CRC Potty-Mouth

Like a moth drawn to a flame, I checked the CRC's online discussion site this evening, and discovered that Biance, er, Retta, er, CRCPrecious has posted a piece titled "TTF Forum." Now we know that Retta didn't come to our forum, so I was a little curious to see what her take on it would be.

Ah, this, of course.

In his lecture on the scientific and medical aspects of sexual orientation, Dr. Paul Wertsch, the Chair of the American Medical Association's Advisory Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Concerning Patients, Medical Students, and Physicians, mentioned the research of Alfred Kinsey. Of course, modern sex research began with Kinsey, you can't really talk about it without mentioning him, but ... well, y'know, the extremists really really hate Kinsey.

Here, you can see Dr. Wertsch's Powerpoint presentation: CLICK HERE. Three of Dr. Wertsch's thirty-five slides describe Kinsey's work.

But all of Retta's, er, CRCPrecious's synopsis of the TeachTheFacts Forum -- which had five featured speakers plus two expert panelists, and lots of important statements from the audience, is about Kinsey. All of it.

And none of it is about his research, which is what we heard about. It's just about his personal life.

She says things like this:

he masturbated…with a foreign object inserted up his penis. By late adolescence, his masochism was well advanced. He had progressed beyond straws and was inserting a brush back up his penis.

and this:

It's absolutely vital that American's know the truth about this disgusting degenerate for his 'research' has been propagated throughout our society..

and so on.

We held our forum EXACTLY to rise above this kind of thinking. We were not there to gossip about rumors of curious sex practices by people we disagree with. Dr. Wertsch was there to discuss research on sexual behavior, and some of it, yes, was conducted by Kinsey.

The CRC has treated the MCPS sex-ed curriculum as pornography from the start, they have a kind of weird Midas Touch that makes everything ugly.

Before Kinsey, no one had dared study sexual behavior in the laboratory, and now the field of study he initiated has resulted in thousands of peer-reviewed studies published in dozens of scientific journals. Knowledge of human sexuality has increased steadily over those intervening decades, and knowledge is bad for the CRC, it undermines their arguments.

It is embarrassing to see what passes for discourse among these sad people who oppose the Montgomery County Public Schools. It is embarrasssing to me personally to be put on this level. But you can't just abandon our community to these Philistines, you have to fight. And you just pray you aren't contaminated by their filth.

Earlier today I posted the full text of Glenn North's discussion of comprehensive sex education at the forum. I hope to be able to post the text of the lecture by Deborah Roffman, and others. It is important for us to talk about the issues, not make potty-mouth about people we don't know.

I can't tell you how discouraging it is to see what we're up against here.

We learned a lot at the forum, and it was a pleasure not to have our heads pushed into the toilet, as happens when we listen to the Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum.