I laugh every time I hear someone try to claim that the Bush administration and Republicans, in general, want a smaller government. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Yes, they want a smaller government when it comes to issues like social security, public education, health care, and poverty (I wonder why?). But when it comes to the issue of sex, for example, the so-called "small government" Republicans seem to be on Viagra, always swelling into "big government" patriarchs. As it relates to one of the most crucial of individual liberties, the right to have sex with whomever we choose, however we choose, the 'Party of the Sex Fearing' want the rest of us to entertain their own sexual fears and hang-ups.

Did you know that in 2004 alone, the Bush administration allocated $270 million dollars to "abstinence only" sex education groups? In other words, George W. Bush allocated money that could have otherwise gone to pay for, say, a certain levee system in New Orleans, but chose to spend it on government programs relating to how we, the citizens of the United States, have sex!

In fact, since Bush has taken office, we are spending over $100 million each year on "abstinence-only" programs which teach our children things like this:

THERE IS NO WAY TO HAVE PREMARITAL SEX WITHOUT HURTING SOMEONE. (Sex Respect, Student Workbook, p.35)

There is no such thing as 'safe' or 'safer' premarital sex. (FACTS, Middle School, Teacher's Guide, p. 9.)

The liberation movement has produced some aggressive girls today, and one of the tough challenges for guys who say no will be the questioning of their manliness. (Sex Respect, Student Workbook, p. 85.)

There are more examples at NoNewMoney.Org. Oh, it gets worse. Not only is Bush mandating our sex life, he is attempting to do it overseas too.

In 2002, the Bush administration undermined an international drive to provide teenage sexual education because of his own belief in chastity. In fact, Bush refused to sign a United Nations declaration on children's rights which was designed to set funding priorities across the Third World unless pledges on sexual health services were scrapped altogether. So much for the notion that 'Sexual Rights are Human Rights'.

In its intransigent opposition to any acknowledgment of condom use as a way to fight AIDS and adolescent pregnancy, the United States was also joined by such beacons of enlightenment as Sudan, Libya, Syria and the Vatican. Arrayed against the US-led obstructionist effort was an overwhelming majority of the 180 delegations and sixty world leaders participating in the conference, including not only nearly all the Western democracies but the largely Catholic countries of Central and South America. (The Nation)

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