Utah's legislature gave final passage this week with a Senate vote of 19-10 to an abstinence-only sex-ed bill that forbids discussion of homosexuality even if the student asks, FOX13 reports:
After the new bill goes into effect, the teaching of sex education in Utah classrooms has to be about not having sex before marriage and fidelity within marriage. Teachers cannot advocate the use of contraceptives anymore and they cannot talk about homosexuality, even if asked by a student.
HB 363 would also allow any Utah school to opt out of sex education and would ban students from talking to their teachers about pre-marital sex.
“My problem is that we're having essentially complete strangers teaching our children, who frankly we don't know who they are and exactly what they're teaching, with the most sensitive issues that do belong in the home,” said one Republican Senator during Tuesday's floor debate.
Opponents of the bill, most of them Senate Democrats, say HB 363 is out of touch with reality.
Watch FOX13's report on the debate and passage, AFTER THE JUMP…
