"Waddaya mean kids don't do it like rabbits?"

Found this via ProLife Blogs;

ACLU Bullies Schools Teaching Abstinence

A California school district is being bullied by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for teaching abstinence education.

The ACLU Chapter of Northern California has written a letter to each of the 40 schools in the Sonoma County School District asking for confirmation that they will stop teaching Free to Be, an abstinence-based sex-ed curriculum. The ACLU claims the curriculum violates the California Education Code by emphasizing abstinence instead condoms.

Valerie Huber, president of the National Abstinence Education Association, said the ACLU is just going by its playbook.

"This is an example of a tactic that the ACLU typically uses — trying to win their suits by out-of-court intimidation rather than actual legal standing," she said. "There's nothing, to our understanding, of California law that prohibits abstinence education as a supplement to the health curricula."

Reports indicate the group has even sent e-mails to school officials with their demands. It's a move Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action, finds troubling.

"The arrogance of the ACLU in trying to micromanage what local school districts are doing is appalling," she said. "It's outrageous and local taxpayers shouldn't put up with an outside advocacy group trying to control their schools."

I don't get it. Abstinence doesn't necessarily have a religious connotation (which is normally the hair going up the butt of the ACLU). Abstinence could be practiced with the idea of "waiting for the right one", it could also be seen as cutting down on chances of catching an STD. Either one of those mindsets should be commended, yet is seems if the schools don't act as if the kids are copulating in every nook & cranny they must be derelict in their performance. I wish some liberals would read this blog on occasion so they might just answer that one for me.

If they could.