STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) can be killers. They can blind you, make you impotent, or cause serious harm internally, and of course, THEY CAN KILL.

Lack of concise information, OF EDUCATION, is needed and it has to begin at an early enough age to have an impact. This dribble of teaching about Abstinence, of saving one’s self is nice, in theory, but in Practice it really had no visible impact on teenage sex. It doesn’t curtail it, and it certainly doesn’t lessen it, but what it does do is give a false sense of security, of invincibility that leads to serious health risks.

In Pennsylvania, one district, there is an unbelievable rate of infections, but what is scary about the story, is that on a national basis, the rates aren’t declining. That after EIGHT YEARS OF BUSHISM, the health of the young has gotten worse. This is from a lack of EDUCATION.

It’s estimated that 10 percent of the 3,000 middle and high school students in the Delaware Valley School District in Milford, P.A., are infected with an STD — including one confirmed case of HIV, Times Herald Record reported Friday. (source – Fox News)

It really is confusing. I mean there is outrage over the Supreme Court Ruling that Child Reapists can’t be Executed, and yet these same people are allowing their children to become infected with life threatening illness, because somehow sex is dirty, and not to be discussed.

It really makes no sense.

California already offers same-sex couples who register as domestic partners the same legal rights and responsibilities as married spouses, including the right to divorce and sue for child support.

But in the justices’ recent 4-3 decision, they stated that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. (source – CBC News)

While some in the GLBT community thought it better to seek something called Civil Union, Domestic Partnership or some other catch phrase, I have maintained that anything less puts whatever rights given to those ‘new agreements’ at risk. At any time, a legislature could alter or remove those rights, without flinching, because after all, it would only apply to the Queers. So why would mainstream America give a damn?

The California Supreme Court seems to agree.

It was the same argument the racists used against granting equality to people of color back in the Sixties, which is why it is important to fight segregation at all times. Separate but Equal does not exist.