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Action Alert: Tell HHS to stop funding abstinence-only education programs

In April, the Department of Health and Human Services added Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, an abstinence-only education program, to its list of evidence-based pregnancy prevention programs that receive government funding.

May 16, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Junkyard Prophet Profits Mightily

April 3, 2012 No Comment

In the wake of publicity and complaints, Superintendent Jim Stanton of Dunkerton [Iowa] Community Schools has received a verbal lashing from parents at a school board meeting March 13 about an assembly for junior high and high school students presented by the Christian ministry group You Can Run But You Cannot Hide and its musical group Junkyard Prophet.

Dobson: Kids Forced to Learn 'Adult Sex Perverse Behavior'

January 27, 2012 No Comment

Yesterday, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson appeared on a conference call with Champion the Vote, a nominally non-partisan group that focuses on mobilizing Religious Right voters. Dobson spent much of his time on the call criticizing the gay ri…

BHA speech at protest against Nadine Dorries’ abstinence education bill

January 23, 2012 No Comment

Nadine Dorries MP’s proposed Sex Education (Required Content) Bill seeks to secure abstinence education for girls only. BHA responds.

Nadine Dorries’ abstinence education bill withdrawn… but ‘faith’ schools can still teach pupils how to ‘cure gays’

January 23, 2012 No Comment

Nadine Dorries MP has withdrawn her Sex Education (Required Content) Bill, which sought to secure abstinence education for girls only, according to the Guardian. However, this good news comes amid reports that JFS – a state-maintained Jewish school in London – has taught pupils how to ‘cure gays’.

Focus's Cushman Slams Sex-Ed Standards for Promoting Respect for Gay Families, Dubs Bullying Prevention 'Homosexual Promotion'

January 20, 2012 No Comment

Earlier this month, a coalition of health and education groups released new recommended guidelines for sex education in schools, which address topics including sexual orientation, birth control and bullying. The non-binding recommendations have not, un…

Action Alert: Tell Congress to Oppose Funding for Abstinence-Only Education

December 19, 2011 1 Comment

Millions of tax dollars are again being proposed for failed abstinence-only sex education programs.

BHA responds to PSHE Review

December 1, 2011 2 Comments

Today is the final day of the government’s Review of Personal, Social, Health and Economics (PSHE) Education, and the British Humanist Association (BHA) has submitted its response. In it, the BHA has argued for PSHE, including Sex and Relationships Education (SRE), to become a statutory subject, including in primary schools and in Academies and Free Schools.

ADF Slams New York City Over Comprehensive Sex Education

October 31, 2011 No Comment

In a column today, The Alliance Defense Fund’s David Cortman called New York City’s comprehensive sex education plan a case of “inmates running the asylum.” The city is “encouraging schools to use two vetted, evidence-base…

Christian group slammed for ‘dangerous’ and ‘misleading’ campaign against sex education

October 28, 2011 No Comment

Discussions of the Education Bill in the House of Lords became heated last night as prominent children’s rights advocates slammed the Christian Institute for spreading ‘misinformation’ and ‘wicked insinuations’ about amendments relating to inspecting well-being in schools insinuating that proposed changes ‘would force schools to teach five year-olds about sex’.