A Maryland school board has decided its sex-education teachers can no longer tell their students it is best to remain abstinent until they are married.
Before last Wednesday's vote, the language in the Frederick County sex-ed curriculum identified abstinence as “appropriate behavior before marriage.” But on a 6-1 vote, the school board decided to delete the reference to marriage and instead advise that abstinence “is a healthy, safe, and responsible decision for adolescents.”
According to Fox News, the lone dissenter on the board, Linda Naylor, would have preferred to encourage students “to wait for a special person” instead of having sex before marriage.
But Fox says another board member, Steve Crawford, thinks it is unrealistic to tell students to refrain from having sex until they are married — and that linking sex to marriage is a religious belief and, therefore, should not be taught in public schools.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)