Submitted by: Nancy Battle
Radio Commentary WMVV 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, November 22, 2013
Good
morning, Jim. After President Obama said, "Sex Ed for Kindergartners Is
the Right Thing to Do," I remembered that sex education in Georgia was a
big issue in 1992 when the Georgia Sex Education Review Committee met
stiff opposition against mandatory K – 12 sex education that was based on community standards, at that time.
But,
in 1994, the national Centers for Disease Control went far beyond
community standards to publish a five-volume sex education series that adopted international standards and
dropped sex education that was based on traditional morality of
abstinence until marriage. Their focus was on safer sex that would avoid
pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease and AIDS.