Parents rule in sex-ed battle

Education | Judge throws out controversial Maryland school program following strategic grassroots protest | Jamie Dean

Laura Quigley wasn't interested in political activism until she heard a Maryland talk radio host describe what her two children would soon learn in school: People determine their sex by "sensing" whether they are male or female; sex play between same-sex adolescents is normal; teenagers should always wear a condom when engaging in vaginal, oral, or anal sex, as if those were expected practices. Mrs. Quigley couldn't believe her ears. "I was in total amazement," she said.

Amazement turned to anger for more parents when they learned about a new sex-education curriculum the Montgomery County School Board had approved and planned to implement in May 2005. Mrs. Quigley and other parents formed an organization called Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC), which eventually filed a lawsuit against the school board, seeking to derail the curriculum. A district judge on May 6 ruled in favor of CRC in what Mathew Staver of the Florida-based Liberty Counsel called "the most significant curriculum decision ever rendered." The school system halted the program one day before it was scheduled to begin.

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May 21, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 20

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