Abstinence speaker tells kids 'condoms cause cancer'

[Dinner]

Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Abstinence speaker pushed religion in school, dad charges
By GAIL SCHONTZLER, Chronicle Staff Writer
Bozeman,Montana

An irate father is demanding that Bozeman High School present students with a rebuttal to what he called "extremely biased religious dogma" delivered by an assembly speaker who warned teens against the dangers of drugs, drinking and premarital sex.

Tom Wells, a Bozeman attorney and father of a ninth-grader, told the School Board on Monday night that he was appalled by the "thinly veiled ministry" and "misinformation" presented the week before by speaker Tina Marie Holewinski.

Holewinski, 27, of Hollywood, Calif., a full-time speaker with an organization called True Lies, defended her talk Tuesday as full of "hard-core facts" that could save teenagers' lives.

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Wells demanded the school give equal time to rebut the "misinformation" his son heard: that condoms lead to cancer, that birth control pills are only 20 percent effective, that sexually transmitted diseases are spread by skin contact alone, that third-trimester fetuses can be aborted, that video games lead to homicide, that human papilloma virus can be transferred through condoms and that teens can achieve "second virginity" through abstinence.

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http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2005/05/11/news/abstinenceflap.txt

This is the type of crap that drives me up the wall. Unable to make a real case for their "abstence only education" Christian fundimentalists lie, lie, lie to teens in order to scare them into doing as they're told. Studies have shown the kids go out and have sex any way at the same rate but now they don't know a thing about safe sex, stopping pregnancy, or preventing diseases. If there is a hell then people who tell these lies should burn in it.

[Winston]

Re: condoms cause cancer



One less thing for most OT'ers to worry about.

[chequita guevara]

I wonder if you could sue a school for lying to your kids.

[Japher]

lets see... cancer is something that grows on you, eats at you life and your soul, draining you off all that you are worth until the day you die...

last time I didn't use a condom wifey got pregers...

kids are cancer

[Bosh]

"second virginity"

What the ****?

[Spiffor]

Wells demanded the school give equal time to rebut the "misinformation" his son heard: that condoms lead to cancer, that birth control pills are only 20 percent effective, that sexually transmitted diseases are spread by skin contact alone, that third-trimester fetuses can be aborted, that video games lead to homicide, that human papilloma virus can be transferred through condoms and that teens can achieve "second virginity" through abstinence.

Wow

I wasn't aware that schools were supposed to teach lies in a democratic country.

[Bereta_Eder]

i remember the sexual education lesson and the demonstration on how to use the condom... half of the class was giggleing (and wouldnt need that info for a loooong time ) and the other half was yawning

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Bosh



What the ****?

That's a popular term among the crazed but saved types. They try to scare teens who've had sex into not having sex then they extract abstence pledges and declare the teens are once again virgins. These people are just nuts.

[BeBMan]

Of course they might cause cancer....if he tried to eat them....

[Ming]

Holewinski, 27, of Hollywood, Calif., a full-time speaker with an organization called True Lies

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the name of her organization yet... One could say "truth in advertising", because she is telling A BUNCH OF THEM

[ixnay]

Ooooh boy, I live right by this high school.

I'll keep my eye on what happens from this. Should be interesting.

[Agathon]

And people think that it is somehow wrong to suppress speech.

[alva]

[Agathon]

What do you do in a society when the vast majority of what passes as public discourse is BS.

A guy (one of us actually) just wrote a book about this. He was on 60 Minutes last night.

[Elok]

Er, I thought third-trimester fetuses could in fact be aborted in the US, as RvW theoretically forbids 3T abortions but gives the mother the option of aborting at any time for her health, including her "mental health." Not trying to threadjack, but that one snippet of hers in fact appears to be accurate. The rest, of course, is patently nonsense...