Month: September 2011

Vatican Pundit Attacks Sex Ed With Bogus Cross-Cultural Comparisons

According to the US-based Catholic News Service, former feminist and unwed mother Lucetta Scaraffia uses some copiously wonky reasoning to argue that government-mandated sex ed programs are the cause of rampant casual sex, disease and unwanted pregnancy among America’s teens in an August 30 piece in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Scaraffia, a contemporary history…