Every year, Unitarian Universalists and members of the United Church of Christ come to Washington, DC, to advocate for Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
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Our Whole Lives teaches children and youth about values-based sexuality education—at church.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education
"Most churches would not welcome a conversation about sexuality, but Unitarian Universalism (UU) does, and it is because we have a deeply held understanding that our faith, our religious life, needs to be grounded in real lived experience. That, in some sense, is at the heart of Unitarian Universalism.
"In our national life these days, there's a very different approach that is being promoted...which your tax dollars are helping to fund. In the course of the last ten years, the United States has spent over a billion dollars promoting abstinence-only sexuality education. The facts and the experts all agree. Comprehensive sexuality education is the most appropriate kind of sexuality education to offer our young people. 65% of young people have sex by the age of 18. 'Just say no' didn't work that well in the Garden of Eden and it is not working today."
—Rev. William G. Sinkford
President, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)
The Unitarian Universalist Association has long been an advocate of age-appropriate, medically accurate, comprehensive sexuality education. The UUA's Washington Office for Advocacy has worked for years to pass the Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act. The REAL Act would create the first federal funding stream for evidence-based, age appropriate, comprehensive sexuality education. UU youth, young adults, and adult allies travel to Washington, D.C. every year to lobby for the REAL Act during our annual Sexuality Education and Advocacy Training (SEAT).
We not only advocate for comprehensive sexuality education, we also teach it. The UUA, in partnership with the United Church of Christ, designed and teaches an acclaimed comprehensive sexuality education program that has been widely recognized as a model in the field. The curriculum, Our Whole Lives, is taught in many UU congregations across the nation.
We invite you to learn more about Unitarian Universalism and comprehensive sexuality education.
For more information contact la_womensissues @ uua.org.
Last updated on Thursday, October 23, 2008.
