


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        -Barry Shein

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