Reclaiming our Puritan roots

This is outrageous (hat tip to Brian at Plunderbund). From the Washington Post: Abstinence message goes beyond teens

The federal government's "no sex without marriage" message isn't just for kids anymore.

Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.

Of course I've got nothing against abstinence--I think it can be a positive choice and no one should ever be ridiculed for deciding to wait until marriage. What disgusts me is that this has nothing to do with public health but is about pushing one group's ideology as Jason Wagoner noted in the article. There are *so* many causes that could benefit from "millions of dollars of federal money", but this is where our current government's "values" are.

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