well fvck- how about the damn gov't stays out of our sex lives altogether?

Because a populace filled with uneducated twits who spread disease and unwanted children becomes your problem and my problem.

There is that personal responsiblity issue again-

Nope, not about personal responsibility. It's about real-life effects. An overpopulated, diseased populace results in a dying society. And if a small amount of honest education can preven that, then that's exactly what a government is for. We're not talking about forcing action. No one is forcing children to have sex or not have sex (well, I'm sure Bush would love to do the second). We're talking nothing more than information, but of course information is enemy number one these days, isn't it?

No- that's a fairly ridiculous statement in this day and age actually.

Of course it is about personal responsibility- if people would be responsible for themselves those would be dwindling issues.

Uh...The government is already educating kids. Why should sex be excluded from that? Heaven forbid that kids pick up information that might actually benefit them in their real lives at school.

Using the personal responsibility argument, one could easily say that kids shouldn't be educated about money management in school. It isn't the governments business how people spend their money. Where are their parents?!

Because I do not think the gov't should be teaching kids about sex, abstinence, birth control- or anything that smacks of morality about those issues.

Because it's my opinion.

Then I guess we can go ahead and remove all civics lessons from schools as well.

Reliance on personal responsibility has to end where failure of personal responsibility has real, negative effects on other people.

you know there is a level of personal responsibility here. you cant just blame it on something else. you make choices everyday you cant tell me some of those arent your responsibilities. it is the same thing here.

Right. So, why are drugs illegal? It's a choice to use them. Alcohol is legal. Why do we outlaw anything?