Here's another of the 1600 Crew's Wankerthon Members....Wade F. Horn. He's got a PhD in child clinical psychology and is some kind of assistant secretary for counting lemmings or something at Health and Human Services. He recently had a letter to the editor in the NYTimes.

To the Editor:

Nicholas D. Kristof claims that "there's plenty of evidence" that contraception-based sex education works ("Bush's Sex Scandal," column, Feb. 16). Well, not exactly.

Of the 29 experimental studies that examined the effectiveness of contraception-based sex education programs in delaying sexual intercourse, promoting the use of contraception and preventing pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, some found positive effects, some found no effects and some even found negative effects.

Hardly a ringing endorsement of the effectiveness of contraception-based sex education programs.

One of the few programs that did reduce pregnancies through contraception, the Children's Aid Society-Carrera, did so by injecting young women with Depo-Provera. But injecting teenage girls with Depo-Provera does nothing to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

One thing is clear. Abstinence is the only 100 percent effective means of preventing both pregnancy and S.T.D.'s. Why, then, is it such a "scandal" that we tell our young people this simple truth?

Wade F. Horn
Asst. Secretary, Administration
for Children and Families, Dept.
of Health and Human Services

By gum! I think he's on to something here. The good Dr. who is eminently qualified as an expert in the transmission vectors of STD's and has such a strong bio in epidemiology, that looks like this:

Wade F. Horn, Ph.D. was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on July 30, 2001. The Administration for Children and Families is responsible for programs that promote the social and economic well-being of families. ACF’s programs include Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, foster care, adoption assistance, family preservation and support, Head Start, child care, child support enforcement, runaway and homeless youth, low income home energy assistance, community services, refugee resettlement, mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and community services.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Horn was President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, whose mission is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the number of children growing up with involved, committed and responsible fathers in their lives.

From 1989-1993, Dr. Horn was the Commissioner for Children, Youth and Families and Chief of the Children’s Bureau in the Administration on Children, Youth and Families. He also served as a Presidential appointee to the National Commission on Children from 1990-1993, was a member of the National Commission on Childhood Disability from 1994-1995, and the U.S. Advisory Board on Welfare Indicators from 1996-1997. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Horn was the Director of Outpatient Psychological Services at the Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. From 1993 to 2001, Dr. Horn was also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute, and an affiliate scholar with the Hudson Institute.

Dr. Horn is the author of numerous articles on children and family issues, including a weekly newspaper column entitled Fatherly Advice, and is the co-author of several books including The Better Homes and Gardens New Father Book (Meredith Books, 1998) and The Better Homes and Gardens New Teen Book (Meredith Books, 1999.) He is also the lead editor of The Fatherhood Movement: A Call to Action (Lexington Books, 1998.)

Dr. Horn is frequently featured on television and radio as a child development expert and commentator. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, 20/20, 48 Hours, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, NBC Nightly News, CNBC, Fox News Channel, CNN and MS-NBC.

Dr. Horn received his Ph.D. in clinical child psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1981. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with his wife and two daughters.

An advocate of shrinking government, Don Eberly, the head of the Civil Society Project promotes faith-based organizations, private philanthropic initiatives, traditional families, volunteerism and the building of a 'values' society. Whose 'values' is the question.
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You won't find him on many of television's talking head programs, you wouldn't be able to pick him out of a line-up, and his essays aren't sexed-up or buzz-worthy, but for more than 15 years, Don Eberly has been one of the leading advocates of a strain of conservative advocacy known as "civil society."
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For Eberly, "the function of culture in a free society is to establish and maintain boundaries around beliefs and behaviors considered necessary for maintaining a democratic society.... Much of what passes for culture today is, in fact, anti-culture. Its chief aim is to emancipate, not restrain - to give free reign to human appetite, not moderate it."

Eberly rails against the "Break the rules!" "Have no fear!" "Be yourself!" mantras that now predominate in the culture. Thus, Eberly returns to two of his major themes, shrinking the government and the role that faith-based organizations, community groups and private philanthropy can play in restoring a "civil society."

So, we have a guy who rails against informing teens through Sex Education about the perils of STDs and effective contraception, and we have a guy who believes the the government should regulate societal behaviours to make us all conform to his standards. Lovely.

I think that they misnamed their little institute; the name should not be the National Fatherhood Initiative; but rather the National Fascism Initiative. Seems more appropriate...doncha think?

Such well spoken sorts are running the country these days. It must make Joseph Goebbels smile from Hell.