Sifting Through The Heap

GOP campaign platform squarely behind Abstinence-Education as family planning for teens.

However,

Abstinence-only education is based on the specious theory that teenagers shouldn’t be taught anything about sex because they shouldn’t be having sex. But promoting abstinence hasn’t worked in religious communities — a full 80 percent of evangelicals report having sex at least once before marriage — and won’t work in schools, either. The approach fails to take into account the fact that 70 percent of teenagers are sexually active by the time they turn 19, and sitting in a health class that pushes junk science won’t dissuade them otherwise. To achieve the goals the Republican Party puts forth, schools across the country need to implementcomprehensive sex education that will have honest conversations with young adults about sexuality. - Tara Culp Ressler, Think Progress

Willing to bet on how many of those platform writers composed this part based on successful personal experience with abstinence-only as teens? 

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It's hard to keep the choir singing pleasing songs when some of them only sing one verse

An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said “This is how we feed animals” before being removed from the convention, a network official confirmed to TPM.

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A capitalist whining about the government not doling out enough corporate welfare to his company.

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