Bush And His (Pushing, Thrusting, Moaning...Sick) Faith
The Boston Globe has published an article detailing Democrat initiated investigations that will look into Bush’s failed Faith-Based Initiative.
WASHINGTON -- Two leading Democrats on the House International Relations Committee said they want to investigate President Bush's faith-based initiative to determine whether taxpayer funds are being used to reward Bush's Christian conservative supporters and whether the faith-based groups are using the funds to help gain converts.In addition, Democrats on the panel said they could be in a strong position to try to overturn a measure that requires one-third of AIDS prevention money overseas to be spent on "abstinence-until-marriage" programs.
The $1 billion abstinence measure was passed by the Republican-led Congress and signed by Bush, but many Democrats have complained that the money could be better spent on other measures such as condoms. Many of the religious groups receiving funds under Bush's faith-based initiative have received money as a result of the abstinence-until-marriage program.
If anything comes out of these proposed investigations, I would hope that it would be this horrible failure of a measure - which may actually help contribute to the spread of AIDS - being overturned.
Sexual development 101 teaches us that abstinence-only education is ineffective. The best method is a comprehensive method that explains all options, including condoms… you know, reality. It is highly immoral for this administration to award a failed method - a method that helps spread AIDS throughout the world - and something that all people should be outraged about. People need to take a step back and look at what the real issue is here. Is it the goal of our government to persuade people to live lives that coincide with their random morals, or is the goal to stop the spread of an epidemic?
The answer is quite obvious to me, but there are those who feel that the real goal should be to spread their religious doctrine throughout the world, no matter the casualties it may bring.
As much as it kills the Christian extremists, I fully believe that the Democrats’ new power will restore an inkling of common sense back to our government, which is quite a huge victory for all of us that were blessed with common sense to begin with.
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4 comments:
Restoration of common sense...it's such a little thing but the US has been run by people with little to no common sense!
One thing the new congress will not do is pass a law making ignorance a crime. Then the majority would be out of a job.
As far as the abortion views that this county has. Let the republicans keep bearing children and the liberals and democrats keep aborting. In due time the will have aborted the whole party.
In order to pass something on to your children you have to have them first. Oh but your common sense does not look at it that way does it. So who is looking out for the future? What does common sense tell you?
You are right Sally, I think the Bush administration and the rubber-stamp Congress, has really defined idiocy as we know it.
Found you on blogmad, great blog keep up the work.
Sally, common sense is fully needed. I'm not totally sure that Democrats will always act with common sense, but at least now, there's more checks and balances to keep these loopy things from happening.
Anonymous, really, this post had nothing to do with abortion (that was a post done). And, the last post really didn't have anything to do with abortion, either. It had to do with a do-nothing Congress doing absolutely nothing... and the fact that Republicans actually believe they can make declarations of science.
As for the truism that liberals and Democrats abort more babies than Republicans, why don't you check the facts and get back to me.
Thanks Floyd.
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