Sex Education

Myths and Misconceptions: Behavioral Genetics and Homosexuality
Douglas A. Abbott, Ph.D., Professor of Child Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska, writes about the misconceptions regarding the existence of a "gay gene." September 2007.

Abstinence Until Marriage. or Comprehensive Sex Education
Abstinence Education has been criticized by some as not being "comprehensive" enough. Alysse ElHage writes about the difference between Abstinence Education and Comprehensive Sex Education and why Abstinence education is not only the best alternative, but is more "comprehensive" than Comprehensive Sex Education. May 2007.

Gay Straight Alliance Clubs: How Homosexual Student Organizations Harm our Schools
While claiming to be harmless clubs that offer support to struggling youth and fight harassment, Gay Straight Alliance Clubs promote a message of sex and homosexuality that puts public school students at risk while undermining parental moral and religious teachings. This paper explains why North Carolinians need to be aware of the dangers of GSAs and prepared to develop policies and laws that prevent GSAs from endangering children. November 2006.

Hazardous to Teen Health: The Reality of Comprehensive Sex Education
This paper examines the reality of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and shows why it threatens the overall well-being of young people. Understanding the reality of CSE requires looking beyond the vague and misleading rhetoric used by advocates to the radical ideology it is based upon. It is also important to examine the hazardous messages in some popular CSE curricula. April 2005.

HPV: Why it matters to adolescent sexual health and education
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most important and potentially dangerous STDs of today, especially when it comes to the ongoing debate over adolescent sex education in North Carolina and across the country. As the STD epidemic continues to eat away at the bodies, hearts and minds of teenagers, policy makers and health educators in North Carolina need to acknowledge the serious nature of HPV and look for effective ways to prevent its spread. This paper will present the facts about HPV, discuss why it matters, and show why abstinence from sexual activity until marriage is the only method that can successfully prevent the spread of HPV, as well as other STDs. July 2003.

Medical Accuracy: The Strategy to Undermine Abstinence Education
There is an effort underway to undermine abstinence education by asking for legislation which purports to require "medical accuracy" in information given to teenagers in sex education programs. But this new campaign is not all it appears. This paper exposes the true agenda behind "medical accuracy" legislation and explains why an abstinence-until-marriage curriculum is the most effective means of reducing premarital sexual activity and teenage pregnancy. May 2003.

The Case for Abstinence: Why comprehensive sex education sends the wrong message
This paper discusses the rationale behind North Carolina's Abstinence Until Marriage law which requires that "abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard of behavior for all school-age children" and requires that students be taught that "a mutually faithful monogamous heterosexual relationship in the context of marriage is the best lifelong means of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases." April 2002.

Trashing Abstinence?: Analysis of Senate Bill 515 and House Bill 855
These bills would remove the emphasis on marriage and allow kids as young as kindergarten to be taught that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle. These bills are a reversal of the successful abstinence law passed overwhelmingly by the 1995 session of the General Assembly. April 2001

Sexual Abstinence: The Education Policy Dilemma
There is no subject that has generated more confusion among teens today than sex. Teens say it is all our friends talk about (peer pressure), it is all we see on television, it is all we see in movies and advertising, it is all our favorite groups sing about, and in so many cases our teachers are showing us how (comprehensive sex education). This paper talks about the issues teens deal with in sex and the wrong way and the right way to teach sex education. July 1998