This post is a repost of an article I wrote in my column, Sex in the Suburbs, for the Federal Way Mirror.
I just returned from Washington, D.C., where I was privileged to be part of a Sexuality Education Advocacy Training developed by three faith groups.
We came together from all over the country to be a religious voice for comprehensive sexuality education.
Sexuality education is a moral issue, and religious communities and organizations come down with varying degrees of tolerance. A loud and heavily government-funded (more than $1.5 billion over the past two decades) religious voice has proclaimed that the only acceptable teachings are "abstinence-only" until marriage. This same voice makes wildly inaccurate claims about comprehensive sexuality education, scaring otherwise intelligent adults into withholding information from our youth — and that is killing people.
