Bush babies

Interesting. Very interesting. Human behaviour at the core of it all.

The US Centre for Disease Control, which is some public health administration, has released a report that openly, undoubtedly, clearly and maybe somewhat shockingly shows that teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis have gone up across the USA during the second term of president George Bush.

Now that is hell of a legacy for reborn-Christian Bush II. The Bible as a policy instrument clearly didn’t work in the teachings of the flesh. The demonization of contraception under Bush’s conservative Christianity inspired educational policies have just lead to the opposite of what it was intending to do. It spread the word that pre-marital sex was pure evil. And those condoms were an evil instrument of lust that needed to be banned. Sex was only acceptable after marriage and for baby-making purposes only. The devil is in our heads and needs to be tamed! Sorry, needs to be cleansed by death.

The Bush-backers should quickly run to their churches, light a candle and fill the coffers of the evangelical spin doctor some more, because that policy clearly did not work. It backfired right in their face! Oh boy, “evil” has won! Light another candle quickly.

The Bible-based policies forgot one thing: humanity.

The report by this Centre for Disease Control proofs that since 1991 teenage pregnancies (we are talking here about girls under 15 being pregnant) were on the decrease. Same for syphilis. But in 2005 this trend reversed sharply. And especially in the American southern States. Interesting as these States are more conservative and feel closer to Bush’s Bible policies than the more, so called, liberal states like NY or Massachusetts. So as President Bush is in his second term and the effects from his evangelical social and educational policies are starting to cause effect, his legacy is an increase in teenage pregnancies. Tell that to mass on Sunday!

It should teach those narrow minded people out there that youngsters will have sex, whatever religion, race, ... they belong to. Rich or poor. Urban or rural. So instead of rejecting reality and by that undermining the (sexual) health of young people – including the kids of conservative parents themselves – sexual education is the key. Teach youngsters about sex and responsibility and consequences. And make contraception available. And de-demonise contraception. Get real. Rejecting reality and human behaviour is more evil than preaching blindly and dumbly. Reality is there to see and accept. Work within reality instead of sticking to theoretical wish-wash. And don’t blame liberals or other religions or so called modernisation or punks or losers or broken marriages or music or movies or certain teachers or anything like that. Accept reality and work within reality. It is of the interest of all children; even those that you take to Sunday church too.

From sex to world politics. Just a step for mankind. Should say humankind. That’s more respectful to the female half (majority in fact) of this planet.

I haven’t heard much of Iran or North Korea lately. The protest in Iran have slowed down as the authorities have reacted forcefully. But the critical voices within the clergy are still very much present. Interesting to watch.

And North Korea. There seems to have been some mudslinging rhetoric between the nuke nutters and the outside world again. Also interesting to watch. Washington DC seems to think that North Korea is exporting nuke technology and know-how to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Dictatorships always find each other even if they are ideologically on the opposite sides. Amazing in fact how North Korea’s philosophy that it is indoctrinating its starving population with is based on hardline communism and hate for the capitalist West. While the military regime in Burma is tightening the screws on the poor nation against any leftist inspired protest and eventual uprising. But doing military deals together seems all fine. Human behaviour at its darkest.

Throwout. Just thinking about Van Morrison’s “The Healing Game” album. For me his best . Deep. I can listen to it any time anywhere.

C-Ya

collateral – July 2009 is standing on the edge of the dustbin of history