Adnerb:
There were no pregnancies in your school, really? No girls suddenly “left town” several months before graduation? That’s kind of surprising. My mom was one of those girls who quietly left her small town for the big city with her new husband and expanding waistline. This was 1966, and she was far from the only one. I’m proof of that!
The argument about kids learning about gay sex in school is overblown. They’re not given the “Joy of Gay Sex” and a bottle of lube, and told to go experiment. They’re simply taught that some boys don’t like girls, some girls don’t like boys, etc. Sex education is far less titillating, and lurid as many on the right seem to fear.
Also, regardless of what the kids are told, even if you show them a Chi Chi LaRue film, the ones who are straight are NOT going to magically become gay. It just doesn’t freakin’ work that way.
“Slippery Slope,” as I said before, is a logical fallacy. One of the big ones. People ought to be aware that using such arguments–especially when using the actual name of the fallacy–does not strengthen their argument.
