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Bradley University to Provide Free Condoms to Students Using Student Health Fees
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.06.11
It’s refreshing to see college students take politically incorrect and counter-cultural positions on sexual matters because to do so risks both hostility and ridicule. Recently a group of courageous and principled Bradley University students risked both to oppose the resolution...
CDC Reports Show Increase in Abstinence
12.02.11
By Leigh Jones, World Magazine Sexual activity and pregnancy among teens is declining Two reports recently released by the Centers for Disease Control show teens are embracing abstinence, despite the prevalence of promiscuity portrayed in music, movies and on television....
Evangelical Academics and the “Bad” War
12.01.11
By Joe Carter, FirstThings.com  “Foes of gay rights are now seen by the press as fighting the bad war, roughly analogous to Vietnam,” wrote Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard. “Pro-lifers are waging the good war, like World War II.”  ...
New York Times on Sex Education
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.28.11
Warning: The following article includes offensive and graphic content. A recent New York Times article titled “Teaching Good Sex,”  fawns over comprehensive sex educator Al Vernacchio, a 47-year-old homosexual Catholic “Sex Scholar” who teaches English and human sexuality at a...
Abstinence Programs Credited With Reducing Teen Birth Rates
By   |   11.22.11
Abstinence education programs are being credited with the good news coming in a new report the CDC issued Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics showing teen birth rates dropping. The birth rate for U.S. teens aged 15-19 years...
DOMA Under Attack in the U.S. Senate
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.11.11
Liberal lawmakers in cahoots with homosexual activists and the Obama Administration will not rest until they’ve perverted every significant cultural institution in ways that will hasten America’s decline. Pro-homosexual “agents of change” masquerading as “educators” have usurped government schools through...
Activity E Carries X Rating
By Fran Eaton   |   11.10.11
Your child goes to class and the teacher opens discussion by saying, “I want you all to think about the things that turn you on.” Then she distributes a handout entitled Activity E: “What Turns You On???” Some students start...
HB 3027 — Ideology Over Research
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.07.11
Illinois State Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago), the original sponsor of the comprehensive sex ed bill (HB 3027) that passed the Illinois State Senate on May 25, 2011 and may be called for a vote soon in the Illinois House, posted...
The High Cost of a Poor Education
11.03.11
Money. It makes the world go round, or so I’ve heard. But when it comes to choice in education, money is usually what brings meaningful change to a screeching halt. As new development s emerge in the Atlanta Public Schools...
More on HB 3027
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.24.11
The problematic and completely unnecessary Comprehensive Sex Ed bill, HB 3027 (Amendments 1 and 3), may be voted on in the Illinois State House this week. This bill is unnecessary because any school district that wants to use a comprehensive...
Sex Education Bill Pending Vote in Veto Session
By David E. Smith   |   10.18.11
Our Illinois state lawmakers will be returning to Springfield next week (October 25th-27th) and in early November (8th-10th) for the annual Fall Veto Session. One of the bills that we are working against is HB 3027 — a bill being...
Atheist and ACLU Defeated! Illinois’ Moment of Silence Law Upheld
By David E. Smith   |   10.12.11
The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand an Illinois law requiring the observance of a moment of silence in Illinois public schools. The High Court declined to hear an appeal of a federal appeals court decision that upheld the law....
Texas School Teacher Violates Student’s Rights
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.23.11
A freshman boy in Ft. Worth, Texas, Dakota Ary, was recently given an in-school suspension and two days out-of-school suspension because he told a classmate that because he’s a Christian, he believes homosexuality is wrong. The German teacher in whose...
09.16.11
By Alicia Constant — World Magazine More Indiana parents are choosing to send their children to private and parochial schools in the state, which has enacted the nation’s largest school voucher program. More than 3,200 students received vouchers to attend...
ACLU Sues Missouri School District for Blocking LGBT Websites
By David E. Smith   |   09.15.11
The ACLU finds itself in the midst of another controversial legal battle, this time in Missouri where they are suing a school district to allow K-12 students to access GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) websites. The ACLU’s Eastern Missouri...
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