What is the so-called purpose of sexual education? Is it to cultivate adolescents' most weak-willed and self-indulgent characteristics? Do they really need help with that? To be sure, teenage sex is a biological process with attendant biological issues of both underplanned pregnancies and unanticipated STDs. However, there is also always the moral aspect, whether Libs want to acknowledge it or not. I am not talking about the "Jesus will be sad" kind of morality that so many of the Left are so hot and ready to mock at the drop of a hat. I am talking about morality in the sense of one taking seriously the choices that affect the quality of both one's life, and the lives of everyone else around one. This is the moral point of view, and as such, it is non-denominational and non-religious.

It seems plain to me that when someone offers unsolicited instruction on a subject with profound moral implications, one ought to keep the moral aspect at or near the center of one's conversation, as doing anything less is just a more or less indirect form of pimping. While I am fairly confident that most parents are very careful about this, I am not so confident about the the care that all of the time-serving educrats assigned to teaching sex-ed will exercise. Even if a teacher does care enough to consider the moral implications, he or she is administratively and legally hamstrung six ways to Sunday in terms of talking about them. If a teacher truly wants to educate all of his or her class on any subject, then he or she has to make an effort to relate to each and every one of his or her students. But here's the rub: To relate to some students on the matter of sex requires the ability to talk about morality in terms that each student can understand which, for some students at least, will necessarily veer into the religious. "OOPS!" the law of the land says "NO!" to that! The fact is, sex is as much a moral issue as a biological one, and PUBLIC schools are the least well-equipped to deal with morality. At best, public schools can only tell half the story about sex, and only the more trivial half at that.