Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama
Oh, ABC, why do you have to be so misleading? OK, he did say it:
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is “age-appropriate,” is “the right thing to do.”
But it gives the false impression he’ll be handing out condoms to 5 year olds. What’s it actually mean?
When Obama’s campaign was asked by ABC News to explain what kind of sex education Obama considers “age appropriate” for kindergarteners, the Obama campaign pointed to an Oct. 6, 2004 story from the Daily Herald in which Obama had “moved to clarify” in his Senate campaign that he “does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten. . . The legislation in question was a state Senate measure last year that aimed to update Illinois’ sex education standards with ‘medically accurate’ information . . . ‘Nobody’s suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it,’ Obama said. ‘If they ask a teacher ‘where do babies come from,’ that providing information that the fact is that it’s not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that’s going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards.’”
Here’s the kicker:
In addition to local schools informing kindergarteners that babies do not come from the stork, the state legislation Obama supported in Illinois, which contained an “opt out” provision for parents, also envisioned teaching kindergarteners about “inappropriate touching,” according to Obama’s presidential campaign.
Well, I never.
Mitt Romney immediately let out a wail.
“How much sex education is age appropriate for a 5-year-old?” Romney asked rhetorically. “In my view, zero is the right amount.”
Problem is, Mitt Romney held this same position as governor of Massachusetts. You’d think that even GOP hatchetmen would feel uncomfortable attempting to get political mileage out of talking points from the Alan Keyes campaign.
Goon bbsrock adds: Honest information should be presented to children while in school, at an age-appropriate level. Something along the lines of “when a mommy and a daddy love each other, they make a baby” would be fine for a kindergartener. It’s time to stop thinking of sex as some disgusting act that children have to be shielded from, when they are going to get the information from other sources anyway.
