Sex ed, Bush Style - Just say no to the truth

So the government has launched an abstinence only website that is raising hackles among the reality-based crowd.

Government Web Site Telling Parents to Promote Teen Abstinence Draws Protest

An array of advocacy groups are calling on the federal government to take down one of its new Web sites, saying it presents biased and inaccurate advice to parents on how to talk to their children about sex.

Those hackles are raised for good reason. Abstinence only education raises the incidence of STDs and unwanted pregnancies. That's generally considered a bad thing. Minnesota's experiment with it failed miserably. It should also be common knowledge that in Bush's sex fantasy "Values trumps data."

It's nothing new, granted, but it is especially creepy. It means that you can't really trust information from the US Department of Health and Human Services. They have too strong of an agenda and have too clear of a history of removing, revising or just plain making up facts to fit their ideological agenda. That's a particularly hard burden for parents to bear these days, at least for parents that want to teach their kids to think.