Some 1,700 years ago, a hermit living in the Egyptian desert predicted “a time is coming when people will go mad.”
“And when they see someone who is not mad,” continued the man known today as St. Anthony the Great, “they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us.’”
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These days,
Concerned Women for America President Wendy Wright is on the receiving end of that peculiar brand of madness.
To MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Wright is “the worst person in the world.” To
The Nation’s Jessica Valenti, she “does a huge disservice to young women.” And to prominent left-wing bloggers, who tend to be a bit less reserved, Wright has “left the world of reality and entered a state of delusion” (News Hounds) and “really is nuts” (Pam’s House Blend).
What did she do to earn such outrage? Interviewed for a Dec. 31 Fox News segment on the debate over federal funding for abstinence education, Wright claimed groups that oppose funding for such programs really want teens to choose sex.
“In fact, they want to encourage that,” she said,
because they benefit when kids end up having sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, and then they lead them into having abortions. So you have to look at the financial motives of those promoting comprehensive sex ed.
Although Wright didn’t mention any specific abstinence opponent in the interview clip, there is little doubt she meant Planned Parenthood.
The nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood lobbies tirelessly for the de-funding of abstinence efforts in favor of “comprehensive sex education” programs in public schools — formulated by Planned Parenthood, of course.
There is no question that Planned Parenthood benefits enormously from bringing its educators into schools. High school and college-age clients make up the majority of its business. According to the organization’s 2006 annual report, some 70 percent of its customers are under the age of 25 – and 27 percent are under the age of 20.
And make no mistake about it, despite the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s nonprofit status, it is a business — a $908 million one that earned $55.8 million in income over expenses in fiscal 2006. Those excess funds were made possible by over $300 million in taxpayer dollars, more than three times the amount that the federal government spent on abstinence education that same year.
