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Bruce Monkhouse said:Well I'm "politically right" and i don't want to see it removed. You got any proof/ links to this, ..whats that thing again??...oh yea, hidden agenda? :
I've spent two hours looking for proof of my statement that th religious right would be happy to remove sex education. I can not find any credable proof to back that up. Just speeches from churches, no politicion on the right that I can find has touched this issue, but they do seem to deal with the matter once in office. I base my statement on conversations that I've had with the political right grass roots (Yes I am from Alberta and know many) and the sermons I've heard in churches. (Yes I go there too) And the actions of the political right in our neighbouring country - which do influence the political right in this country.
August 29/September 5, 2005, issue of The Nation " money from the Federal Government used to create high school abstinence clubs was being used to train "young abstinence advocates", who were being encouraged to engage in politics and support right-wing issues like overturning abortion. The article states that although the program's official language has been secularized, a list of its grant recipients "reads like a who's who list of the religious right.""
http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20041201102153-50247.pdf <--interesting read on Right wing sex education.
This isn't the smoking gun that I wanted, but I don't think that I'm being tendentious when I say that the religious right want to remove sexual education as we know it and replace it with information that would lead people into behaviours they find more acceptable.