An Inclusive Litany

6/6/01

In an article titled "Keeping Sex in Sex Education," published in the Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies, Gary Simpson and Erika Sussman argue that for schools to encourage premarital sexual abstinence is to violate the establishment provision of the First Amendment, because abstinence is supported by religion. They further argue that the provision allowing free exercise of religion does not allow parents to keep their children out of sex education classes.