SBOE Stands Strong Promoting Abstinence Over LGBT Politics After almost a year and a half of advocacy on the part of our team and many others, the elected 15-member Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) decisively voted to finalize abstinence-focused Health standards for K-12 students this past Friday. The sex education strand in the Health standards focus on sexual risk avoidance and does not include the topics of sexual orientation, gender identity, and abortion, even though the far left tried to get these controversial topics added. While some LGBT and abortion activists, like Planned Parenthood, pleaded for so-called comprehensive sex education in June and September of this year, many more health educators, parents, and citizens encouraged the State Board of Education to adopt abstinence focused sex education standards that do not contain LGBT topics. This included over 17,000 messages sent by our supporters in opposition to the radical policies pushed by liberal political activists. |
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