Friday, July 29, 2005

Touch But Don't Look

Democrats are worried that teenagers are viewing porn. Their solution? A new tax. It is unclear quite how this will keep kids from accessing the sites, but that is not the point. Democrats want to be seen as concerned about child access to pornography (not to be confused with child pornography).

A week ago Hillary Clinton led the charge against Grand Theft Auto - an ultra violent game that, when some special codes are entered, also has an explicit sex scene. Again, th worry is that young teens will see some sex.

Reportedly this is the new strategy to fight the Republicans.

Too bad Democrats are so inconsistent. The same people who want to shield teens from seeing sex have no objections to them having sex.

Consider their objections to abstinence-based sex ed. They insist that the kids are/will have sex anyway so we must not tell them that this is bad.

What about abortion for teens? Democrats are all for this. No parental notification needed. I've always been a bit puzzled by this attitude. It's not like a girl can skip the abortion and hide the pregnancy (ok, it can happen but it is rare). They must be afraid that a these girls will not have an abortion. I've complained before about some people actually being for abortion in all cases.

Anyway, the Democrats are against teens viewing sex without their parents' permission but they insist that we assume the kids are having sex and that we make it easy to hide pregnancies.

I don't think that this is their magic bullet.

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