Grading Schools’ Abstinence Efforts
A National Public Radio report about results from the first major national study of abstinence-only education.
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“If Supreme Court Backs Arizona’s Anti-Immigration Law, What Do Churches Do?”
Read a June 13, 2012, story at Ethics Daily about how the Arizona anti-immigration law affects churches and faith leaders.
“Doctors denounce abstinence-only education”
Read an Associated Press story, “Doctors denounce abstinence-only education.” It’s posted by MSNBC.
OurJewishCommunity.org
OurJewishCommunity.org is building an online congregation, hoping to create a modern Jewish experience.
“Just Don’t Do It! Are we teaching our kids way too much about sex? Or not nearly enough?”
Read a U.S. News and World Report article that asks whether schools are giving students too much – or too little – information about sexual matters. The magazine says California, Pennsylvania and, most recently, Maine have turned down federal money for abstinence-only curricula so they can teach what they believe is best.
Phil and Elise Okrend
Phil and Elise Okrend are co-founders of MixedBlessing, a company in Raleigh, N.C., that produces interfaith cards, music and other holiday items. The Okrends, both Jewish, also are co-authors of the children’s book Blintzes for Blitzen (MixedBlessing, 1996).
Arizona v. United States
See the Supreme Court of the United States blog’s comprehensive coverage of the Arizona v. United States case.
“Faith and Politics: How the ‘Moral Values’ Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together”
Written by John Danforth (Viking Adult, 2006). Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri and an ordained Episcopalian minister, speaks out against the conflation of political agendas with religious views and the religious right’s focus on wedge issues.
Teen Births
The National Center for Health Statistics posts statistics about teen births.