The Return of the Dark Ages

... only instead of Bubonic Plague, we'll have outbreaks of teenage pregnancy, botched abortions, AIDS and other exhilarating STD's.

This from the New York Times:

Energized by electoral victories last month that they say reflect wide
support for more traditional social values, conservative Christian
advocates across the country are pushing ahead state and local initiatives
on thorny issues, including same-sex marriage, public education and
abortion

And here's a few of the fun things that they have in store for us:

In Texas, conservative Christians are backing an amendment to prevent
human cloning, a measure that would also block the kind of cloning used
in embryonic stem-cell research.

In Georgia, advocacy groups hope to win approval this year of two
measures limiting abortion, after redistricting helped Republicans take
control of the state legislature

In Kansas, conservatives have won a majority on the State Board of
Education, which is expected to introduce changes this spring to the
high school science curriculum challenging the theory of evolution.

State Representative Cynthia Davis of Missouri prefiled two bills for
the next session of the Legislature that she said "reflect what people
want." One would remove the state's requirement that all forms of
contraception and their potential health effects be taught in schools,
leaving the focus on abstinence. Another would require publishers that
sell biology textbooks to Missouri to include at least one chapter with
alternative theories to evolution.

and Ms. Davis says:
"It's like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept. 11
and took people to a place where they didn't want to go," she added.
"I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country
somewhere we don't want to go. I think a lot more people realize this is
our country and we're going to take it back."

Liberals have taken our country somewhere we didn't want to go???? WTF? Does she mean teaching real science in public schools so our children can be educated and we can compete internationally with other countries in the fields of science and technology? Yeah, no one wants to go there.

Or does she mean teaching real health issues and real sex education so our children will be equipped to be sexually responsible, disease free, and have the tools and knowledge available to put off parenthood until they are ready for it? No, no one wants to go there! We'd rather have skyrocketing teenage pregnancy and a bunch of kids that don't know how to properly use condoms with sores on their tallywhackers that they don't know what are. That's what America needs!

I think Anthony D. Romero of the A.C.L.U says it all right here:
"...we need to ask, where is the morality when a partner of 20 years
is denied hospital access because a state doesn't believe in gay marriage?
Where is the morality in forcing a teenage girl into a back-alley
abortion?"