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U.N. recommends teaching 5-year-old about masturbation

Yet another reason the UN shouldn’t be allowed to tell us so much as the time of day: U.N. Report Advocates Teaching Masturbations to 5-Year-Olds.

The United Nations is recommending that children as young as five receive mandatory sexual education that would teach even pre-kindergarteners about masturbation and topics like gender violence.

The U.N.’s Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a 98-page report in June offering a universal lesson plan for kids ranging in age from 5-18, an
“informed approach to effective sex, relationships” and HIV education that they say is essential for “all young people.”

The U.N. insists the program is “age appropriate,” but critics say it’s exposing kids to sex far too early, and offers up abstract ideas — like “transphobia” — they might not even understand.

Ludicrous. Any idiot seriously advocating teaching a subject as complex as human sexuality to a child 5 years of age – an age where the kid cannot be expected to possess a set of rhetorical tools nor a sufficient grasp of language, let alone the heavier matters of morality – is unqualified to have a serious discussion with competent adults. And, frankly, I’d be suspicious of their motives and leaning heavily toward considering them a borderline pedophile. The moronic imbeciles responsible for that report should be fired and sent back to whatever country they came from.

If they’re Americans, let them stand forth and own up to this trash, if they think it’s such a good idea, so the rest of their countrymen can take their measure personally.

If this is the kind of recommendation that comes out of the United Nations, then I want no part of their recommendations on anything. Get lost, UN, all of you.

August 26th, 2009 Posted by ricjames | Human Interest, Politics | no comments

Senator Ted Kennedy dies at 77

Senator Ted Kennedy died at his home in Massachusetts after fighting brain cancer this past year. We was 77 years old. The family released a statement announcing his passing this morning. The President is actually nearby in Martha’s Vineyard:

President Obama, on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, said he and first lady Michelle were “heartbroken” to hear of Kennedy’s passing.

“An important chapter in our history has come to an end. Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States Senator of our time,” Obama said in a statement.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday both the Kennedy family and the Senate have “lost our patriarch.”

There is precious little, politically, that Senator Kennedy and I would find ourselves agreeing upon but there is no arguing he has seen some of the most powerful events in American history from a very front-row seat. I offer my prayers for him and for his family. May they be granted the strength to see this difficult time through.

August 26th, 2009 Posted by ricjames | History, Human Interest, Politics | no comments