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SANTA ROSA – A battle over sex education is under way in Sonoma County, pitting a longtime abstinence-only group against California Department of Education officials who say the group breaks state law when it teaches in the classroom. Among the players in the unfolding debate are the ACLU of Northern California, the California Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Free to Be, a Sonoma County group that has been promoting abstinence until marriage for 17 years. Read more in the Press Democrat.
LOS ANGELES –It's official: Carrie Prejean has been fired as Miss California USA. Prejean's termination, according to pageant officials, had nothing to do with her support for traditional marriage that catapulted her from beauty queen to political commentator. Read more in the Los Angeles Times.