Family Research Council decries government spending while affiliates take in millions

The Family Research Council, a religious-right outfit some watchdog organizations have called an anti-gay hate group, has recently become quite vocal in its opposition to government spending and has called for drastic cuts to social programs. But a survey by The American Independent shows that FRC’s state-based affiliates, called family policy councils, have raked in nearly $6 million in state and federal funds over the last five years to work on their own social programming goals.

Teen ‘virginity pledges’ fail; Colorado shuns federal abstinence-only funds

Abstinence-only education takes another hit in a new study that finds that not only do teens who vow chastity until marriage have premarital sex on par with non-pledgers but that they’re much less likely to use condoms or other forms of contraception.

State Gives Up on Feds’ Peek-a-boo Game on Abstinence Funding

Like tempestuous teenagers, federal lawmakers can’t make up their minds how to fund an abstinence-only program — if at all. So, Colorado took matters into her own hands.

Congress Plays ‘Hide the Salami’ with Abstinence-Only Funding

We may want our kids to “just say no,” but when it comes to doling out abstinence-only funding, Congress isn’t abstaining. In the latest federal budget bill, Congress gives it away. Big time.

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline.

Spared de-funding after an earlier reprieve in June, Title V, Section 510 funding is not without…

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline.

Spared de-funding after an earlier reprieve in June, Title V, Section 510 funding is not without…

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline.

Spared de-funding after an earlier reprieve in June, Title V, Section 510 funding is not without…

SCHIP Veto to Kill Dems’ Abstinence-Only Fix

Proponents of comprehensive sex education scored a small victory yesterday when the U.S. Senate stripped a $100 million provision to fund a controversial abstinence-only grant program that was tacked onto the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill.

But…

Like a Virgin? Teens Think So

While Colorado school districts work to adopt the new science-based sex education standards into their curricula, a new groundbreaking study finds that teens have very loose definitions of “abstinence” and “virginity.”

The Politics of Abstinence: Media Misinformation

Abstaining from sex may be the easy part. Getting the facts right about Colorado’s new sex education law seems to be as mystical as unlocking the ancient secrets of the universe.

A review of media stories over the last…