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Antigen:
Right, I have my reservations about whether a topic as private and sensitive as sex ought to be formally addressed in a public school setting to begin with. But it's sort of accepted that it is and ever shall be. So the big tadoo was over whether or not to teach it comprehensively and accurately.

But then, I take mild offence to all those preachy PSAs preaching about everything from smoking habits to insurance fraud. I just don't think government has any place moralizing and preaching at us.
What is this new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine or public housing, regards as heinous any challenge to what is called the system of private enterprise, identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete. The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and conscience... What do men know of loyalty who make a mockery of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights?
Henry Steele Commager, 1947
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