No sex please, we're Texans

All right girls, all together now, stick your heads in the sand. One. Two. Three. Go!"\nPlop!\n"Hey," a garbled voice shouts. "It's dark down here. I can't see what's going on!"\n"Very true dear, but what you can't see can't hurt you. Blissful ignorance is much better than looking around and learning what really happens in life. Now just stay down here until you are 65 and can handle the world."\nWhose conversation do you suppose I am depicting? What group would voluntarily allow their heads and their asses to switch places? Why, the Girl Scouts of Waco, Texas, of course!\nIn the past couple of weeks, Waco's Girl-Scouting population has dropped to a less than robust two members. One troop closed down while the other dwindled in the face of record withdrawals. Now, the two remaining members must stalwartly trudge on under the financial siege of a cookie boycott.\nIt was the ever-vigilant members of Pro-Life Waco who started the Brownie exodus. According to these guys, the Girl Scouts made a mistake worthy of Judas himself when they began supporting the heathen concept of sex education.\nSatan-run Planned Parenthood provides the half-day program "Nobody's Fool." It provides an overview, for anyone interested, of the sexual continuum awaiting these youngsters in later years. The devilishly-named Bluebonnet Council, which administers several troops in the Waco area, endorses the program but does not require attendance by the scouts.\nThe complimentary booklet was a cause of great offense. According to London's Sunday Telegraph (March 7), it illustrated various techniques, such as condom application and intercourse. It contained chapters on masturbation and homosexuality.\n"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," one mother said. \nI'm confused. This woman is so uptight about sex that educational pamphlets embarrass her? You would think she is used to the whole idea by now, considering it is a prerequisite to motherhood.\n"It's not that we're a bunch of activists," concerned mother Lisa Aguilar said. "We're just a bunch of moms who care about their kids."\nNo Ms. Aguilar, you don't care for your children. \nCaring parents do not promote the ignorance of reality, such as the existence of homosexuals. In fact, they do not deny their children education on any subject.\nCaring parents are not against the onset of puberty. They do not make adolescents feel bad about experimenting with masturbation or experiencing sexual urges. Good parents find ways to teach their children what's happening.\nMost of all, caring parents are not in self-denial about sex in middle and high school. They then make every effort to keep their child safe if he or she engages in such activities. Regardless of religious ideals, it is too big a risk in today's world to only preach abstinence. Not everyone will listen, and without the knowledge of proper safety equipment the results can be disastrous.\nParents like those in Waco need to start living in reality. By condemning the notion of planned parenthood (which means both abstaining from sex and practicing safe sex), they are, in effect, promoting the idea of unplanned parenthood. This nightmare alone should cause parents to embrace sexual education, not shun it.\nI'll say it again: the sex will happen, but it should not happen in ignorance of the consequences or the mitigators. \nMs. Aguilar, get your head out of the sand.