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European committee upholds pro-abstinence sex education program

By Alliance Alert

LifeSiteNews: "The body that polices compliance with the European Social Charter, a human rights document binding on all states within the Council of Europe, has deemed a pro-abstinence sex education program used in many Croatian schools to be acceptable. Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel Roger Kiska represented the organization that produced the curriculum, which provided his briefs to the government of Croatia to aid in its defense of the program, preferred by the vast majority of Croatian families over a radically leftist option. 'Parents should be the ones responsible for making educational choices for their children - not leftist activist groups,' said Kriska. 'We are pleased that the European Committee for Social Rights has upheld the right for parents to choose an option that does not violate the core religious and moral beliefs of these families.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).