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www.alternet.org 7-11-08 A Sexual Rights Agenda *Posted by Marty Klein, Sexual Intelligence<http://sexualintelligence.wordpress.com/> * Dear President Obama: For months, I've been predicting that when you win, nothing will change regarding sex. I've said you won't stop the government's War On Sex; you won't demand respect for sexual rights as human rights; you won't prevent religious fanatics from controlling non-believers' sex lives. You now have your big chance: prove me wrong. Here's what you need to do: * End funding for abstinence-only training in public schools. * End the Department of Justice's war on adult entertainment. Keep the war on child porn. Make it clear they're two different things. * Decriminalize all consensual sex that teens have with other teens. Decriminalize teens sharing photos of themselves having sex. * Increase financial support for Planned Parenthood, an investment proven to reduce poverty and domestic violence. * Take the moral leadership to decrease abortion -- by funding contraception services and comprehensive sex education, not by criminalizing abortion. * Require all sex education programs to be scientifically accurate. Isn't that required by the policies of car manufacturers, meat-packing plants, and toothpaste makers? * Require all municipalities that want to restrict commercial sexual expression (strip clubs, adult bookstores, swing clubs, etc.) to actually demonstrate a need to do so, rather than simply claim "effects like crime, disease, and blight are well-established." Because they're not. * Require all federal judges to take a Continuing Education course about sexuality. Healthy sexuality, not "sex addiction" or child molestation. Make this education mandatory for anyone aspiring to be a judge. * Get the FCC out of the censorship business. Let Americans use the "off" and "change channel" buttons on their TV remotes whenever they want; it's good practice for voting. * Remove the blocking software from every federally-funded computer in America -- libraries, universities, airports. Start with the computers in the White House and Congress. I've said in dozens of lectures this year that you won't make a difference in America's War On Sex. Please, prove me wrong. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
