It’s a given that abstinence-only “sex education” proponents like the Pure Love Alliance are nothing but fronts for religious political extremists intent on injecting their brand of Christian conservative sex negativism into the public schools.
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But what Linda Lutton fails to mention in her otherwise excellent profile of these and other fear-based organizations [July 14] is their reluctance to explain how their wait-until-marriage scare tactics would apply to gay students, who, unless they commute to Vermont, currently are locked out of marriage laws.
If PLA and their ilk truly believe in the cause of keeping kids safe from the alleged dangers of premarital sex, I hope their message includes the same prescriptions for gay youths, often the population most in need of a sex-positive message. But I doubt it.
