Blackwell Says Strickland "is Abandoning" Our Youth (READ COMMENTS)

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Thursday, March 22, 2007


Blackwell says Strickland "is abandoning" our youth

Ken Blackwell, former Ohio Secretary of State and Republican candidate for governor last year, stressed the importance of abstinence education today before a speech about marriage.

One out of every three babies in Ohio is born out of wedlock, Blackwell said.

"Unless you're totally giving up on character development of our young people, abstinence education is a must,'' Blackwell told reporters. "I believe that young people of character can overtake instincts to engage in premarital sex."

Blackwell said he would not get into the specifics of Gov. Ted Strickland's first budget plan -- which would cut $1 million over two years in the abstinence-only education program -- "but I want to talk about the principle of abandoning the (state-funded) abstinence programs. In effect what you're doing is abandoning our young people. . .He's not just abandoning programs. He's abandoning our youth."

Strickland, a Democrat, has said he thinks abstinence programs don't work well in the long run.
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[Kolesar]

1. Ohio public radio covered this story

Those comments at cincinnati.com are a hoot!

[mod mom]

3. They were posted anonymously. I guess there's someone in Ohio who

doesn't like Blackwell. ;)

[rodeodance]

2. Well, I think the PILL will " overtake instincts"

[NEOBuckeye]

4. For 16 years, Blackwell and his Republican Party abandoned Ohio's youth

By dropping the ball time and time again on education funding reform and allowing tuition costs at Ohio's public universities to skyrocket. College students have been fleeing the state in droves to find more affordable tuition, and economic opportunities elsewhere after college, because the Ohio Republican Party did nothing for the 16 years it was in control of State Government to stem the flow of jobs and businesses out of the state.

Whatever Ken Blackwell thinks of Strickland cutting funding for abstinence programs, his own party's inaction regarding the programs and policies that affect our youth on a more fundamental level have been far more damaging to the youth and future of this state by orders of magnitude.

[Kolesar]

6. good messaging

I have to bite my tongue and not say that they are a bunch of sexually repressed conservatives.

[unpossibles]

5. I see - all of the babies born during Blackwell's reign of abstinence only teaching

are Strickland's fault?

[marmar]

7. Blackwell has abandoned reality.....

His 15 minutes expired a long time ago.