You might think I am just trying to get attention with that headline, but unfortunately, it’s true.  Courtesy ABCNews comes this nugget of joy.  I know you’re shocked that such a thing would be said in a speech to none other than the evil Planned Parenthood.

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.”

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Speaking to a young woman who asked a question about sex education, Obama said, “You, as a peer, can have enormous power over your age cohort but you’ve got to have some support from the schools. You certainly should not have to be fighting each and every instance by providing accurate information outside of the classroom because inside the classroom the only thing that can be talked about is abstinence.”

Then, similar to any pro-abort politician, Obama trotted out the classic “I’m personally opposed” line.  Here’s the windup…

 ”Keep in mind: I honor and respect young people who choose to delay sexual activity,” Obama continued. “I’ve got two daughters, and I want them to understand that sex is not something casual. That’s something that we definitely want to communicate and should be part of any curriculum.

And the big “BUT:”

But we also know that when the statistics tell us that nearly half of 15 to 19 year olds are engaging in sexual activity, that for us to leave them in ignorance is potentially consigning them to illness, pregnancy, poverty, and in some cases, death.”

In other words, it’s our fault if they have sex and get sick/pregnant/etc.  Predictably, Obama’s campaign went into damage control mode, with a spokesperson “clarifying,:”

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,’ [emphasis added] 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.’”

What do you think about that “the way that we think about it” line?  Apparently we all think about sex in explicit, graphic, hardcore, wham-bam-thankya-ma’am terms, and Obama’s trying to show us the light – that sex can be thought of in some other way.  Who knew?  Surely, of course, that other way doesn’t involve the beauty and sacredness of the marriage act as a dual-purpose activity, that of unifying and procreating.

Could be that PP needs some more business…gotta teach the kids how to have sex earlier so that they can perform more abortions!  After all, the earlier you get started having sex, the more abortions you can receive…

The Obama camp also pointed out that there was an opt-out provision in the legislation he had supported, so parents could keep their kids from having their innocence violated at such a young age.  One last tidbit:

[the legislation] also envisioned teaching kindergarteners about “inappropriate touching,”

Is there any such thing as inappropriate touching when kids are being taught pre-puberty about how much fun one can have with such touching?

Good news:

Despite Obama’s support, the legislation was not enacted.

Another good reason to homeschool.  Government schools can take over for mommy and daddy so they don’t have to do a thing (and too many of them aren’t doing anything but allowing the government to take over for them.)

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