SEATTLE - There must be a whole lotta people out there who are afraid of sex.

I mention this only because of the controversy swirling around a pair of bills in the state Legislature right now.

They focus on a revolutionary concept.

That is: If a public school is going to teach sex ed, then the information has to be medically accurate, and the school can't teach abstinence as the ONLY way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

How's that for radical?

Anyway, those folks afraid of sex seem to figure that if kids are told about condoms and such, that means the kids will think they're being encouraged to go out and do the big nasty.

Kind of like how when kids are told about logarithms, they just run mathematically amok.

Look, there's nothing in House Bill 1297, or Senate Bill 5297, that says schools must tell teenagers to go out and have sex. These bills aren't about behavior.

They're about giving kids accurate information.

How they use that information depends on what Mom and Dad teach them about being responsible.

And if parents haven't done that, well, maybe they should be afraid.

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