Diocese rejects sex-ed leaflets

The Washington Times ^ | 5-19-05 | Jon Ward

[JZelle]

The Diocese of Arlington has criticized newly approved sex-education materials in Fairfax County public schools, saying they ridicule abstinence and marriage. The Fairfax County School Board on May 12 voted 10-1 to approve for 10th-graders two pamphlets -- "Birth Control Facts" and "Abstinence 101." "We would reject both those resources," said Gerri Laird, a coordinator of Education and Training with the diocese's Office for Family Life. "How can you promote abstinence when you talk about sexuality without even talking about marriage?"

[Alia]

The Diocese has made a very clear and lucid point.

I've been quite fortunate these past six months getting to review the vast array of abstinence-based educational material. Truly, I am very impressed. Nonetheless, there are funding issues: Some schools will only fund "some things". Seems to me the school in question in the article is trying to satisfy two sides; but never making the importance of the part in the middle. It's amazing to me to witness, again, a lot of middle-schoolers -- they do want marriage. They do wish to be in love. And they do wish that one partner to bond with lifelong. It is sad this important data is being denied them, no?

Introducing a website: Get the Truth..."Don't Buy the Lies... Save Sex for Marriage

I've seen some of this site's posters in classrooms. Couldn't find the poem I read on a poster on the wall; but it was as true for kids as it is for adults. "Is It Love Or Lust?"