by Tony Snow

About the author: Tony Snow is a nationally syndicated columnist.

Both political parties say education will top the list of priorities for the national elections in 2000. If so, here’s the issue of the year: sex education.

Long ago, when public schools first thought of removing the “l” from their titles [pubic], religious organizations complained about carnal instruction. The press and the educational establishment quickly tarred these critics as hicks unwise to ethics in the age of birth control and warned that untutored adolescents would learn on their own about the birds and the bees.

Sex Education Encourages Sex

Little did anyone suspect that schools eventually would be the ones encouraging kids to rut with abandon—and that the federal government would dole out millions of bucks to subsidize what amounts...