[LWalk18]

This attitude is about 40 years old and started with the hippie crowd in the 1960s. Prior to that in this country, morality was considered very much in the interest of the state for the commonly understood fact that an immoral people cannot remain a free people. Morality and freedom are as inextricably linked as mass and gravity.

You cannot expect state imposed lessons on abstinence, often taught by teachers who are openly fornicating, to carry the same weight as that from parents or clergy. Government's role is not to subsidize immorality, but it cannot make people sexually moral or turn back the clock.

[Ignatz]

You cannot expect state imposed lessons on abstinence, often taught by teachers who are openly fornicating, to carry the same weight as that from parents or clergy

Especially if the same teachers are telling straight kids not to have sex, but openly approve of homosexual behavior.