Go, Maine!  In rejecting US federal funds slated for so-called “abstinence-only sex ed” you have become the third fine state (after California and Pennsylvania) in this nation to say, “Sorry, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, but…”

This year, Dr. Dora Anne Mills, the state’s public health director, said Maine was under pressure to tell teens that sex outside of marriage was unacceptable and that couples should be economically self-sufficient before they have sex.  “We were in a position of having to turn our backs on proven programs that we have been using for quite a while, versus accepting these (new) standards that we think may actually be harmful to our children,” said Mills.

Oh, ye gentle state of beaver pelters and L. L. Bean, you aren’t all that bad (that horrible December ‘vacation’ on Old Orchard Beach when I actually bought Birkenstocks there notwithstanding…).  Not only that, you give me hope.

(This “US Out of My Underwear!” update brought to you by No New Money.)

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