I'm not saying that they can't teach abstinence, but an abstinence only education is just plain ludicrous. Not to mention you are painting everything as black and white.
Why is smoking inherently bad? IT has disadvantages, but that doesn't make it inherently bad.
In some cases, divorce is a good thing. If your husband is cheating on you, abusing you, and violent with you, then divorce is a great thing.
If you are in a relationship where you no longer love each other and you don't have any children who will be affected by the divorce, why stay together? I think it is more dishonest with yourself to not acknowledge your feelings in those circumstances.
I really don't even see where you are going with your argument as we essentially agree that both sides are worth presenting. But you are mischaracterizing the debate. I haven't seen any sex education programs that teach about birth control that don't also talk about abstinence. The opposite is incredibly common, where they teach about abstinence and don't talk about using protection.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
