Kate Sheppard is giving Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker a hard time for promoting abstinence-only education instead of fulfilling his mandate to create jobs:
Step 1: Wisconsin Republicans repeal the state’s comprehensive sex education law.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Jobs!
Au contraire. Abstinence-only education is a veritable engine of job creation. Ab-Only-Until-Hetero-Marriage propaganda is proven to create jobs for obstetricians, wholesale pencillin brokers, marriage counsellors, baby bootie bronzers, and the stroller sector.
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillmanblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.
