UI columnist blasts abstinence-only

In a recent column about sex education, Frank McGovern of the UI Argonaut fumed:

The Christian Right is at it again. No, not the church bake sale – you missed that. This is totally going to blow your mind, but once more the obnoxiously powerful evangelical lobby is attacking truth and rationality to push its selfish agenda. A recently released report commissioned by Rep. Henry Waxman , D-Calif., found that more than 170 million tax dollars were wasted this year alone on “abstinence-only” sex education programs.

DFO: If all else fails, attack someone you don’t like, eh, Frank? The Christian right has always been an easy target for someone trying to score points with the ladies on campus. If young Frank had checked a little deeper, however, he would have found that there were flawed assumptions in the study itself and that Liberal Waxman has been on a crusade for years to undermine abstinence-only education. You can read all about it here . Closer to home, the Panhandle Health District has cited Peers Encouraging Abstinent Teens as a big reason for the reduction in teen pregnancies in North Idaho. Methinks I’d rather have teens talk to a PEAK mentor about sex than Waxman or his UI disciple.