Current Affairs
Jun. 5th, 2004 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyLooks like Mr Howard has found his election issue; since no-one trusts him any more about refugees or the war, it's time to turn to banning gay marriage in order to distract and divide the community with a non-existent crisis.
Voters don't believe PM on Iraq abuse
Iraqi POW evidence overboard Govt duck and cover
Who says 'I do' should not be left to MPs (check out Leno's painfully funny gag at the end)
Howard blames his underlings - again
Defence not alone in Iraq jail inaction
In other news, US sex education prohibits teachers from explaining contraception. In other words, the government would rather teenagers died than had sex: they know perfectly well that abstinence-only education is a flop, so this is simply punitive. It's also the most transparent hypocrisy. According to this article there are as many as 900,000 teenage pregnancies in the US each year, half of them resulting from a failure to use contraception; about a third will end in abortion, so the pro-life US government is also - knowingly - boosting the annual number of abortions by something like 200,000.
Voters don't believe PM on Iraq abuse
Iraqi POW evidence overboard Govt duck and cover
Who says 'I do' should not be left to MPs (check out Leno's painfully funny gag at the end)
Howard blames his underlings - again
Defence not alone in Iraq jail inaction
In other news, US sex education prohibits teachers from explaining contraception. In other words, the government would rather teenagers died than had sex: they know perfectly well that abstinence-only education is a flop, so this is simply punitive. It's also the most transparent hypocrisy. According to this article there are as many as 900,000 teenage pregnancies in the US each year, half of them resulting from a failure to use contraception; about a third will end in abortion, so the pro-life US government is also - knowingly - boosting the annual number of abortions by something like 200,000.
