Just Say "No!" - Heaven Forbid

We've done it! Once again, the US of A has come out on top. We have topped the charts on sexually-transmitted disease, with over 1 million cases of chlamydia reported last year.

Now there are some who would have you believe that it's a direct result of cutbacks in sex-education in the public schools. Then it would have to be, as there's never been any sex-education classes in parochial schools, and there certainly hasn't been a flood of public-school students defecting to Christian schools.

Then again, there's the other argument -- that cutbacks in public education spending has produced millions of teenagers that neither understand what it is nor can they spell it -- chlamydia, that is.

And gonorrhea; now that was popular in my day. But it got too popular, and too easy to get that shot of penicillin. Some more understanding physicians would even dispense the "weekender shot," as a just-in-case treatment plan. But then things began to change, and the usual dose had to be increased to a massive dose, as the disease began to morph into something that became increasingly difficult to treat. But through education, gonorrhea finally became almost rare in this country. Until recently. It too is now on the rise. And remember I mentioned how it was becoming more difficult to treat? We now have strains that defy the normal protocols of treatment.

And who of you out there remember Syphilis? Sure; just what I thought. You see, they used to teach us about Syphilis and Gonorrhea, in school. They taught us what they were, how you contract them, how to prevent them, and most importantly, how devastating they can be to those who contract them, and to those they transmit them to.

I wish we could know how many of our tax dollars were saved by bending to the influence of those crazy, Christian, right-wing whack-o's that help push this kind of stupid legislation through the system. We can only hope that the amount saved will cover the costs of disease: long treatment protocols for resistant strains; the congenitally scarred and deformed children of the misinformed; and the blind and/or demented casualties of a misguided policy

Of course, if it gets too expensive, they have a backup plan:

Just Say No!