Massachusetts voters shot it down 25 years ago, but some Democrats in the Massachusetts Legislature want rent control back.
A legislative committee on Beacon Hill plans to consider a bill on Tuesday, January 14 that would once again legalize rent control in the state. Called "An Act Enabling Local Options for Tenant Protections," Massachusetts House Bill 3924 is chiefly sponsored by state Representatives Mike Connolly (D-Cambridge) and Nika C. Elugardo (D-Boston), members of the Legislature's Progressive Caucus.
Is it age-appropriate to introduce 12-year old children to anal sex? Is it medically accurate to encourage students to protect against sexually transmitted infections by using non-microwaveable Saran Wrap as a prophylactic for oral sex? Planned Parenthood thinks so, and so does the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which lists Planned Parenthood's "Get Real" curriculum as in compliance with the state's health frameworks.
In schools across the Commonwealth, "Get Real" and other Comprehensive Sexuality Education curricula like it are used to instruct middle school and high school kids how to participate in dangerous and unhealthy sexual activity. Comprehensive Sexuality Education does not refer to sex education programs in general, but rather to a specific form of graphic, here's-how-you-do-this manual that claims to be "age appropriate and medically accurate." It is designed to change the sexual and gender norms of society, promote high-risk sexual behaviors, and encourage even the youngest of children to experiment sexually.
