Of Bibles and Condoms

Of Bibles and Condoms

The Bible versus the condom. Pick just one.

One of those two is not like the other, one of those two is not the same. Indeed, both of those two are not like the other.

One, the Bible, ist verboten in Florida’s Collier County School District–and, no doubt in many other public school districts in America–and the other, the condom, in the Provincetown, Massachusetts–and in many other mostly inner city schools–was offered as a free treat to students.

P-Town’s innovation, as discussed here in ”Of Condoms, Teens, and Porn Part One,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1756, was to make condoms available to one and all, including elementary school kids. National shock and derision forced the school fathers in Provincetown to re-think that one.

In any event, the proposal has been shelved, for now. It could still become policy if P-Town can determine a way to get into the free-condoms-for-elementary-students business without nationwide scrutiny.

Consider the thought processes that inspired the idea. Someone or a number of someones in P-Town must have figured that so many fourth, fifth, and sixth graders were “doing it” that it was incumbent upon their school system to make prophylactics available to everyone.

Now, take Collier County: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1770)