Reject the proposed statewide condom/ comprehensive sex education mandate on every Minnesota middle and high school.

Reason 1#: Parents don’t support comprehensive sex education.

FACT: This legislation requires every Minnesota public middle and high school to promote condoms and contraceptives, grades 7 through 12.

FACT: Zogby poll found that parents prefer abstinence education by 2 to 1 over comprehensive sex education once they understand what the programs actually teach.¹

FACT: Comprehensive sex education curricula spend less than 5% of the time teaching on abstinence.² A HHS survey found that the most “balanced” comprehensive sex education curricula they reviewed discussed contraceptives nearly 7 times more than abstinence.³

FACT: Some comprehensive sex education curricula advise students on different flavors and colors of condoms; promote sexual activities like "outercourse", which may include showering together and mutual masturbation as an alternative to sexual intercourse; and spend little to no time discussing the benefits of saving sex until marriage.⁴

FACT: Zogby poll found that parental support for comprehensive sex education support plunged by 40% once parents found out the actual content of comprehensive sex education curricula.⁵

Reject the proposed comprehensive sex education mandate on all Minnesota public middle and high schools! (HF 3731/615 Walker & SF 3349/588 Pappas)

1 Zogby International Poll. 2007. Survey of 1,002 parents with children ages 10-16. Margin of error is =/- 3.2 percentage points.

2 “Comprehensive Sex Education v. Authentic Abstinence: A Study of Competing Curricula”, Heritage Foundation, 2004.

3 “Review of Comprehensive Sex Education Curricula.” 5/07 The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

4 Zogby International Poll. 2007.

5 Zogby International Poll. 2007.