Acceptance of Science Bill [Failed]

[Bono]

I'd like some clarification of what this bill would actually do. Would it require public schools that receive direct federal funding to change their curricula?

[Bono]

I'd like some clarification of what this bill would actually do. Would it require public schools that receive direct federal funding to change their curricula?

If those schools wanted to continue receiving any funding in those specific departments, yes.

How would this affect the Southeast's voucher program?

[Bono]

Nay to both

You've really become a socialist. No to the second I can understand, but to the first?

[Bono]

Any attempt to legislate to terminate funding for sex education programmes in schools would be swiftly vetoed.

Why does everything you like have to be federally funded?

[Bono]

Any attempt to legislate to terminate funding for sex education programmes in schools would be swiftly vetoed.

Why does everything you like have to be federally funded?

People don't support sex education because they "like" it.  Comprehensive sex education is about saving lives, not pushing sex as a fun idea on a reluctant population or whatever you're implying.

Exactly. Bono, if I could trust all parents to give their children sex education and grant them the opportunity to get varying opinions then there would be no need for comprehensive sex education in schools. However many parents are unwilling, unable or give down right false information to their children, often for religous purposes or due to prudity.

The classroom is a private, sensible and open arena of discussion about very sensitive issues. I will not, under any circumstances support the defunding of sex education in schools period.

I still don't see how that jumps to federla funding. Why can't the regions decide?

[Bono]

Presumably the reasoning is that since the parents have made a conscious choice to have their kids learn scientific fallacies that choice should trump the concerns of the general public that would be paying for such miseducation.  I disagree with that reasoning as this bill does not require the teaching of any particular information nor require private schools to accept public money if they wish to teach scientific fallacies.

Obviously your support for federalism is inversely proportional to your distance from the Southeast.

[Bono]

Presumably the reasoning is that since the parents have made a conscious choice to have their kids learn scientific fallacies that choice should trump the concerns of the general public that would be paying for such miseducation.  I disagree with that reasoning as this bill does not require the teaching of any particular information nor require private schools to accept public money if they wish to teach scientific fallacies.

Obviously your support for federalism is inversely proportional to your distance from the Southeast.

How so?  This bill only pertains to funds spent by the Federal government.  If the Southeast government wishes to spend its own money to send children to schools that could not receive federal money as a result of this bill, that is up to the Southeast to decide. I believe in Federalism not Regionalism.

The problem is the amount of money the Southeast can collect is limited by oppressive federal taxes.

[Bono]

If this upcoming cloture vote doesn't pass, I would like to present another amendment as follows.  If not, please ignore:

Section 1, Clause 1 shall be amended to read:

the trait of homosexuality is an entirely conscious choice and/or is strange or unnatural.

Har de har har.

The original version includes bisexuality.  Confusion is never a conscious choice, certainly...

Well, I think that gays choose to be homosexual as much as retards choose to be autistic.

Autism isn't mental retardation.

[Bono]

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