American conservatives are just as stupid as Australian conservatives
In my last post I pointed out that conservative Australian politicians are worried that an HPV vaccine will encourage girls to be promiscuous. It turns out I did not do my homework and that, as we all have come to expect, this absurd viewpoint is all over America, too.
The notion that kids are not having sex because of the specter of HPV is just stupid. There’s absolutely no evidence for it. Hey, I have an idea! Let’s stop developing antibiotics because they can be used to cure chlamydia! It doesn’t matter that antibiotics cure other infections and save lives—if we have them PEOPLE WILL HAVE SEX WHEN WE DON’T WANT THEM TO! And Jesus doesn’t like that.
I just don’t get why the Religious Right thinks it can shove its viewpoint down the throats of all Americans, especially when people’s lives are at stake. I am so sick of having to live in fear of these people, of the specter that somehow the little progress that has been made for civil rights for LGBT people and for women’s sexual health will be snatched away in the name of a false Jesus.
Again, this does not bode well for the emergence of vaccines for other sexually-transmitted diseases, notably HIV. There will be an outcry from these people when such a vaccine is developed, and it will be a sad day for all of us. I wonder why we don’t head this off at the pass and start asking these bad people now if they are going to oppose a vaccine when it finally arrives.
