In last nights CNN broadcast Cambell Brown, Jeffery Toobin, and others called the McCain campaign’s ad about Senator Obama’s support for a bill for ‘comprehensive sex education for kindergarteners’ a lie. One problem, they’re wrong. The text of the bill states,
"Each class or course in comprehensive sex education in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV."
They repeated the Obama campaign’s explanation that the bill was about ‘inappropriate touching’. Second problem, there is no reference to ‘inappropriate touching’ in the bill. Byron York of National Review researched this bill and provides and an explantion along with the text of the bill in his article On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain is Right. However, when this article was brought up during last night’s CNN broadcast it was dismissed.
CNN didn’t do their homework and they should appologize and retract their statement that the McCain campaign lied.
Contact CNN and demand a retraction.
Make CNN Retract
1 comment:
What about: "Course material and instruction shall teach pupils that it is wrong to take advantage of or to exploit another person."
This is clearly meant to instruct students about sexual exploitation which would include teaching them about sexual predators. And a previous clause clearly states that the instruction will be "age appropriate".
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