Yet another reason...

There are many reasons we don't plan on living in Utah even though it is where the best Mormons go and the list of reasons just keeps getting longer. This was a recent article we stumbled across that is just mind blowing:

"Legislators passed Senate bill HB363 19-10 after a short debate during which many senators expressed their belief that sex education is meant for the home, not school.

'To replace the parent in the school setting, among people who we have no idea what their morals are, we have no ideas what their values are, yet we turn our children over to them to instruct them in the most sensitive sexual activities in their lives, I think is wrongheaded,' Republican state Sen. Stuart Reid said, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

The bill lifts the current requirement that all public schools must teach sex ed in grades 8 through 12. Districts would decide whether to offer sex ed classes that teach an abstinence-only curriculum, or not offer the course at all.

Teachers would be barred from talking about homosexuality even if asked about it by a student. They also must restrict their sexual education curriculum to advocating abstinence before marriage and remaining faithful to your spouse."

Can someone clarify this law for us? Maybe we are missing something here. Don't get us wrong, we are pro-abstinence only in relationships but is this law as ignorant, self-righteous and obtuse as this short article suggests? And the part about homosexuality, even the Bible talks about that so how does ignoring it help?

Hopefully the bill will stop there because this just seems like a step backwards. I know there are many in Zion that really want to "fit in" with the extreme views seen in other states but this is just silly. Lets be honest, the best way to pound anything in the minds of young people need to be done in the home and the school regardless what Stuart might think.