Gov. Patrick Pisses Off Abstinence Ed-Only Crowd
Some months ago Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts joined a growing chorus of state governments in refusing federal funds for abstinence education; a program which had been proved ineffective by the Bush administration’s own data. Now the National Abstinence Education Association, a coalition of religious right abstinence education advocates is, according to the Associated Press, “targeting” Governor Patrick with a $75,000 negative ad campaign to try to get him to change his mind.
This has come as a disappointment to the group that then-Governor Mitt Romney gave most of the federal grant money to.
A major — perhaps the major — beneficiary of the $700,000 federal abstinence grant was Healthy Futures, a project of A Woman’s Concern, a chain of Boston-area antiabortion crisis pregancy centers whose medical director Eric Keroak was appointed by President Bush to administer federal domestic family planning programs.
Turned out Keroack was a crackpot.
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After all the time that has passed since 911, things can get distorted and out of perspective. So on a day like this, 6 years to the day of the horrific attacks against the US, we need reminders. We should watch videos like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsF-RiMzGpk
It puts things into the proper perspective.
LYONSPOTTER
11 Sep 07 at 1:12 pm