Posted by
Billy on Friday, March 27, 2009 8:15:35 PM
The vast majority of North Carolina school districts teach abstinence until marriage -- but one family advocate in the Tar Heel State says a backdoor approach is under way in the legislature to push an agenda that promotes promiscuity. (
NC's 'Healthy Youth Act' healthy in name only )
Mark Creech, executive director of the
Christian Action League (CAL), tells OneNewsNow that under the proposed bill -- the "Healthy Youth Act" (House Bill 88) -- most students just might get the latter. "Unless parents intervene, seventh- through ninth-graders are going to be instructed on how to use more than a dozen contraceptives, ranging from condoms to 'morning-after' pills," he warns. "This bill is dangerous on several fronts...."
According to Creech, the measure labels so-called comprehensive sex-ed as "abstinence-based."
"...[B]ut this is truly a misnomer," the family advocate argues in a CAL article. "Call it what you will, 'abstinence-based comprehensive sex-ed' is simply a repackaging of the 'safe-sex' approach.
(Why do those on the left believe kids can say no to drugs but not to sex. These souls don't have faith in young people. They must think today's kids are animals.)