An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday. ACLU staff attorney Elizabeth Gill said at least two ...

Both chambers of Congress have introduced resolutions that urge the Uganda Parliament to dump a proposed bill that that ups the penalties for being gay in a country where it is already illegal.

California Representative Berman L. Howard introduced his resolution on Wednesday. The resolution has attracted 38 co-sponsors ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Abstinence-only sex education can work -- if it's based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes about other types of risky behavior like smoking and drinking, new research shows. African-American sixth- and seventh-graders who completed the eight-hour program, which involved a series of brief activities and games (and no lecturing), were one-third less ...

An experimental abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teens from having sex, a provocative study found. Billed as the first rigorous research to show long-term success with an abstinence-only approach, the study differed from traditional programs that have lost federal and state support in recent years. The classes didn't preach saving sex until marriage or disparage condom ...