Your education "violates my rights!"
November 28, 2014 8:04 PM   Subscribe

The school board of Gilbert, AZ (a Phoenix suburb) has voted to remove two pages on contraception, STDs, and the morning-after-pill from their sex education textbook, because they believe them to violate a two-year-old state law. The law, SB 1009, requires education curricula to prioritize childbirth and adoption over abortion.
Ms. Smith, the school board member and parent, said she had been driving her family home from church back in January when her son told her about what was in the textbook. "I almost drove off the road," she said.

"I'm Catholic; we do not contracept," Ms. Smith said. "It is a grave sin." By including those pages in the curriculum, she added, "you have violated my religious rights."
(Almost SLNYT.)
posted by jferg (4 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry this seems like outrageous dumb thing that happened -- mathowie



 
Christ, what an asshole.
posted by wabbittwax at 8:05 PM on November 28, 2014 [4 favorites]


You have the right to practice your religion as you wish, you silly person, but you do not have the right to impose its dictates on others.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 8:06 PM on November 28, 2014 [1 favorite]


The textbook “speaks about abortion, it touches on childbirth, but there’s not a mention of adoption,” said Christine Accurso, a mother of three who moved her children out of the school district well before the issue arose but got involved nevertheless.

Because it's not enough to prevent her kids from hearing things she doesn't like. She has to keep everybody else's kids from hearing things she doesn't like.
posted by immlass at 8:09 PM on November 28, 2014


Thank god I got the hell out of Arizona when I was six.
posted by birdherder at 8:16 PM on November 28, 2014


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