Criticism sparks CDC sex panel changes (abstinence critic off)

[deadparrot]

JACKSONVILLE, FL, United States (UPI) -- A U.S. agency has dropped a speaker from a Jacksonville, Fla., sexual abstinence panel in reaction to conservative criticism, a report said Tuesday.

The Centers for Disease Control removed William Smith of the sexual rights group Sexuality Information and Education Council, who was to address a report by Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., that criticized abstinence programs during a panel at the 2006 National STD Prevention Conference.

Smith, who told The Washington Post the decision was 'shocking,' was replaced with abstinence proponents Eric Walsh of Loma Linda University and Worth the Wait founder Patricia Sulak.

The CDC also changed the panel`s name in response to an April 26 letter from U.S. Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., who questioned the title and the presenter.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1162551.php/Criticism_sparks_CDC_sex_panel_changes

[BrklynLiberal]

1. This is horrifying. Another intrusion of relgious belief into government.

This is another attempt to use relgion to twist science.

[ThomCat]

2. You're absolutely right.

And they don't care whether we like it or not. They're going to cram their religious hypocracy down our throats, or up into various other orifices.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. They don't even make an attempt to disguise their pro-religion

agenda anymore. They are just blatant about it.