SIECUS’ Community Advocacy Project has tracked over 700 attacks on sexuality education since 1992. Parents, teachers, and school boards have battled over the amount of information to give students, the appropriate age to teach students, and the underlying messages that a program should convey.
Opponents of sexuality education take many forms—from large, nonprofit organizations with the broad mission of promoting conservative values to small for-profit distributors of abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula and materials.
Over the past few years the abstinence-only-until-marriage message and its supporters have received media attention and have developed a presence on the Internet. Existing organizations have become more visible and new organizations have formed to focus on abstinence-only-until-marriage.
This Fact Sheet on Opponents of Comprehensive Sexuality Education contains a list of diverse national organizations that oppose comprehensive sexuality education and/or promote strict abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. It is designed to provide a brief overview of the mission of each organization, the position it takes on sexuality education, and the resources it provides to the public.
All quotations are from the organizations’ own published materials or Internet sites.
This Fact Sheet was developed and compiled by Martha Kempner, SIECUS education coordinator, and Dana Arnberg and Amy Bracksmajer, SIECUS interns.
(Published in the SIECUS Report, Volume 28, Number 2 - December 1999/January 2000)
P.O. Box 1350
Stafford, VA 22555
Phone: 540-659-4171
Web site: http://www.all.org
Mission Statement
“The philosophy of the American Life League is based on the truth that each and every preborn child, from fertilization on, is a human being who is entitled to both social and legal protection. The ultimate goal of the pro-life movement is to amend the U.S. Constitution.”1
Key People
Judie Brown, president
History
Founded 1979
Sexuality Education Position
“ALL will support only educational programs that teach sexual morality in the context of leading children toward the practice of virtue and that avoid examining the subject of sex in any concrete, detailed, or descriptive way in the classroom or any other public setting.”2
Publications/Resources
Celebrate Life; Communiqué; Judie Brown Report; books on abortion, birth control, and politics
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
Challenging Children to Chastity; Preparing for Peer Pressure; Sex Education: A Parent’s Right, A Parent’s Responsibility; Sex Is Alive and Well and Flourishing Among Christians; The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality
1015 15th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202/488-7000
Fax: 202/488-0806
Web site: http://www.cwfa.org
Mission Statement
“The mission of the CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline of moral values in our nation.”3
Key People
Beverly LaHaye, president
History
Founded 1979
Sexuality Education Position
“The liberal philosophy has always been that students are going to have sex anyway so we need to make sure they know how and are protected when they make that choice. Though condoms are handed out like candy, kids are never told that condoms are not 100 percent effective against pregnancy, STDs, or AIDS. Abstinence-only-based education is the only reliable form of sex education.”4
Publications/Resources
Family Voice radio program with Beverly LaHaye; E-mail and fax alerts
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
“Abstinence Education”; “Sex Education—Is It Working?”; “Abstinence Education—Gaining Ground”; “Kids and Sex—The Kinsey Connection”
Sex Education in American Schools
P. O. Box 618
Alton, IL 62002
Phone: 618/462-5415
Fax: 618/462-8909
316 Pennsylvania Avenue S.E., Suite 203
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202/544-0353
Fax: 202/547-6996
Web site: http://www.eagleforum.org
Mission Statement
“Eagle Forum stands for the fundamental right of parents to guide the education of their own children.”5
Key People
Phyllis Schlafly, president
History
Founded 1972
Sexuality Education Position
“Schools should not deprive children of their free-exercise-of-religion rights, or impose on children courses in explicit sex or alternate lifestyles, profane and immoral fiction or videos, New Age practices, anti-Biblical materials, or ‘Politically Correct’ liberal attitudes about social and economic issues.”6
Publications/Resources
Phyllis Shlafly Report, Education Reporter
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
Crisis in the Classroom: The Hidden Agendas and Grassroots Opposition
“School District Slapped for Sex Education Program”; “Weaving Character into Sex Education”; “New Sex Ed Guidelines Offer Moral Alternative to SIECUS”; “Vatican Document Provides Parents with Tool to Remove Children from Sex Education”; “Excerpts from: The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality”
Local chapters often participate in school board elections and sexuality education controversies.
801 G Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202/393-2100
Fax: 202/393-2134 fax
Web site: http://www.frc.org
Mission Statement
“In Washington DC, a city often estranged from heart and home, the Family Research Council is an unparalleled organization which focuses its efforts solely on defending the interests of America’s families. FRC provides an alternative voice in the media—a voice for the family and family values.”7
Key People
Gary Bauer, president*
Chuck Donovan, executive vice president
Janet Parshall, national advocate and spokeswoman
History
“The Family Research Council is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization. It was originally founded in 1983, merged with Focus on the Family from 1988-1992, then reorganized as a separate 501(c)3 and incorporated as such in the District of Columbia in October 1992.”8
Sexuality Education Position
“Unfortunately, the broad reach of organizations such as Planned Parenthood and SIECUS has left many school boards and parents thinking that there is no alternative except to teach ‘safe sex.’ But there is an alternative that has shown to be even more effective than ‘safe sex’ in reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases—abstinence.”9
Publications/Resources
Washington Watch, Ed Facts
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
Making Your School Family Friendly
Teen Sex and Save Sex (posters, flyers, fact sheets, and articles)
“Sex Education: What Works?”; “SIECUS Sex Education Guidelines”; “Suffer the Children: Title X's Family Planning Failure”; If Condoms Are So Safe, Then Why Am I...”; “Abstinence Programs Show Promise in Reducing Sexual Activity and Pregnancy Among Teens”; “Promoting Premarital Sexual Abstinence and Responsible Sex Education”; “School Days; Sex Daze”
* Mr. Bauer is currently on leave to explore a run for President of the United States in 2000.
Colorado Springs, CO 80995
Phone: 800/A-FAMILY
Fax: 719/531-3424
Web site: http://www.family.org
Web zine: http://www.boundless.org (for college students)
Mission Statement
“To cooperate with the Holy Spirit in disseminating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to as many people as possible, and, specifically, to accomplish that objective by helping to preserve traditional values and the institution of the family.”10
Key People
James Dobson, Ph.D., president
History
Founded 1977
Sexuality Education Position
“The need for alternatives to the amoral sex education taught in schools today has never been greater. Growing up in a society that tosses sexual messages into virtually every sales pitch and pop song, teenagers are finding it more and more difficult to resist these temptations. Young people need to be taught more than just how to have intercourse without getting pregnant or contracting a disease.”11
“Comprehensive sex education, particularly in the form of ‘values-neutral’ decision making, has been adopted into the classroom. Not only has this not reduced the problem of teenage pregnancy, it is positively correlated to an increase in adolescent sexual activity, abortion, sexually transmitted disease, and accompanying psychological problems.”12
“Focus on the Family believes our kids deserve better. By abstaining from intercourse until marriage, and then staying faithful to an uninfected partner—one can enjoy sex without the negative health consequences. This is the only true ‘safe sex.’ ”13
Publications/Resources
Focus on the Family Magazine; Citizen Magazine; Citizen Issues Alert; Heartlink Newsletter, daily radio broadcasts
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
Sex, Lies, and the Truth; No Apologies: The Truth about Life, Love, and Sex
Why Condoms Aren’t Safe; Quick Facts on “Safe Sex”; How to Help Your Kids Say “No” to Sex
“Condom Efficacy and Social Policy”; “SIECUS: You Won’t Believe What They Want to Teach Your Children”; “Has Sex Education Failed Our Children”; “What the Bible Really Says About Sex, A Scholarly Response to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States”
Sex Education and Our Children
“The Facts of Life—Abortion” “Abstinence—It Works Every Time”; “In Defense of a Little Virginity”; “‘Safe Sex’ Education Is a Good Idea. And So Was the Titanic”
214 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002-4999
Phone: 202/546-4400
Fax: 202/546-8328
Web site: http://www.heritage.org
Mission Statement
“The Heritage Foundation is a research and education institute—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.”14
Key People
Edwin J. Fuelner, president
Robert Rector, senior policy analyst
History
Founded 1973
Sexuality Education Position
Regarding the federal money for abstinence education, Rector was quoted as saying that he “hopes the government’s promotion of abstinence until marriage will be broadened to include unmarried adults, gradually changing American sexual behavior.”15
Publications/ Resources
Policy Review: The Journal for American Citizenship
Sexuality Education Resources/ Activities
“Combating Illegitimacy and Counseling Teen Abstinence: A Key Component of Welfare Reform”; “Congress Must Press Forward with Further Welfare Reforms”; “The Forgotten Crisis: S 1120, Welfare Reform and Illegitimacy”; “Health Care and Welfare: Adoption and Illegitimacy”
4 Family Life Lane
Front Royal, VA 22630
Phone: 800/549-LIFE or 540/635-7884
Fax: 540/636-7363
Web site: http://www.hli.org
Mission Statement
“Human Life International exists to fight these evils—to restore respect for the sanctity of life from the moment of conception through natural death, and to restore the preeminence of the traditional family as paramount in God’s plan. We work to save babies from abortion, to tell women the truth about contraception, to teach chastity to teens, and to fight the insidious onslaught of the population control movement that promotes euthanasia initiatives and world wide ‘family planning.’ ”16
Key People
Father Richard Welch, president
Father Richard Marx, founder
History
Founded 1972
Sexuality Education Position
“HLI stands firmly in opposition to classroom sex education. Although children need some prudent instruction in the biology and physiology of human reproduction, it must take place within the context of the entire body. The reproductive system should receive no more emphasis than the respiratory, nervous, or digestive system. The student doesn’t need reproductive information repeated throughout 12 years of schooling.”17
Publications/Resources
HLI Report, Deacon’s Circle, and Seminarians for Life
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
Chastity In and Out of Marriage; Fighting Sex Education in Schools; Sex Ed & Contemporary Moral Decadence; Sex Education: for Good or for Evil?; The Scourge of Sex Education; The Truth and Meaning of Sex Education
Are Virgins Out of Date?; Educating in Chastity; Exposing SIECUS; Sex and the Education of Our Children; The Evils of Sex Education
No! No! It Is a Sin!; Sex Education in the Schools: Tried but Untested.; Sex Education the Final Plague; What’s Wrong with Sex Education?
Their Plans for Your Children
“Condom Nation: Government Sex Education Promotes Teen Pregnancy”; “Education Before the Age of Reason”; “Education in Love and Sexuality”; “Promiscuity and Socialist Eugenics”; “Questions and Answers about School-Based Clinics”; “Sanity, Sex Ed and Chastity”
P. O. Box 4919
Austin, TX 78765
Phone: 800/892 9484
Fax: 512/ 328-6269
Web site: http://www.medinstitute.org
Mission Statement
“Driven by medical, educational, and other scientific data, The Medical Institute informs, educates, and provides solutions to medical professionals, educators, government officials, parents, and the media about problems associated with sexual transmitted disease and nonmarital pregnancy.”18
Key People
Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., M.D., founder and president
History
Founded 1992
Sexuality Education Position
“The only 100 percent effective way to avoid nonmarital pregnancy and STD infection is to avoid sexual activity outside of a mutually faithful lifelong relationship—marriage. The Medical Institute believes there is a new sexual revolution underway—one based on science, built on character, and bridged through education.”19
Resources/Publications
Sexual Health Update (quarterly newsletter)
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
Sexual Health Today
Just Thought You Oughta Know
National Guidelines for Sexuality and Character Education; Abstinence Because; STDs; The Facts; Condom Sense; Express Yourself; Sex: Been There Done That, Now What?; STDs: The Facts; Stretching the Truth
801 East 41st Street
Sioux Falls, SD 51705-6027
Phone: 888/577-2966
Fax: 605/335-0629
Web site: http://www.abstinence.net
Mission Statement
“The National Abstinence Clearinghouse is an alliance of nationally known educators formed to promote the appreciation and practice of sexual abstinence. The NAC provides a resource center that distributes information on abstinence programs, curriculums, and speakers.”20
Key People
Leslee J. Unruh, president
History
Founded 1997
Sexuality Education Position
“Sex Education Teaches Sex. Abstinence Education Teaches Love.”21
Resources/Publications
National Abstinence Clearinghouse Newsletter
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
Directory of Abstinence Resources (available in Christian or public school versions)
Activities
The National Abstinence Clearinghouse provides technical assistance to members interested in more information about abstinence programs, products, and speakers.
c/o Focus on the Family Public Policy Department
P. O. Box 536
Colorado Springs, CO 80901-0536
Phone: 719/548-4537
Fax: 719/531-3338
Mission Statement
“The role of NCAE is to:
Key People
Peter Brandt, director (Mr. Brandt is also manager of the Issue Response Department of the Public Policy Division of Focus on the Family.)
History
“The National Coalition for Abstinence Education (NCAE) was formed in early 1997 as an ad hoc coalition dedicated to insuring that the Title V abstinence education program is implemented consistent with the letter and spirit of the law.”23
Sexuality Education Position
“NCAE’s membership consists of over 60 independent national, state, and local organizations with a long-standing commitment to the abstinence-centered education message and the abstinence-only ideal.” 24
Sexuality Education Resources/Activities
SIECUS Title V Survey Report Will Provide False Information to Policy Makers
“NCAE graded each state’s compliance relative to congressional intent and sound abstinence education principles in 12 different categories. A subsequent report card will grade actual program expenditures.”25
c/o New Jersey Physicians Resource Council
P.O. Box 131
Fanwood, NJ 07023
Phone: 877/236-5772
Fax: 908/322-4293
In February 1999, the National Consortium of State Physician’s Resource Councils released and widely distributed a research report entitled “The Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy, Abortion and Birth Rates in the 1990s: What Factors Are Responsible.”
According to the report: “Programs in safer sex education and condom distribution have not reduced the out-of-wedlock birthrates among sexually experienced teens. It appears possible that programs aimed at producing abstinent behavior have been more successful than programs aimed at increasing safer-sex practices in reducing unintended births to adolescents.” 26 This report has been discredited by several prominent researchers.
The National Consortium of State Physicians Resource Council is described as “a network of the 13 state organizations” and “an association of more than 2,000 health professionals who are dedicated to bringing accurate medical data to public health officials and policy makers.” 27
SIECUS was unable to find any more information about the Consortium such as national office location, contact information, or personnel. Physician Resource Councils do exist in several states including Alabama and New Jersey. The New Jersey Physician Resource Council was responsible for distributing the report. Information that SIECUS has received suggests that there may be some relationship between these state Physician Resource Councils and the Physician Resource Council sponsored by Focus on the Family.28
P. O. Box 1350
Stafford, VA 22555
Phone: 540/659-4171
Fax: 540/659-2586
Web site: http://www.all.org/stopp
Mission Statement
“We intend to cause such discontent within Planned Parenthood programs that it will have no choice but to close its doors and get out of town.”29
Key People
James W. Sedlak, director
History
STOPP is a division of the American Life League that has “led the fight” since 1994.30
Sexuality Education Position
“STOPP endorses all nonviolent activity which is in accord with the laws of God. We support the no exception legislation position of ALL. We believe all these activities are necessary and must be joined with an all-out assault on the failed sex ed programs of Planned Parenthood if we are to restore the family to its true place and protect our children.”31
Sexuality Education Resources
1999 Summary and Analysis of Planned Parenthood’s Operation in the United States; A Study of the Contraceptive Business at Planned Parenthood; Defeating Planned Parenthood’s Public School Sex Education Programs; Countering Planned Parenthood’s Plans for Your Community; Defeating Government’s Funds for Planned Parenthood; Parent Power
American Family Association
Suffer the Children is a video tape produced by the American Family Association.
It is a direct counter to It’s Elementary; Talking About Gay Issues in
School, a film by Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen. The American Family
Association says about It’s Elementary: “A pro-homosexual bombshell has
been fired into our children’s elementary schools. It’s designed to
accomplish three goals: (1) subvert our children’s innocence; (2) turn
them from beliefs and values you hold dear; and (3) indoctrinate them with
false moral teachings.”32
Order video from American Family
Association, P. O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, MS 38803; Phone: 603/844-5036; Web site:
http://www.afa.net
Campus Crusade for Christ
Why Wait; Right From Wrong; The Secret of Loving; Skeptics Who
Demanded a Verdict; The Teenage Q and A Book; Josh McDowell’s One Year
Book of Family Devotions; Josh McDowell’s One Year of Youth Devotions
Order these books from Campus Crusade for Christ, 100 Sunport
Lane, Orlando, FL, 32809; Phone: 407/826-2000; Web site: http://www.ccci.org
The National Coalition of Christian Educators/Citizens for Excellence in Education
This organization offers assistance to parents who wish to have
an “opt-out” policy implemented in their schools. Opt-out
policies allow parents to remove their children from sexuality education if
they feel the information is inappropriate.
P. O. Box 3200, Costa Mesa, CA
92628; Phone: 714/251-9333; Web site: http://www.nace-cee.org
P. O. Box 356
Longmont, CO 80502-0356
Phone: 800/909-WAIT
Fax: 303/776-0715
http://www.friendsfirst.org
Mission Statement
“The Colorado Coalition for Abstinence Education, Inc. dba [doing business as] FRIENDS FIRST supports youth and families in making healthy life choices based on a community model of relationship education and abstinence until marriage.”33
Curricula Produced/Distributed
WAIT Training (Why Am I Tempted) is a curriculum for fifth through twelfth grade students with between two and 35 classroom sessions.
Videos Produced/Distributed
Me, Myself & I; Just Do It?; Get On Line; Virtual Relationships; From Here to There (Order by calling 800/349-6884.)
Additional Materials
“The FRIENDS FIRST® peer support network is a collaborative effort between the school and the community to offer ongoing support for sexual abstinence to preadolescents and teens. As a peer mentoring model, the STARS (Self Control, Trust, Abstinence, Responsibility, and Self Respect) mentor younger teens in the art of relationships that avoid drug and alcohol abuse, and sexual intimacy.”34
P. O. Box 97
Golf, IL 60029
Phone: 847/729-3298
Fax: 847/729-9744
Web site: http://www.project-reality.pair.com
Mission Statement
“Project Reality has been a pioneer in the national field of adolescent health education, teaching and evaluating abstinence-centered programs in public schools since 1985. This 501(c)3 not-for-profit educations organization offers curricula, teacher training workshops, seminars, and materials promoting abstinence until marriage.
Key People
Kathleen Sullivan, executive director
Curricula Produced/Distributed
Choosing the Best,** seventh through ninth grade, five sessions; Facing Reality, ninth through twelfth grade, five sessions; I Can Do That, fifth through eighth grade, currently being written.
Videos Produced/Distributed
First Comes Love; Everyone Is NOT Doing It; Masquerade; No Second Chance; Earliest Days of Life; Windows to the Womb; If You Love Me, Show Me (in English and Spanish)
Additional Materials
Series of booklets by George B. Eager including: Understanding Your Sex Drive and Love and Dating
*“The original name of Project Reality was Project Respect, which was a subsidiary of the Committee on the Status of Women run by [Kathleen] Sullivan. Project Respect originally promoted Sex Respect, an abstinence-only curriculum now handled by Respect, Inc.” Respect, Inc. is now a separate organization. (From Activists Resource Kit, Political Research Associates, 1998.)
** Order Choosing the Best from Choosing the Best, 2470 Windy Hill Road, Suite 300, Marietta, GA 30067; Phone: 770/618-3014.35
P. O. Box 349
Bradley, IL 60915
Phone: 815/932-8389; 815/932-8389
Fax: 815/933-9919
Web site: http://www.sexrespect.com
Mission Statement
“As in all other areas of health education, the Sex Respect program provides a direction toward good health. Just as our drug programs, nutrition lessons, and smoking units are clear in their objectives for influencing healthy behavior, so is the Sex Respect program directional. Teens need a consistent clear message from all responsible adults proclaiming, ‘Sex should be saved for marriage.’ ”36
Key People
Colleen Kelly Mast
Curricula Produced/Distributed
Sex Respect, seventh through tenth grade, three to 10 weeks
Videos Produced/Distributed
Done That? Changed My Ways; Not Doing It; Dating Predator or Partner; But You Can’t Hide; Why I Waited
Additional Materials
Novelty Items including: T-shirts, pins and posters with such slogans as “Pet Your Dog Not Your Date” and “Don’t be Drips, Stop at the Lips”
723 East Jackson
Spokane, WA 99207
Phone: 509/466-8679
Fax: 509/482-7994
Web site: http://www.teen-aid.org
Mission Statement
“Teen-Aid Inc. is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit corporation. The purpose is to promote premarital abstinence and character in schools, through parent teen communication, and now on the Internet! Effective directive abstinence education is a form of family life, or sex education that uses skills and information to reinforce character and family values.”37
Key People
LeAnna Benn and Nancy Roache
Curricula Produced/Distributed
HIV You Can Live Without It, fifth through twelfth grade, two to four hours each year; Sexuality, Commitment & Family, twelfth grade, 15 to 20 hours; Me, My World, My Future, sixth through eighth grade, 15 to 20 hours; AEGIS—Character Education, fifth through sixth grades, seven hours.
Videos Produced/Distributed
None
Additional Materials
“Writing An Abstinence Grant for the Novice” by LeAnna Benn
1327 Englewood Drive
Slidell, LA 70458
Phone: 504/649-6894
Fax: 504/781-3180
Web site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows
Mission Statement
“Passion 4 Purity is a group of young adults who are learning how to live God’s standard of purity and real love. We are pursuing purity as a lifestyle and choosing to wait for God’s best.”38
Key People
Cindy Collins
Activities
Local Passion 4 Purity Peer Groups; “Passion 4 Purity members have meetings twice a month which provide a ‘refuge’ as together we understand the awesome gift of God’s ‘real love,’ help each other with our commitment to live a lifestyle of purity, apply truths found in the Bible, reach out to our peers and make a difference in our generation.”39
Resources
Covenant ring and bumper stickers with the slogan; “Bod 4 God, Bought With A Price.”
Message board for members to post and read items
305 Madison Avenue
Suite 1166
New York, NY 10165
Phone: 212/382-1634
Fax: 212/382-2005
Web site: http://www.purelove.org
Mission Statement
“Working in two areas—public awareness and education—the Pure Love Alliance is working to raise human sexuality to its rightful place as the most sacred expression of love between a man and a woman within the bonds of marriage. Our undivided focus is to promote abstinence before and fidelity in marriage.”40
Affiliations
Pure Love Alliance is a project of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity also known as the Unification Church, a religious movement founded by Reverend Sun Myung Moon in 1954.41
Key People
Robert S. Kittle
Personal Abstinence Pledge
“The pure relationship between a man and a woman is a sacred gift from God, to be cherished and honored for the sake of building a true family, healthy society, and a world of peace for future generations. Once that love is consummated it should never be broken. Therefore, from this day forward, I commit myself to:
Activities
Absolute Sex National Tour; The True Sexual Revolution (“300 high school and college students visited 26 cities in 50 hectic days last summer to promote a lifestyle of pure love and sexual abstinence. Lunch-time rallies were held downtown, and evening presentations were given in universities, schools, and community centers”.)43
Resources
PLA Newsletter; PLA Curriculum, 18-chapter abstinence curriculum currently in development; PLA Sample Abstinence Program; Character/Sex Ed Power Point Presentations; Pure Love Slide Show; videos of past PLA events; novelty items including prepaid long-distance phone cards with the PLA pledge
127 Ninth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37234-0152
Phone: 800/458-2772
Fax: 615/251-5933
Web site: http://www.truelovewaits.com
Mission Statement
“True Love Waits is an international campaign designed to challenge students to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.”44
Affiliations
True Love Waits is sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources which is owned and operated by the Southern Baptist Convention.45
Key People
Richard Ross, president
Personal Abstinence Pledge
“Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate, and my future children to be sexually abstinent from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship.” 46
Activities
True Love Waits sponsors rallies at communities across the country. They are often hosted by local faith communities. Some rallies do, however, take place in secular settings including a 1994 rally and display of 210,000 pledge cards on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and a 1999 rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol.
Resources
Christian Sex Education Series Set; Sex! What’s That?; Sexuality: God’s Gift; Until You Say I Do; Holding Out for True Love
Gospel of Sex Video Pack; Pamela’s Prayer
T-shirts, jewelry, music, and pledge cards
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