Crooks Versus Citizens In Missouri
From new limits on sex education classes to penalties for living in sin, the proposed laws would remake Missouri’s public life in myriad ways. They would sanction prayer in public schools, subsidize religious schools and allow the Bible to be taught in school.
One bill purports to help women make “the transition from work to home.” Another wants the legislature to recognize “a Christian God” as the deity for most Missourians.
If the state starts paying for contraceptives we will have more babies than if we just teach people to not expect free prostitution from poor people.
- Representative Cynthia Davis, via Feministing