State House democrats re-assert their "government knows best... even better then Parents" philosophy.

Yesterday, House democrats yet again showed their true socialist and social engineering colors by BANNING the teaching of "Abstinence-Only" sex education.

Now... what that means in the eyes of House liberals is that the teaching of that option is, well, no longer an option. What that means is that the concept of the authority of "local government" is a meaningless, trite little phrase that they only trot out when the issue just happens to mesh with their ultra-leftist agenda.

Micro-managing school district policy is bad policy. But these social engineers can't help themselves.

So much for freedom of speech. So much for parental concerns. So much for local government.

And the irony is that, if a Republican House had BANNED the teaching of anything BUT "'Abstinence-Only' sex education," these same ultra leftists would have done a high-speed come-apart.

There's a descriptive term for that: hypocrite.

from the Longview Daily News:

House OKs bill banning abstinence-only sex ed

By Associated Press

Mar 04, 2005 - 11:52:02 pm PST

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to sex, state representatives said Friday.

The House passed a bill that would prevent high schools from offering abstinence-only sex education, such as the program that is taught in the Kelso School District. Instead, schools' sex ed classes would have to include information on both abstinence and contraception.

"We want our children to abstain, but if they don't, I want them to have a safety net," said Rep. Shay Schual-Berke, D-Normandy Park, who sponsored the bill.

Washington schools aren't required to teach sex ed. In response to reports that some students were getting inaccurate information from some sex ed classes -- for example, some were told condoms are rarely effective -- the state Health Department and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction recently created voluntary guidelines for medically accurate sex education. The House bill makes those guidelines mandatory, though schools still can choose whether to teach about sex at all.

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