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King Middle School in Portland, Maine has become the central front in a new sexual revolution.

Despite great fulminations by parents who think that a) it’s best to pretend that sexually active middle schoolers don’t exist, and b) it’s best for sexually active middle schoolers who insist on existing anyway to have contraception withheld from them, because c) providing contraception is only going to contribute to Erosion of Moral Fiber and encourage them to f*** their brains out, school officials have decided “to allow (students) to obtain birth-control pills at a middle-school health center”.

Suffice it to say that this proposal by King Middle School officials sparked a huge f***ing fuss, and very heated debate indeed. God was invoked frequently. By people who apparently believe quite fervently that it is a grievous sin to take the name of the Lord in vain. Somehow or the other, the people with God on their side didn’t carry the day.

Media reports about the new program can be rather confusing. For example, in just one story, AP first says the decision was “to allow children as young as 11 to obtain birth-control pills at a middle-school health center”, then states that the health center had asked “to make birth-control pills available to high school-aged students who were still in middle school and unable to access the contraception available at the high school” and goes on to aver that only “five of the school’s 510 students would have qualified for the birth control under the program last year”.

So maybe children as young as 11 will not be obtaining birth-control pills at the middle school’s health center?

But let me come to the point I really want to make. The health center “has dispensed condoms since 2000″. There doesn’t seem to have been any f***ing fuss about that. Dispensing condoms apparently doesn’t Corrupt our Innocent Children, Erode their Moral Fiber or promote promiscuity. But hand out birth control pills, and not only does God-sh** start to hit the fan, but it turns our daughters into sluts.

So let me see if I’ve got this straight. The best of all possible worlds is when no contraception is provided to these kids. If relatively imperfect means of contraception are made available, means that are not entirely within the control of the girls who might end up getting pregnant, that’s not quite the end of the world. But relatively foolproof contraception which puts contraception control in the hands of girls, that’s the end of civilization as we know it.

Welcome to America in the Middle Ages! Quite fitting, isn’t it, for the central front in this battle to be a middle school?