Deval Patrick will be abstaining from Abstinence education Funding
I RECEIVED THE MESSAGE BELOW IN E-MAIL. IT SEEMS DEVAL PATRICK THINKS OUR KIDS HAVE NO MORE SELF CONTROL THAN AN ANIMAL...
Your help is again urgently needed on the abstinence education front, calls to the Governor’s office must be made as soon as possible to save funding for abstinence education in Massachusetts. The Governor’s contact information is at the end of this message.
Unless persuaded otherwise, Governor Deval Patrick is turning down funds from the federal government for abstinence education for kids in middle school. Administration officials and Planned Parenthood complain that the funds come with strict guidelines that fail to promote contraceptives. They also point to a recent report (called the Mathematica study) purporting to show that abstinence education doesn’t work.
These common-sense objectives conflict with the politically correct view that kids are just really incapable of understanding the meaning of “no” and the beauty of waiting until marriage. But that’s not what Healthy Futures, the program in Massachusetts that has used the federal grants to teach abstinence to thousands of students in the Commonwealth, has witnessed. See their website at http://www.healthy-futures.org/ to get the real scoop on what happens when the moral capabilities of children are taken seriously.
The National Abstinence Education Association (NEAE) (http://www.abstinenceassociation.org/) has an informative review of the study, the sudy focused on only four education projects out of the many that are funded by the federal government, did not have a representative sample of students, and failed to compare abstinence only programs with “comprehensive” sex education programs which promote supposedly “safe” sex outside of marriage.
Call Governor Patrick today at (617) 725-4000.
Your help is again urgently needed on the abstinence education front, calls to the Governor’s office must be made as soon as possible to save funding for abstinence education in Massachusetts. The Governor’s contact information is at the end of this message.
Unless persuaded otherwise, Governor Deval Patrick is turning down funds from the federal government for abstinence education for kids in middle school. Administration officials and Planned Parenthood complain that the funds come with strict guidelines that fail to promote contraceptives. They also point to a recent report (called the Mathematica study) purporting to show that abstinence education doesn’t work.
These common-sense objectives conflict with the politically correct view that kids are just really incapable of understanding the meaning of “no” and the beauty of waiting until marriage. But that’s not what Healthy Futures, the program in Massachusetts that has used the federal grants to teach abstinence to thousands of students in the Commonwealth, has witnessed. See their website at http://www.healthy-futures.org/ to get the real scoop on what happens when the moral capabilities of children are taken seriously.
The National Abstinence Education Association (NEAE) (http://www.abstinenceassociation.org/) has an informative review of the study, the sudy focused on only four education projects out of the many that are funded by the federal government, did not have a representative sample of students, and failed to compare abstinence only programs with “comprehensive” sex education programs which promote supposedly “safe” sex outside of marriage.
Call Governor Patrick today at (617) 725-4000.
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