God forbid we use science

[Jester]

I still don't want my sons school teachers being required to teach them about sexual predators.

As with all sex ed, there is an opt-out clause, at least in most places. The "nanny state" has not yet gone so far as to force your kids to learn about inappropriate touches if you don't want them to. They don't even have to attend public school if you don't want them to.

It's my job as a parent to prepare and protect them from the world, and I want to craft the message in a way that I feel is appropriate for their age. I don't want the nanny state to take away my parental duties.

If every kid had at least one good, able parent, no country would need half of what they do in schools. But do remember that, far and away, the most likely sexual predators are a child's immediate family. And other parents are simply incompetent to teach their children anything, sad to say. Sometimes, you can't just flat out trust people simply because they're parents.

Again, from the NPR story I quoted before, "Fifteen percent of Americans believe that schools should teach only about abstinence from sexual intercourse and should not provide information on how to obtain and use condoms and other contraception."

Couldn't actually find where you linked to that, but a quick google came up with it.

Evangelicals make up 0.5% of Christians in the USA, and have very diverse views like many other groups, like Mormons. Obviously, the 15% are more than just that very small group.

I really have no idea where you pulled the 0.5% of Christians number, but it's incorrect. Evangelicals make up about 25% of the population of the US, which makes them more like 30% of the Christians. Add in all "born again" Christians, and you're up over 50%. Evangelicals are than enough to account for the 15%. They are also, not so coincidentally, a majority in most of the deep southern states, an area Mitt Romney desperately needs to swing if he's going to win the primary.

Also from the NPR article:

Just as the initial impetus for sex education in schools came from health advocates, the historical impetus for abstinence education has come from evangelical or born-again Christians.

The views of Evangelicals are diverse, yes, but much less so than most other demographic groups on social conservative issues. The politics of the pulpit swings a *lot* of voters. George W. Bush is ample evidence of just how much clout they can throw around, if they try.

-Jester