The right to just say no

National | Parents' abstinence ads censored by public-school officials | Roy Maynard

Independence is still a source of contention here in this Boston-area town. Just ask Douglas Yeo, a parent who for five years has battled the town's school district over what his children are to be taught about sex.

The battle is shaping up into a Supreme Court fight, now that an appellate court has given Mr. Yeo's minutemen a boost. The dispute is over abstinence-not "abstinence only," the message of some curricula, but any mention of abstinence at all. Even in the public schools of Chautauqua County, N.Y.-where AIDS predator Nushawn Williams allegedly was able to infect, directly or indirectly, some 100 young women and girls with the HIV virus-abstinence is mentioned. "You might spend the first 20 minutes [of a two-week sex-ed course] on abstinence," Jamestown High School principal Terry Redman said in USA Today.

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