http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50947,00.html CDC Sex Site Has Some Eyes Sore By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 2:00 a.m. March 9, 2002 PST WASHINGTON -- The staid folks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been caught in a political flap after they linked to a -- gasp! -- site that advocates a "positive attitude towards sexuality." That was enough to spur a conservative physicians group to complain to the CDC and some Republican politicos to tell The Washington Times that "this message conflicts with the message that millions of parents try to reinforce in their children each day." CDC said it is reviewing the link and may remove it. The site in question is Positive.org, which gives frank, straightforward advice about sex phrased in language that teens can understand. It's run by the Coalition for Positive Sexuality, a not-for-profit group. The letter came from the Physicians Consortium, which joined with Focus on the Family's James Dobson last summer to complain that the CDC was giving advice about safe sex rather than only promoting abstinence from sex. --- http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020307-80699755.htm CDC links to 'pro-sex' teen site [blackline-small.gif] By Robert Stacy McCain THE WASHINGTON TIMES A federal Web site features a link to the Internet pages of "pro-sex" activists who provide teen-agers with explicit advice about homosexuality, sodomy and masturbation. Listings for "youth" resources on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) site, includes a link to the Coalition for Positive Sexuality (CPS), a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group. "If you think you might be queer, relax!" the CPS site urges teens, and offers this suggestion: "If you think you are queer, try to find a lesbian/bisexual/gay/transgender community center near you, where you can meet other queers your age." The CDC site's "youth" links include the Advocates for Youth site, which promotes activism to overturn federal abstinence education policies. A Department of Agriculture spokeswoman said yesterday the department would remove a link to CPS from one of its Web sites. That site, www.cyfernet.org, includes "postive youth development" links to the sex advice site Go Ask Alice and to Planned Parenthood's Teenwire site. "We are in the process of taking down the link [to CPS]," public affairs specialist Maria Bynum said yesterday afternoon. "And we will work with the [Cyfernet] program office and the university partners to review the [other] sites and determine what the next steps are." The federal Internet links have come under fire from the Physicians Consortium, a Pennsylvania-based public policy group. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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