My psychiatrist said that my problem is that I think that sex is dirty.
"Yeah," I told him.
"It is if you're doing it right."
Posted on 11/04/2005 2:43:52 PM PST by Coleus
To: National Desk
Contact: Melissa Nickle of Project Reality, 847-729-3298 or melissa@projectreality.org
GLENVIEW, Ill., Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In the midst of a national Abstinence Education Evaluation Conference being sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week, abstinence educators are calling for an investigation of the questionable content and ethical concerns with comprehensive sex education programs being supported with government money. Rather than allowing abstinence educators to follow the conference agenda, an organization called Housing Works sabotaged this morning's session with a 10-minute demonstration attacking abstinence education and Claude Allen, the deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to the point that security needed to be called to restore order. In addition, it has been revealed that individuals representing the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and other nationally known abstinence education opponents, are present at the meeting.
Prior to the start of the conference attendees had been informed that SIECUS and other abstinence opponents might launch an attack on this conference in an attempt to deflect attention away from questionable and unethical studies on comprehensive sex education programs. One such study is on the Focus on Kids program that evaluated children as young as age nine on condom use. However, it was never made public that SIECUS would have representation at the conference. Representatives from Project Reality are present at the conference and able to report first-hand information about the current happenings.
SIECUS and the CDC have a record of recommending curricula with extremely graphic content such as the use of grocery items like grape jelly being used as lubricants (Becoming a Responsible Teen), condom relay races, condom practice and fantasizing during classroom time, a homework assignment to go shopping for condoms, and how-to instructions for oral sex (Becoming a Responsible Teen, Be Proud! Be Responsible!, Get Real About AIDS). Focus on Kids, a curriculum for 9-15-year-olds, assigns teens to create a list of ways to be close to a person without having intercourse, including, "body massage, bathing together, masturbation, sensuous feeding, fantasizing, watching erotic movies, reading erotic books and magazines."
"The content of these programs and exposing children as young as age nine to studies on sexual practices calls into question who authorized and recommended these programs in the first place," stated Libby Gray Macke, director of Project Reality. "Once again, SIECUS and other comprehensive sex ed advocates prefer to attack successful programs rather than have the content of their own recommended programs exposed. We hope that the GAO will investigate these programs to ensure that children are not exposed to these dangerous programs."
Abstinence opponents like SIECUS claim that abstinence programs have not been proven successful despite the many studies that support abstinence education across the country, including Northwestern University Medical School's high-quality evaluations on Project Reality's programs. Both the Game Plan evaluation and Navigator initial results have indicated that survey data presents clear and convincing evidence that adolescents who participated in an abstinence education program shifted their attitudes towards a stronger belief in the value of abstinence and a greater commitment to practice abstinence until marriage. In addition, it shows that the abstinence message can reach youth who are already sexually active. For example, in the Game Plan evaluation post-test, 83 percent of teens agreed/strongly agreed that a person who has been sexually active is able to choose abstinence for the future vs. the pre-test figure of 48 percent. The Navigator initial results were almost identical with 83 percent post-test vs. 45 percent pre-test. In addition, numbers dramatically increased in both evaluations when asked if abstinence is a healthy choice. Game Plan results showed an increase from 57 percent pre-test to 87 percent post-test in the agree/strongly agree category and Navigator results increased from 54 percent pre-test to 82 percent post-test respectively. Visit http://projectreality.org/reality/teachers/index.php?id=38 to see evaluation results.
Project Reality, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has been a pioneer in the national field of adolescent health education since 1985. Funded in part by grants from the Illinois Department of Human Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Project Reality specializes in the development, teaching and evaluation of abstinence programs in the public schools. Project Reality serves middle and high school students, youth groups and parents with their abstinence and character education programs such as Game Plan, Navigator, I Can Do That! and Parent Power. During the 2004- 2005 school year, more than 100,000 students in approximately 525 schools throughout the state of Illinois were served through Project Reality programs and 20,000 additional students will be served during the 2005-2006 school year in the District of Columbia, Florida and New Mexico.
Y'know, for some us, abstinence is our only choice.
Best investment ever? Left handed mouse.
Maybe only married, with the lights out?
No pleasure is allowed, but guilt is encouraged.
My psychiatrist said that my problem is that I think that sex is dirty.
"Yeah," I told him.
"It is if you're doing it right."
FYI, GLSEN's report in review of the public schools. They also had access to the student's data. To what extent, I don't know.
Schools get graded by GLSEN and have access to program funding by GLSEN to implement their agendas.
Now here is the funny part. GLSEN makes money available to fund programs. GLSEN also either supplies the resources or gets a third party to 'donate' to supply the resources (usually some church for the endorsement appearance).
So, if the money is not needed for the programs because the program comes funded....where does the money go?
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A Policy Analysis of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Safer Schools Issues
Jacob Wilcock and Rachel Metz, Summer Policy Interns in the Washington, DC ^ | The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Posted on 09/09/2005 11:15:53 AM EDT by Calpernia
State of the States
2004
A Policy Analysis of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)
Safer Schools Issues
Moral Absolutes Ping.
I keep trying to get away from my computer and quit pinging out these articles. Last one for tonight, I promise. SEICUS is a very, very evil organization; they've been around for quite a while.
People - especially parents - need to really wake up to the Sex Positive assault on childrens' innocence. Add to this the 9th Circuit's decision that you parents have no say in the psychological sexual molestation of your children, and that means a whole generation of kids sexualized at an early age - by the State! Why do you think they want to turn little children into sex fiends?
Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.
Keep up the great work with the ping list jeremiah, the list's articles usually anger me at times but i am glad that you do it. Its nice to know whats going on around out there.
It's a thankless task, alerting a whole bunch of people to (usually) bad news. At least you can't see me in person and get mad at ME! :-)
If many conservatives had known what the plans and devices of those who promote evil were a long time ago, things would not be this bad now. Information, the light of truth - and then the courage and character to fight it - are what we need know. "Know thine enemy" is essential.
People have wanted to stay in their comfortable little zones way, way too long. Too much TeeVee, movies, shopping, hiding one's head in the sand. I don't mean to say that such things are wrong! But to spend one's life focused on consuming and personal comfort and enjoyments while society is crumbling around - that's not smart or wise. It's like someone sitting in a house afire, who just wants to keep sitting on the couch with the remote in their hand, saying, "Okay, I'll take care of the fire in a minute. Just let me have one more piece of pizza and check the other channels for a minute."
Good call!
Glad to see someone caught this story and posted. My eyes are bugged out. The third grade sure has changed since I was a student!
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