Rush Limbaugh's Condoms: The New Diploma

In Rush Limbaugh’s "Condoms: The New Diploma", Limbaugh claims students are being encouraged to have sex through the mass distribution of condoms during school. Limbaugh aims to sway our opinion on this topic. Emphasizing the point that students should be taught abstinence by the schools instead of the distribution of condoms.
Therefore he claims that his opponents, condom distributors, argue that teens are going to have sex anyway so why not give them protection. Thus encouraging them to by handing them a condom. Limbaugh continues with an analogy to persuade us into agreeing with him, by asking why schools stop at sex, claiming they can assume that students are going to take drugs and smoke, so why aren’t we distributing untainted drugs and low-tar cigarettes during school too. Let’s show kids the right way to smoke and do drugs before they go out and use …show more content…
Limbaugh's argument is like saying that because driving is risky, students should be taught to not drive at all. Encourage them to walk wherever they want to go, and to ride their bicycles to reach further distances because driving is too risky. Not that this analogy is any better, but no sane person would accept this solution to reckless driving. We teach students how to drive safely so that they can limit the risk of an accident or the danger of killing themselves or anyone else while driving a vehicle. Therefore why would we teach them to never have sex and to be abstinent, when eventually they are going to have sex. Although it might not be during high school, they need to know the consequences and the safety precautions that go along with having sex, whether it's preventing pregnancy, or it is teaching them how to prevent the spread of disease. If students are not taught this in high school, and their parents aren't willing to discuss this with them, when will they