View image in fullscreen Illustration: Shimeng Jiang/The GuardianWhen Wendy Pfrenger’s children started high school in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, she had the choice to enroll them in abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex ed. Sex education advocates in the US have long hoped that states would one day follow more comprehensive and inclusive guidelines for teaching sex ed to students in grades K-12. “When these hostile state legislatures try to limit or erase sex education in schools, the information doesn’t just disappear. “We’re not just a denomination that happens to offer sex ed,” said Amy Johnson, minister for sexuality education and justice for the UCC. “This is something that our faith believes in.”Both Johnson and Davis realize that churches are not typically spaces that offer comprehensive sex ed.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2026 15:33 UTC