Barack Obama is in favor of teaching sex education to Kindergartners?

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do." "I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate. "'Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners,'" said Obama mimicking Keyes' distinctive style of speech. "Which -- I didn’t know what to tell him (laughter)." "But it’s the right thing to do," Obama continued, "to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools." See link - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/sex-ed-for-kind.html Question - What are your thoughts on this ?

Public Comments

1. I think it's a silly distraction.
2. Well, seeing as there are 11 year olds getting knocked up now days, Kindergarten seems about right.
3. Don't you want to teach kids how to recognize and protect themselves from pedophiles? Just like we teach them to stop drop and roll, and just say no, and call 911 etc etc. You Republicans are desperate. The Christian Broadcast Network even supports Obama on this.
4. I think age appropriate sexual education is a good PREVENTATIVE measure. I was taught from the age of two the basics of sex and the correct terminology regarding anatomy by my parents. The rationale was that I would be more knowledgeable should someone try to molest me to either get out of the situation or have the vocabulary to express what happened. I have always respected myself in terms of my sexuality. I did become sexually active until college and have had few partners. I feel education makes you responsible.
5. oh...so if we look at the transcript...it doesn't match up to the headline...the zealots can get fired up by a non-issue...and we can all thank the talking points clearinghouse at the rnc.
6. yes great... get the mtv mentality in even younger , if you get my drift
7. Here is the rest of Obama's quote: "We have a existing law that mandates sex education in the schools. We want to make sure that it’s medically accurate and age-appropriate. "Now, I’ll give you an example, because I have a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and one of the things my wife and I talked to our daughter about is the possibility of somebody touching them inappropriately, and what that might mean. And that was included specifically in the law, so that kindergartners are able to exercise some possible protection against abuse, because I have family members as well as friends who suffered abuse at that age. So, that’s the kind of stuff that I was talking about in that piece of legislation." ------------------------------... Oh yeah, that's a real evil law right there. God forbid a child actually be taught how to protect themselves. I think his words are being taken out of context, as usual. I intend to teach my daughter this stuff before kindergarten, so she knows how to tell me if something is wrong.
8. Thats just wrong. it should be up to the parents to teach sex education in the first place and if I want my child of 5 or 6 to know the difference in the sexes, I will tell them myself. They need to be teaching parents How to be parents. Edit: Its ironic that we live in a society that wants the teachers to be the parents and the parents to be the teachers.
9. Good idea with REPUBLICAN Mark Foley around.They should be given some Kung-Fu lessons at the same time to protect themselves against repubs........
10. I think it's wrong. Who decides what's appropriate? It should be left up to the parents. Schools can teach children how to protect themselves from pedophiles without sex education. In fact they can do that now without any law. All the school district has to do is let the parents know and have them sign a permission slip. Very few will disagree because it's a signal there's a problem. It's called "good touch, bad touch". http://www.goodtouchbadtouch.com/index.php