No More teaching sex education or any kind of discussion Gay or Lesbian topics and forget any talk about contraceptives to the children of Utah. A new law passed Tuesday by the state senate that will allow schools to stop teaching any kind of sex ed.
"To replace the parent in the school setting, among people who we have no idea what their morals are, we have no ideas what their values are, yet we turn our children over to them to instruct them in the most sensitive sexual activities in their lives, I think is wrongheaded," The Salt Lake Tribune quoted Republican state Sen. Stuart Reid as saying.
That is a remarkable comment, considering those same teachers also instruct Utah's children on a myriad other subjects that are equally important to their lives, but neither is it surprising. From the state Supreme Court on down, Utah seems committed to maintaining moral control of its citizens and determining for them how they may live their lives.
One of the inevitable fallouts of this law is that Utah will remain one of the nation's leading states in terms of sex-related searches online, as young and old people alike take to the web to inform themselves of things their schools are prevented from even discussing.
But, like the national debate over contraceptives, the Utah sex education issue is being framed by state Republicans as about freedom, not of religion per se, but of the family, which they say has the sole responsibility for discussions of sex.
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