Quoted from the San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, 19 March 94: 

      FUNDAMENTALIST SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS ITS OWN SEX EDUCATION
                        Los Angeles Times

Vista,
San Diego County

This city's school board voted yesterday to adopt a controversial sex 
education program with religious overtones that preaches a strict 
message of sexual abstinence and avoids mention of contraception.

"Sex Respect," [don't you love fundie code words? -jv] which has been 
legally challenged in school districts across the country, was chosen 
by the school board over a state-sanctioned "family life" program, 
despite costing $30 more per student to implement.

Critics of "Sex Respect" said yesterday that they expect to sue the 
district when the program is put in place n July.

In an emotional meeting that lasted until early yesterday morning, the 
Christian conservative majority of the five-member board also voted to 
replace its staff attorneys with anti-abortion lawyer David Llewellyn 
of Sacramento, who often represents Christian political organizations. 
Barbara Donovan, chairwoman of Community Action for Public Education, 
said the board, by hiring Llewellyn, is gearing up for her group's 
expected legal challenge to Sex Respect.

"Why hire someone with a specialty unless you know you'll need the 
specialty?" said Donovan, who called 'Sex Respect' a fear-based 
program that "they're using to lord their 'moral values' over the 
consideration of everyone else in Vista. This was not a popular 
decision."

Angry parents and teachers often protest against Board President 
Deidre Holliday and fellow members John Tyndall and Joyce Lee, who 
were the targets of a recent recall bid that failed to gather enough 
signatures but have said they will attempt another recall in November. 
Among other actions, the board voted to reject the inclusion of 
Secular Humanism into religion classes. Trustee Sandee Carter accused 
board member Tyndall of hoping to include Secular Humanism in the 
district curriculum in a thinly veiled attempt to "belittle or demean 
people who do not worship the way you do."