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Minneapolis – Tom Prichard, President of the Minnesota Family Council (MFC), today, announced the release of a report for parents and the public on the sex education debate currently raging in the state.
“There’s been a lot of misinformation on the sex ed debate: what is actually taught in abstinence-until-marriage sex education versus comprehensive sex education and what parents actually want. Hopefully, this report will help people understand just what the issues are and what’s in the best interest of children, parents and society,” said Prichard. The report is entitled, “Sex Education: Key Issues and Why Parents Should Get Involved.” It reviews the two approaches to sex education – abstinence-until-marriage and comprehensive-sex education, myths about abstinence-until-marriage education, the controversial nature of comp-sex ed and what parents want from sex education. “Efforts to mandate unhealthy sex education for kids in every public middle and high school in the state were defeated in the last legislative session. Since then the mainstream media and pro-condoms advocates have attempted to undermine the abstinence-until-marriage message in their effort to force a pro-condom and alternative sexual lifestyles message on Minnesota kids across the state,” continued Prichard. “A MFC review of several comprehensive sex education curricula used in Minnesota schools found they contain unhealthy sexual activities. When parents are informed of the unhealthy sex activities in the curricula they reject mandatory comprehensive sex education,” said Prichard. “I believe if all the facts are out there parents will overwhelmingly reject this power grab,” concluded Prichard. The report can be found on the Minnesota Family Council Webpage at www.mfc.org. |
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