A letter to Republicans in Power

[GenuineRisk]

Please sirs (and the rare madam, though not of the kind mentioned in the article linked below)- please give serious thought to ceasing your endless attempts to police the morality of the American people. You just continue to embarrass yourselves. I'm sure this much schaudenfreude, like too many cupcakes, can't possibly be good for me.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/..._official.html

And before the Republicans on this board not in elected office (and, I assume, also not creepily obsessed with what other Americans do in their own bedrooms) start yelling, I say, yes, I imagine this DC madam has several Democrats on her list of regulars. And I also say personally, I don't care if the Deputy Secretary of State is visiting a high-class escort service for a "massage" (though, seeing as how he is married, and I assume, having sex with his wife, I sure hope he wore a condom when he got that "massage"). Hell, if I ran the world, I'd legalize prostitution so at least it would be safe, clean, and women wouldn't be getting the crap beaten out of them by men who feel safe doing so because the women can't go to the police for help without getting arrested themselves.

What I do care about is a party that legislates abstinence-only sex-ed for kids while many of its members are apparently out f*cking like bunnies, and not with their spouses (the three leading Republican presidential candidates have five divorces between them, all involving adultery, none of that on the wives' sides). So kids head out into the world as young adults with no credible information on protecting themselves from disease and with a government telling them even French kissing before marriage is bad and could give them AIDS (anyone see Sen. Frist dance around that question? Hilarious, if it weren't so sad). I care about a party demanding, and attempting to legislate, a level of "morality" for the American people that they have no intention of adhering to themselves. Talk about one rule for the mighty and another for the rest of us. I'm sure lots of Democrats are out having sex, too, but they aren't trying to legislate yours, or keep your teenage kids in the dark about condoms. And first and foremost, this is a health issue.

And no, I have no issue with kids being told abstinence is the only 100 percent effective method of disease prevention and birth control (it's true), but I have huge issues with them not being told about all the 95, 93, 80 and all the other percent ones. It's a health issue. Give them the info.

So please, die-hard conservatives, tell the Republican officials you loyally voted into office to drop the "family values" crap and get the hell out of American's sex lives. You can't regulate it, any more than you can eating or sleeping or sh*tting. Because it's that hard-wired into us. So please tell your party leaders to stop trying to make people feel bad about having sex. Tell them to accept it, people like to rut, and the wisest course of action is to make sure they know all the facts about it so that when they indulge, they can do it responsibly, with a minimum of risk. Getting married to have sex is the worst reason to get married and endorsing that course of action is also endorsing divorce, since getting married too young is a leading cause of it. And divorce, at least from what my friends say, is a lot more stressful and upsetting than premarital sex. Tell your representatives it's the smart thing to do. It's the right thing to do.

Or hell, tell them you're tired of your Democratic friends gleefully posting links like the one above. Because it's quite obnoxious of me, I know. And rather like shooting fish in a barrel these days.

And on my part, I'll start telling my Democratic officials to grow spines against the Morality Police and say that abstinence-only sex ed is useless at preventing teen sex and we're better off spending resources trying to prevent spread of disease when having sex. Deal?

Thank you for your attention to this matter, Republicans In Power. Please excuse me. I'm going to go eat a cupcake.