Tag Archives: sex education

Both Of NYC’s GOP House Reps Endorse Abstinence Only Sex Education

Although neither of them has any say in city government, both of NYC’s GOP members of the U.S. House have come out against the city’s recently approved sex ed curriculum. Reps. Bob Turner (R-Queens, Brooklyn) and Michael Grimm (R-S.I., Brooklyn) joined NYC Parents’ Choice Coalition in lobbying for a change. “Parents had no say in this mandate,” Turner said. “The …

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Ruben Diaz Denounces Sex Education

New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz, who calls himself “Senator Reverend” in his press releases, has come out against NYC’s proposed sex education curriculum. In matters involving intimacy and human sexuality, parents have the right and the responsibility to be the primary educators. Many parents teach their children that these are private topics not to be discussed casually or in …

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Abstinence Works Because It Works

Despite all the data to contradict his position, Texas Gov. Rick Perry sits there and shamelessly tells the show’s moderator that “abstinence education works.” Watch this clip for a horrifying preview of the next year in GOP politics. (My apologies for the ad at the beginning.)

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NEW YORK: Catholic Archdiocese Opposes Sex Education In Public Schools

It may be hard to believe, but sex education is currently not available to all public high school students in New York City. Each school is allowed to decide whether to offer the courses and only about half do. Bloomberg wants to change that, much to the outrage of busybodies from the Catholic Church. In the first serious challenge to …

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Linda Harvey: End All Safer Sex Education

“This is the statistical face of deviance, out-of-control lust, and desperation. Most of the campaigns in this country to prevent HIV/AIDS do not take a strong stand against these unnecessary behaviors, but instead, talk around them and try to teach people to manage their misbehavior better. The numbers tell the story: it’s not working. What is that old definition of …

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Savage Vs. Gallagher, Round 2

“I do not intend to ‘educate your college students,’ Maggie. Your college students—the offspring of NOM supporters—are being ‘educated’ at Brigham Young, Liberty University, Bob Jones, Seattle Pacific University, and other Christianist madrassas. My college tours typically take me to secular institutions of higher learning where the kids were hooking up and having sex long before my visit to campus. …

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MTV Picks Up Dan Savage’s Show

MTV has committed to ten episodes of Dan Savage’s sex advice show, Savage U. The show will follow Savage as he travels across the country taking personal questions from students while on tour of college campuses. “He could be our Dr. Drew,” Janollari said MTV’s head of programming David Janollari of Savage and the new show. “He’s able to do …

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Liberty Counsel: Sex Education Will Bring About The Destruction of America

Matt Barber and Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel continue their campaign of outrageous lies against openly gay Safe Schools czar Kevin Jennings.

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Family Research Council: Sex Education Will Teach Kids To Be Gay

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NEW YORK: Catholic Archdiocese Forbids Sex Ed In School Building Leased To City

An all-girls Catholic high school in Manhattan will be closing this month, after which the city will take over the building to create an arts magnet middle school. But under the city’s lease agreement with the Archdiocese of New York, the new school is forbidden from teaching any of the sex and HIV education classes required by state law. Under …

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Wisconsin DA: I’ll Arrest Any Teacher That Attempts Sexual Education

Juneau County, Wisconsin District Attorney Scott Southworth is threatening teachers with arrest if they attempt to teach sexual education in their classrooms, as is required by a new law. The state law, called the Healthy Youth Act, took effect in March. Starting this fall, it requires schools with sex-education courses to teach students medically accurate, age-appropriate information, including how to …

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Abstinence-Only Education Is Back

Not only did the Senate Finance Committee kill the public option yesterday, they voted to restore funding to federal abstinence-only sex education programs, despite overwhelming evidence that kids who receive such instruction tend to have sex earlier and get knocked up at younger ages. A Senate committee voted Tuesday night to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for …

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Abstinence Fail: Drinking Bleach Kills HIV

Horrified by bizarre myths about HIV and pregnancy that are apparently believed by some Florida teenagers, lawmakers are moving to ditch their “abstinence only” program and overhaul sex education in the state’s public schools. Florida teens who believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy have prompted lawmakers to push …

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Prom Night II: The STDs

Remember that recent study proving that kids who pledge abstinence until marriage actually have “significantly more unsafe sex” than regular kids? Apparently that result is lost on Oklahoma’s Agape Project, judging by their new billboard campaign. (Photo via JMG reader M.A.)

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Duh Of The Day: Bristol Palin Thinks Abstinence Education Is “Unrealistic”

And she’s as well-spoken as her mother.

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