I think that the most interesting fallacy about the “abstinance only” sex education movement is that it’s based on the idea that the cause of sex is teaching kids about sex, and if they were never taught, they’d never know about it, and there’d be no teenage sex.

It’s certainly a tradeoff he’s decided to make. Not that I was highly likely to vote for him…but he’s traded away my vote, that’s for sure.

That same article has McCain supporting “abstinance only” sex education. Perhaps you are familiar with it: the educational program built around the idea that it isn’t necessary to teach children about human reproduction as long as we just tell them not to have sex. Because, of course, you can easily stop young people from having sex by simply telling them not to have sex.

In any event, McCain made a BIG mistake politically with his anti-Roe coments. He has alienated a large portion of his base in hopes of gaining votes from amoung the “Christian” right. The problem is that it won’t work, as it is highly unlikely that the christian right will ever trust him (see http://www.nrlc.org/news/1999/NRL999/mccain.html) Now, the mainstream won’t trust him either.