Governor Nanny

What I found (4.00 / 1)

on teh Google:

In addition to being rabidly anti-gay, she also has some unusual ideas about abstinence education. The fact that she supports abstinence only education should not come as a surprise. What is downright weird is her belief that holding hands leads to pre-marital sex and STDs. I kid you not. From the Concord Monitor on April 2, 2003:

A state committee advocating abstinence education is recommending that a "just say no" to sex message should be spread via community programs, according to a draft of its final report. During a meeting yesterday, the group also vowed to support programs that promote the social skills necessary to help young people avoid premarital sex.

"Holding hands is the first step," said Karen Testerman, a committee member, "you're not even supposed to do that if you can avoid it."

So no hand holding kids, you might get VD from the toilet seat. Uh--

Also note that in 2003, under Republican majorities and a Republican Governor, this is what the state of NH busied itself with.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 21:26:40 PM CST

Strue. (4.00 / 2)

1964: "I Want to Hold Your Hand!"
1965: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

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by: elwood @ Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 21:45:08 PM CST

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Yuck (4.00 / 2)

They need to know that sex without boundaries is deadly.

Why does that sound like the opening line of a comedy about New Hampshire college life called Live Free or Party?

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by: JimC @ Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 22:02:12 PM CST

Sinners in the hands of an angry Republican (4.00 / 1)

Testerman's uncontrolled salivation at the thought of careless teenagers contracting horrible, deadly diseases may seem off-putting at first glance... but considering that people like her firmly believe that sinners are GOING TO BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY, a puny little case of AIDS is a walk in the park. Just an appetizer course for the FIRES OF ETERNAL DAMNATION.

So why exactly are so many followers of Christ so full of hate, hate, hate? Gives Jesus and Christianity a bad name, 'swhat it does.

...Of course, if she manages to make the Republican ticket, she'll serve a valuable function for her party by making Kelly Ayotte seem moderate by comparison.  

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by: jvwalt @ Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 23:02:12 PM CST

Hey, give the Puritans (4.00 / 2)

a break. They weren't that prudish. Ever hear of "bundling"?

And Jonathan Edwards gets a bad rap, IMO.  

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 05:43:50 AM CST

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Edwards' Church was in Northampton, Mass.... (0.00 / 0)

So you know if he were preaching today he'd be four square for the New Age granola gospel.

Or he'd get run out of town again.

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by: Tim Ashwell @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 13:55:39 PM CST

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I'd really like to see (4.00 / 1)

a study showing that those who wait to have sex until marriage are able to "attain a higher level of education, be financially secure, happier and to enjoy sex more".  My guess, and it's as much a guess as is her assertion, is that most healthy, productive, happy, college-educated people have had sex with more than one person.  My guess would also be the same for unhealthy, unproductive, unhappy, non-college-education people and everyone in between.  I see no correlation between the right-wing obsession with abstinence and, well, just about anything else.

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by: FrankLloydMike @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 08:46:56 AM CST

logically, she should be in favor of marriage equality (0.00 / 0)

I guess this means she is in favor of marriage equality. After all, she doesn't want single gay people to be having nonmarital sex.  So, it is only logical that Ms Testerman would be encouraging young gay people to marry rather than running the massive risks associated with sex outside marriage.  It would illogical for her to expect those gay people to marry people of the opposite gender: such marriages could only lead to secretive extramarital sex, which she is even more vehemently opposed to.

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Thanks for all the fish


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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 09:12:39 AM CST

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You Are A Funny Guy... (4.00 / 1)

...who is just TOO logical.  You'd be a great Governor.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 10:28:22 AM CST

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I would count her (0.00 / 0)

among those in the logic-based community.

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by: FrankLloydMike @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 13:33:37 PM CST

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Her mission is accomplished. (4.00 / 3)

Nothing is a more effective anti-aphrodisiac than hearing Karen Testerman talking about sex.

It's like the waiter explaining the evening's specials to you at the Sausage Cafe being Upton Sinclair.

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by: Tim C. @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 10:05:01 AM CST

I'd comment on your awesome metaphor... (0.00 / 0)

... but I'm too busy having fulfilling genital contact with my wife.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

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by: Corporate Dog @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 12:38:28 PM CST

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I'd comment on your awesome metaphor... (0.00 / 0)

... but I'm too busy having fulfilling genital contact with my wife.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

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by: Corporate Dog @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 12:38:29 PM CST

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Egads. (0.00 / 0)

That did NOT need to be printed TWICE.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

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by: Corporate Dog @ Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 12:39:15 PM CST

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Sexual Freedom (0.00 / 0)

Bertrand Russell makes the case:

Sex, more than any other element in human life, is still viewed by many, perhaps by most, in an irrational way. Homicide, pestilence, insanity, gold and precious stones - all the things, in fact, that are the objects of passionate hopes or fears - have been seen, in the past, through a mist of magic or mythology; but the sun of reason has now dispelled the mist, except here and there. The densest cloud that remains is in the territory of sex, as is perhaps natural since sex is concerned in the most passionate part of most people's lives. . . .

In the second place, it is unlikely that a person without previous sexual experience, whether man or woman, will be able to distinguish between mere physical attraction and the sort of congeniality that is necessary in order to make marriage a success. Moreover, economic causes compel men, as a rule, to postpone marriage, and it is neither likely that they will remain chaste in the years from 20 to 30, nor desirable psychologically that they should do so; but it is much better that, if they have temporary relations, that they should be not with professionals, but with girls of their own class, whose motive is affection rather than money. For both these reasons, young unmarried people should have considerable freedom as long as children are avoided.{/i}

From Our Sexual Ethics.

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by: Dunedain @ Thu Dec 10, 2009 at 13:36:33 PM CST