Should sex education be required for Texas Republicans?

I mean really. First we have Texas Republican Congressman Burgess (an ex ob-gyn) who claims that fifteen week old fetus can masturbate (reported in the Congressional Record). Then we have Texas Republican State Senator Laubenberg claiming that rape victims can not get pregnant since the rape kit "cleans them out". These are the individuals making laws in this country?

According to Texas Congressman Gohmert, sex education classes are Soviet police state style education.

In his podcast interview with WallBuilders Live, Gohmert called sex-ed unnecessary because "mankind has existed for a pretty long time without anyone ever having to give a sex-ed lesson to anybody." We should let kids "be innocent," and if anyone does have a birds-and-bees talk with them, it should be their parents. Then came the USSR jab:

"And it reminds me so much of the summer that I was an exchange student in the Soviet Union back in the '70s, and I was shocked when they were saying, 'No, the children don't belong to parents, they belong to the state.' And if any parent said anything in front of their children negative about the wonderful Soviet Union, then we will take their children away and give them to somebody more deserving. ... And now I've seen this coming with a lady from MSNBC saying, 'Hey, children belong to the state.'"

In general, NEVER going to happen, this nation has puritan roots and they extend DEEP into the ground.....bloody,beaten bodies and
murder,mayhem are benign....BUT SEX??????......taboo....JMO

I think sex education should be taught to everyone.

Science Chic wrote: Sex education should be required for everyone, and not just the mamby pamby, politically correct, sterilized version of sex ed, but real life stats of consequences as a result of each type of action, and what really happens to men and women's bodies through puberty, childbirth, etc.

How about some economics education, everyone uses economics, not everyone has sex and babies. When people don't understand economics, the consequences seem to be much larger than sex education. Plus, do you really think that most of those reps don't know where babies come from or how they are made? What you want is brainwashing to make all these folks be ok with any type of abortion. The trick to that is take away their authority, so that no matter what they think, it does not have a bearing on your life because they are not in charge of it.

Plus, who decides what sex education is right? Now we can debate this to no end and spend all kind of attention and money poorly.

This just opens up a can of worms and I think we are better off allowing people to be uneducated and especially to let people determine what level of sex education they need in their representatives through the vote.

If the people of Texas are really concerned about the sex education level of their reps, this can come up in the election process. Somehow I don't think that Texans are looking for a fine group of Coloradans to determine this for them.

For example, can anyone provide links to Obama's understanding of how sex works?

This just does not matter that much.

My guess is that in 100 years, abortion will be so illegal, this debate will seem rather silly and I personally would retain this right for any woman or similar being...you just can only justify killing to make your life better so far, eventually the argument is going to fall apart legally.

Something the Dog Said wrote: I mean really. First we have Texas Republican Congressman Burgess (an ex ob-gyn) who claims that fifteen week old fetus can masturbate (reported in the Congressional Record). Then we have Texas Republican State Senator Laubenberg claiming that rape victims can not get pregnant since the rape kit "cleans them out". These are the individuals making laws in this country?

Since, in Texas politics, ignorance seems to be a virtue, it will never happen...

Walter L Newton wrote: I think sex education should be taught to everyone.

In what format, what type of education, how will you make people do it and what types of sex are ok?

Most of us are pretty busy, don't have much time for the next thing you want to force out of us, to busy working to pay for the last thing everyone wanted from us.

Plus, how to you enforce this? and do we really want a national standard on sex education or style? The next thing you know we will debating who can marry who...oopps.

I just feel your comment is a bit broad and that most parents or associates do in fact teach other about sex and many kids figure out how to have it even with little input. Sex is natural and instinct driven. I am just not sure that the states have any major sexual secrets that everyone needs to know in order to have better sex.

We could have classes on how to grow hair and fingernails too as part of the same nationalist program.

And if you are implying that sex education is telling kids that sex could lead to having more kids, we certainly don' need classes for that. I bet more people know that sex leads to birth than know who the president is. Plus we can just keep reminding them.

Walter L Newton wrote: I think sex education should be taught to everyone.

How much geometry did you retain?
Then again, I am more interested in sex than angles.

FredHayek wrote:

Walter L Newton wrote: I think sex education should be taught to everyone.

How much geometry did you retain?
Then again, I am more interested in sex than angles.

OMG, sex is full of angles...before, during and after.

Plus the guy that taught you about angles, probably understood them.....

....what sort of qualifications does one need to teach others about sex?

Do you have to be an MD or a nurse or we going to make the assumption that any jr high teacher understands this stuff and agrees with the family values of all the students?

Can someone educated point out the top 5 things that are missing in sex education (for kids or congressmen), so that we are not just painting this broad brush? Does sex education include how to have sex, how to have babies, will it show people what types of sex are not ok and tell kids when it is morally ok to have an abortion? What is sex education?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education