ACLU Pressures Congress, Launches Nationwide Effort to Eliminate Abstinence Education — Ignoring the fact that parents prefer their child receive abstinence programs 2:1 over comprehensive sex education, the American Civil Liberties Union is aggressively pressuring congress to end funding for abstinence education and to increase funding for comprehensive sex education. Further, since September 2005, the ACLU has pursued a “Not in My State” campaign, a nationwide action aimed at eliminating abstinence education from all public schools. In a coordinated effort, ACLU affiliates across the county have sent letters to local school officials demanding that they discontinue abstinence programs and replace them with comprehensive sex ed programs. In attempts to further intimidate school officials, some ACLU affiliates even falsely claimed that schools were violating state law by using abstinence programs instead of comprehensive sex education!