Pro-abortion clergy group lobbying Albany for "sex education"

This from today's Journal News. The usual suspects.

Clergy push for sex-education law

ALBANY - Members of Concerned Clergy for Choice and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, who said they believe in Scripture but also science, asked lawmakers yesterday to support legislation for "age-appropriate, medically accurate" sex education.

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"As a member of the clergy and a person of faith I believe in Scripture, but I also believe in science," Ross said.

The bill passed the Assembly 130-11 on March 27. It is sponsored by Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, D-Manhattan, and Sen. George Winner, R-Elmira. The bipartisan Assembly vote will help the bill in the Senate, Winner said, but much work has to be done to gauge the support it will receive.

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Dennis Poust of the New York State Catholic Conference said his group opposed the bill.

"We believe in science, too, and science tells us that no girl or woman will get pregnant if she doesn't have sex," he said. "Science tells us that contraception frequently fails. Science tells us abstinence is the only sure way to avoid a pregnancy."

It's too soon to say whether abstinence-only education doesn't work, Poust said. Teaching kids about contraception gives them a message that having sex is OK, he said.

Comments

[PATRICIA GODFREY]

After many years of teaching, I can assure you that there is always an unspoken message being sent out to a class. If a teacher is training the kids in condom use,etc.
then the message is that somehow premarital sex will somehow "work out OK."
Unfortunately, it ends up destroying lives in more ways than one. There's no place for that"message" in any school.

[Eileen Peterson]

What do you say to the young ladies dying of cervical cancer and if they make it, who will be infertile for life all because they followed the sex education teachings, used the pill and condoms and wound up in this hellish nightmare. There is no condom for the heart and Planned Parenthood is the number one predator of our children. Protect you children. Talk to them about those who make a fortune and a killing from their sexual activity that will leave them with a broken heart.