There was a time when children weren’t a biological terrorist threat.

In an effort to curtail the amount of ancient diseases from making a re-emergence among us, California legislators have proposed SB 227, a bill that would eliminate the ability for parents to exempt their children from getting vaccinations based on their religious beliefs. The only exception being if the child would come to harm if he or she receives the shot.

SB 227 passed its third Senate Judiciary Committee and will go into the Senate Appropriations Committee for cost evaluations.

This is certainly a step in the right direction, but it’s counterproductive to its purpose. The point is not to force people to vaccinate their children, but to educate these jackasses who think that vaccines cause autism or developmental growth.

This bill, though behind well intentions and needed, should be based more on educating the people about the truth about vaccines.

By forcing parents to vaccinate their kids, it causes more animosity within the idiotic anti-vaxxer movement.

Yeah, it’d be easier to crucify the profligates, but then that would cause a martyrdom that would bolster the ranks of the anti-vaxxers.

This is as bad as the Food Babe movement.

What we as a society need is a clear, concise education on the reality of vaccines and their benefit.

Knowledge is power and it is the only way to really touch base with the ignorance surrounding the anti-vaccination movement; a way to break down the science and the studies behind it, while not overwhelming the average American with jargon. Then and only then can we traverse through our daily lives without the fear of dying of the Black Plague.

In reality, we can apply that to many aspects of American life. Things like abortion, sexual education and even women’s rights, but that’s one prong of this educational trident.

Hopefully the finer points of this bill can be cleaned up to reinforce in a positive way, so that in the end, we don’t force parents to vaccinate their children, but that they do it on their own.

Or we can just round them up, put them on some remote island and let them succumb to whatever disease they chose to ignore.