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  • Letters to the editor
On April 11, 2019February 2, 2023
Emily Meyer

Publishing letter legitimizes ‘nonsense’

Thank you so much for printing a Mr. Donald Hudzinski’s analysis that sex education leads to sex trafficking in the Mailbag section last week.

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  • Letters to the editor
On April 4, 2019February 2, 2023
Donald F. Hudzinski

Sex education led to sex trafficking

In response to the article on “Sex trafficking in Madison is a sobering reality” by Vicky Franchino, sex trafficking was a predictable outcome of sex education in our grade schools, high schools, and colleges for the last 60 years.

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  • State News
On April 10, 2012March 13, 2025
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Governor signs bills on health exchanges, sex education, ‘Web cam’ abortions

On Thursday, April 5, Governor Walker signed about 50 bills into law, including three measures supported by the Wisconsin Catholic Conference (WCC).

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  • State News
On March 22, 2012February 26, 2025
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Revisions to sex education approved, awaits governor’s signature

On March 14, the State Assembly approved legislation to provide local districts more flexibility in teaching human growth and development classes. The bill also permits abstinence-based instruction.

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  • Editorial
On November 17, 2011February 15, 2022
Mary C. Uhler

Abstinence education: Why it’s more important than ever

Editor's View by Mary C. Uhler

In Wisconsin, we’ve been hearing a lot in the media these days about sex education. Our state Legislature is debating a bill which would overturn a law passed two years ago called the Healthy Youth Act.

That law required public schools that offer sex education to teach about proper use of contraceptives, among other things. The proposed new law, called the “Strong Communities . . . Healthy Kids Act,” would emphasize abstinence as the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy and disease.

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  • Bishop Morlino's Columns
On March 11, 2010May 10, 2021
Bishop Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison

Lent: Time to slam the door in Satan’s face

This column is the bishop’s communication with the faithful of the Diocese of Madison. Any wider circulation reaches beyond the intention of the bishop.

Each year we are invited to reflect on the whole of our Lenten journey in the context of Jesus’ temptations in the desert. That’s a model, if you will, a paradigm, for what is supposed to happen during Lent. And, I am happy to say that I discovered again this year that, substantially, my reflections on this Gospel passage are in line with those of our Holy Father. I know that when I’m in communion with the Holy Father, by God’s grace and for the good of the diocese, I’m right on target.

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  • Letters to the editor
On February 18, 2010
David Kuhle, Hazel Green

Law encourages children to become sexually active

To the editor:

What in the darkness of Hades has possessed the Democrats in the Wisconsin Legislature to pass the falsely-named Healthy Youth Act (AB 458/SB 324)? This bill requires teachers of human growth and development to make our children proficient in contraception.

I do not want our 12-year-old children handed a cucumber and a condom to prove they know how to engage in sexual activity. Condoms do not eliminate venereal disease and pregnancy, but do invite sexual activity.

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  • Editorial
On February 11, 2010February 15, 2022
Mary C. Uhler, editor

Is it too little, too late?

Just when it looked like state and federal abstinence-based sex education programs were set to lose funding, a new study shows that abstinence-only programs do work.

But is it too little, too late to change minds, hearts, and government programs?

I hope not.

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  • Letters to the editor
On December 17, 2009
Glenn Grothman, State Senator

Action needed to stop proposed sex education bill

To the editor:

People sometimes wonder how we arrived at the state of moral decay we are currently at in America and what we can do to fight it. One primary example exacerbating current problems in Wisconsin is Senate Bill 324/Assembly Bill 458, which dramatically changes the sex education curriculum in our state.

This bill, which is a top legislative priority for Planned Parenthood, will require districts to use curriculum approved by a traditionally liberal Department of Public Instruction relying on information determined to be accurate by liberal national groups. Bizarrely, public school teachers will not be able to say anything that will promote bias against sexually active children. Apparently, we don’t want to hurt their feelings.

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  • Around the Diocese
On November 5, 2009June 8, 2024
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Sex education should respect roles of parents, local leaders

The Wisconsin Catholic Conference (WCC) has urged state legislators to allow Wisconsin law governing education for human growth and development to continue to respect the judgment of parents, local school leaders, and advisory committees.

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