A federal judge has ordered a Maryland school district to revise its sex education curriculum

A federal judge has ordered a Maryland school district to revise its sex education curriculum after he said it seemed to favor religions that take a positive view of homosexuality

Christian Century, May 31, 2005

* A federal judge has ordered a Maryland school district to revise its sex education curriculum after he said it seemed to favor religions that take a positive view of homosexuality. Montgomery County Public Schools superintendent Jerry Weast said he would shelve the program after some parents convinced U.S. District Court judge Alexander Williams that it unfairly singled out fundamentalists and Baptists. The judge said the program, which was scheduled for eighth--and tenth-graders, "presents only one view of the subject--that homosexuality is a natural and morally correct lifestyle--to the exclusion of other perspectives." The judge said the program "paints certain Christian sects, notably Baptists, which are opposed to homosexuality, as unenlightened and biblically misguided," according to the Washington Post.

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