DA Wants to Arrest Teachers for State Mandated Sex Education

What do you do when you try to follow a state law and then the DA tells you if you comply he will arrest you?

Say what?

Well that is the case in Wisconsin where the new Healthy Youth Act instructs schools that offer age appropriate sex education to include the use of contraceptives in the lessons.  In other words how to put on a condom, etc.  It's pretty basic sex ed stuff and parents have the option of pulling their kids out of the class if they see fit.

Here is where the DA (DIstrict Attorney, not dumb ass, but you be the judge) comes in.  Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth fired off a letter to the county's school districts threatening them with prosecution if they held the classes.  Southworth threatened to charge the teachers with "misdemeanor or felony delinquency of a minor".

In his view telling kids how to prevent pregnancy and disease is a crime. "Moreover, the teacher could be charged with this crime even if the child does not actually engage in the criminal behavior," Southworth added.

So this zealot for whatever reason has decided that a teacher informing kids who might be sexually active about contraception would be encouraging delenquency and guilty of a sex crime.  Oh Puleeze!

In study after study "abstenence only" sex education has been shown to be ineffetive and downright useless at preventing disease and unwanted pregnancies.  Why would a DA do this?  My guess is he has strong religious views that are driving him and he is seeking reelection in a fundamentalist district. Or, he is just plain kicked-in-the-head-stupid.  My guess is the later.