Social issues top agenda

JEFFERSON CITY — A year after Republicans took control of state government, conservative lawmakers are promoting a wide range of social legislation designed to rein in sex and unshackle the Bible.

From new limits on sex education classes to penalties for living in sin, the proposed laws would remake Missouri’s public life in myriad ways. They would sanction prayer in public schools, subsidize religious schools and allow the Bible to be taught in school.

One bill purports to help women make “the transition from work to home.” Another wants the legislature to recognize “a Christian God” as the deity for most Missourians.

Rep. Cynthia Davis, an O’Fallon Republican and sponsor of several bills, said conservatives are tired of an overly permissive society in which high school students are taught how to use condoms.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14077677.htm

Sounds like it's about time for the Missouri progressives to form their own state and leave the rest of Missouri to those whose family trees lack branches and who vote for the Repugnantcan cretins.

As a Registered Nurse and health educator, I am appalled by HB1075. I can go in and teach kids about STD's effects, symptoms, etc. and I can tell them they can get 100% protection from abstinence (which I do, by the way) but if a kid IS sexually active and they ask how they can protect themselves, I have to say, "You need to make an appointment with your family practitioner"? What planet are these people from? Have they ever been in a public school? Have they ever watched a young person die from HIV/AIDS? First, most kids don't have the copay to go to the physician, and if they did, do they want their parent to get the insurance statement of benefits? If they felt like they could go to their family doctor, they probably have the gumption to talk to their parent. It is the kids that CAN'T that are at risk. Do these religious radicals think we go in and start throwing condoms out to the kids and telling them how to go get an abortion? I always talk about the failure rates of condoms and birth control, but this bill makes it illegal for me to even mention them. WAKE UP CALL!! NO ONE is PRO-abortion. If you were REALLY concerned about PREVENTING abortions, instead of trying to cram YOUR religion down THEIR throats, then you would try to PREVENT UNPLANNED pregnancies. I am personally pro-life, I just don't think it is MY place to force my faith on others. That is between that family and their faith/God. :banghead:
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We need to get on the horn NOW and call all our Reps. because this bill has the support of some DEMOCRATS, namely;

Kate Meiner D-KC (46th Dist.)
Jeff City Office Phone# 1-573-751-9469 Home Phone 816-942-3837
Email Kate.Meiners@house.mo.gov

Belinda Harris D-Hillsboro (110th Dist.)
Jeff City Office Phone# 1-573-751-2398 Home Phone 636-944-3522
Email Belinda.Harris@house.mo.gov or edharrisfarm@yahoo.com

Others that MAY support it, just based on other votes;

Wayne Henke D-Troy (11th Dist.)
Jeff City Phone 1-573-751-9459 Home Phone 636-528-6987
Email Wayne.Henke@house.mo.gov or waydot@hotmail.com

Wes Wagner D-DeSoto (104th Dist.)
Jeff City Phone 1-573-751-7735 Home Phone 636-337-2555
Email Wes.Wagner@house.mo.gov

Tim Meadows D-Imperial (101st Dist.)
Jeff City Phone 1-573-751-1311 Home Phone 636-461-1217
Email Tim.Meadows@house.mo.gov

"One bill purports to help women make “the transition from work to home."

And do they also plan to help women make the transition from income to no income? I thought that was one of those many, many, many, many things they were busy frowning upon. Seems to be just a tad inconsistent to me...

They claim that there is a women's bureau in MO that has only one employee so the focus is only on work related women's issues and not on issues that concern women who stay home. This bill will apparently provide funds so other women's issues can be covered by this bureau. They mention helping women start home businesses.

?????? And if they fail in their venture, the women are supposed to ??????

This fails the reality test.

They want mom to work from home, but (the usual mantra here) single mothers who are unlikely to have access to adequate child care should get out and work?

They don't want to pay for batteries for electric wheelchairs so its rather hard to imagine them paying out start up and early maintenance money for a home business. The fact that a lot of these women are unlikely to have enough money to start a home business and maintain their ability to pay their bills until the proposed home business starts making enough money (if it ever does) to pay the bills. Of course, they could go out and get a loan, go into debt, possibly lose it all and end up paying on a loan that doesn't put a roof over their head, that they can't drive to a job or the grocery store, or educate them for a better job.

This really is a silly idea.

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