Many in the Republican party form their opions based on faith rather than on facts. In order to maintain that faith (such as global warming is a myth), it is often necessary to hide or bury the facts. Witness the following report from the Seattle Intelligencer - read more here...
The Republicans in the state Senate must have been shocked! shocked! at the idea of telling school districts that sex education must be medically and scientifically accurate. But their little oooh-we're-so-outraged show of walking out certainly was fitting.
Walking away from the facts contributes to this country having one of the Western world's worst teen-pregnancy rates. Ignorance can and does hurt numerous teens, their families and the children they may create.
Most Republican senators walked out Wednesday after casting a no vote on SB 5297 (except, Cheryl Pflug of Maple Valley and Bellingham's Dale Brandland, who supported the bill and perhaps learned something about calmly facing facts when he was a sheriff). If not screamingly hypocritical posturing, the walkout was at least an overblown reaction to a bill, passed 30-19, that simply requires sound information if a district chooses to provide sex education beyond required HIV health education.
This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
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