Sex, Drugs, and Encouragement at Boulder High

I can understand the complaint about encouraging drug use.

And, this being the FRC, I know you think gays are icky and have an Evil Scheme to corrupt children and homoify them.

But... why are you objecting to an instruction for mastubation? Its harmless, relieves stress, and its certinly far prefable to actual sex. You should be *encouraging* mastubation! After all, the FRC is very strongly in favour of abstinance education programs... and those programs would work a lot better if the subjects were able to relieve the hormone-induced sexual tension without guilt.

How does one go about sanctioning a speaker like this and what was the general reaction of parents and faculty? If you have more info it would be helpful. I find the comments totally irresponsible on several levels not just from my Christian view. I'm sadly disappointed that our education system is ensnared in the immoral rape of our children's minds.

I would guess through ignorance - the teachers choose someone who looked respectable, and didn't think to screen his speech beforehand.

The deeper elements of Joel Becker's intellectual cowardice will likely never come to light. And the reason is simple. He will not allow himself to be interviewed by someone who understands the moral confusion within his kind of intellect. Thus he disallows the really tough questions. Ask him, for example, if he would yield to an interview with, say, the person who investigated the Jim Jones cult for eight years prior to the Guyana mass murder. You will find that he runs from it faster than a vampire flees from a cross wrapped in garlic. Joel Becker is an intellectual coward, but he cunningly avoids having that fact brought to light. In the book, LEDNORF'S DILEMMA, you'll find a thorough treatment of Becker's kind of cowardice, along with the courageous path by which one can overcome the spiritual dementia displayed by the Joel Beckers of this world.
Should you doubt what I say, then ask yourself why Becker fears the kind of interview I have suggested. The answer is simple, of course: He would be exposed in a matter of minutes.

The deeper elements of Joel Becker's intellectual cowardice will likely never come to light. And the reason is simple. He will not allow himself to be interviewed by someone who understands the moral confusion within his kind of intellect. Thus he disallows the really tough questions. Ask him, for example, if he would yield to an interview with, say, the person who investigated the Jim Jones cult for eight years prior to the Guyana mass murder. You will find that he runs from it faster than a vampire flees from a cross wrapped in garlic. Joel Becker is an intellectual coward, but he cunningly avoids having that fact brought to light. In the book, LEDNORF'S DILEMMA, you'll find a thorough treatment of Becker's kind of cowardice, along with the courageous path by which one can overcome the spiritual dementia displayed by the Joel Beckers of this world.
Should you doubt what I say, then ask yourself why Becker fears the kind of interview I have suggested. The answer is simple, of course: He would be exposed in a matter of minutes.

The speakers presented their particular perspectives on the topics of sex and drugs. The high school students are then free to take what they want from the lecture, ask questions, come to their own conclusions, then perhaps ask more questions. If the the administrators at the school feel that the presentation was too one-sided, they could balance out the panel by offering some contrasting viewpoints from other people. Regardless of the merits of the presentation, perhaps the debate it inspires is a good thing. Although many of the students may have disagreed with the viewpoints presented, I'm guessing that few felt personally damaged or hurt. From what I can tell, the speakers did not denegrate any of the students, either as individuals or as categories. A speaker coming from a fundamentalist Christian perspective might be hurtful, though, if they were to condem certain students as a categories of people, gay students, or children of unwed mothers for instance. These Boulder High students will soon realize when they (hopefully) go off to college in a couple of years, that they will be exposed to a variety of viewpoints across the political and moral spectrum. Some of these ideas and words may be hurtful or offensive, but it's the price we pay for living in a free, robust and pluralistic democracy.