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For Immediate Release: March 5, 2009
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

So, What is the Real Intention of Pittsburgh’s New Sex Ed Curriculum?

(Pittsburgh) – Last week the Pittsburgh School District board approved a new comprehensive sex education program. Students will not only be taught that abstinence is the sure way to avoid pregnancy and disease, but also about contraception, dating and alternative lifestyles. For the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide pro-family group, this raises many concerns. In response, the group has contacted Dr. Jerri Lippert, chief academic officer of the district, and the school board which voted to approve this new program.

“The inclusion of sexual orientation and gender roles in this new curriculum makes it very clear that they will be promoting homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism to impressionable high school students. Many of today’s schools are no longer academic institutions, but social engineering institutions,” noted Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

Additionally the school board has just given a green light to allowing sexually confused males to use the girls’ restroom in the schools and to come to school wearing a dress, make-up and high heels. As noted in the letter to the school board members: “How does such a decision coincide with your district’s “Core Beliefs,” specifically—‘We want maximum academic achievement of all students’ and ‘We want a safe and orderly environment for all students and employees.’”

The letters to Dr. Lippert and the school board included the list of 30 sexual orientations and noted that this decision has nothing to do about teen pregnancy, but everything to do about promoting a dangerous lifestyle. The letters also asked whether students would be given Centers for Disease Control statistics which point to men who have sex with men as the biggest reason for the spread of the HIV virus and that bisexuals create the road for the HIV virus into the heterosexual community. How about CDC stats that show an epidemic of syphilis and gonorrhea among homosexual males?

“Dr. Lippert said the district was not going to promote or condone any lifestyle. They all need to face the fact that the administration and school board of Pittsburgh Public Schools is promoting the homosexual, bisexual and transgender lifestyles—they are telling the kids, ‘Anything goes, it’s all okay.’ The district has just created a very unsafe and unhealthy situation,” Gramley further noted.

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