October is Sex Education Action Month!

I just saw this video and you have got to check it out!

Seriously? "When you use a condom, it's like you're playing Russian roulette?" If you want to have sex before marriage you "have to be prepared to die, and you'll probably take with you your spouse and one or more of your children?!" Wow... Those are some outlandish statements!

The video is from an "abstinence-only" program. These ideologically-driven programs teach teens about abstinence but withhold life-saving information about birth control, or lie about birth control's effectiveness. Thanks to former President Bush and his friends, students are being told these lies in public schools, and taxpayers are paying for it!

Fortunately, with a pro-choice president and pro-choice leadership in Congress, funding for "abstinence-only" programs has been going the way of the dodo. Of course, anti-choice members of Congress are trying to reinstate funding for "abstinence-only" programs into the health-care reform bill, and no doubt they'll try this in other bills, too.

This is where you come in: There's already a bill in Congress called The REAL Act, which would get age-appropriate, comprehensive sex education into our classrooms. In other words, it will give students all the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves. Tell your member of Congress to support the REAL Act.

October is Sex Education Action month, and there are only a few days left, so take action now!