Colorado Gov. Bans Abstinence-Only Sex Ed, Permits Homosexual Adoption

DENVER, Colorado, May 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law Monday two bills legalizing homosexual adoption and banning abstinence-only sex education.

Ritter defended his decision to sign H.B. 1330, which permits homosexual couples to adopt, by claiming the law would “strengthen families and provide children with as stable an environment as possible,” The Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

Jim Pfaff, president and CEO of the Colorado Family Institute, told Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link that both bills were examples of paybacks to financial supporters.

“Both bills show that this was a Legislature that was willing to pay back its benefactors,” he said. “Their agenda is to expand rights and legal acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle. What we need to be doing is strengthening the capability of mother-and father households to adopt.

“It’s a clarion call to the Church, that we need to be addressing the adoption issue.”

Pfaff said Ritter’s support of a ban on abstinence-only sex education will take moral teaching out of the classroom and undo the success already apparent with abstinence-only programs currently in use in the state.

“It’s a radical reversal of what has been working in Colorado,” he said. “We have seen a noticeable decrease in out-of-wedlock births among teens. Now, all that progress has been wiped away with the stroke of the governor’s pen.”

Both laws were strongly opposed by the Colorado Catholic Conference, Catholic News Agency reported May 15. The law permitting adoption by homosexual couples or unmarried heterosexual couples bypasses the normal legal review process of adoption, the CCC warned. It “fails to recognize the intricacies of adoption law and processes, and is not in the best interests of the children or people of Colorado.” [More]

Ritter - another sad case of a politician who runs for office as a pro-lifer - then turns pro-death when he enters office. He desperately needs our prayers.

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  1. The Governor needs our prayers. I'm hoping that he does not win a re-election after lying to voters already about being pro-life.

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  2. I have openened a diaoogue with someone who is citing various research that purports to show the faiure of abstience only education, example Kirby - Emerging Answers: Research Findings on
    Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy. The full report and summary are available at
    www.teenpregnancy.org.
    DOes anyone have some solid research that refutes studies such as these or show effectiveness not just in abstinence but abstinence based sex ed programs. I would be most grateful.
    Fr Peter Calabrese
    petebarnab@yahoo.com

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