Friday, September 12, 2008

Sarah Palin on sex-ed

I recently read an article by Lisa Demer from the Anchorage Daily News stating that John McCain’s mate had views on sex education that were rather “murky.” While Palin, according to the article, hasn't done anything to promote the “abstinence” message backed by social conservatives, her position on sex education isn’t clear. Back in 2006, in a series of questions from “Eagle Forum” an Alaskan conservative group she said that she didn’t support explicit sex-ed programs while she wasn’t a fan of “abstinence-only” plans.

So here we are, with a candidate who doesn’t really know how to tackle an important parental issue and whose own ambiguity on the matter did not prove to be too much help to her daughter Bristol…

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