I consider him one of the best coaches in the nation. Through competitions we also have become good friends.

Enough is enough. For too long these abstinence-only programs have operated without a hint of oversight. At least at the state level, this trend is changing, and public health officials couldn't be more pleased.

Turnabout is fair play. We'll use this and any other tool at our disposal to ensure that youth receive honest and accurate sex education.

This is a point of major social transition, ... The data are now coming out and roiling the idea that boys are the hunters and young girls are the prey. It absolutely defies the stereotype.

We've known for some time that abstinence-only is bad science, bad policy, and a blatant violation of medical ethics and basic human rights. And as more people find out what is being taught and what is being censored in these ineffective programs, more and more of these 'stay pure or we don't care about you' programs will be banned from public schools.

Under his direction, HIV prevention programs have shifted from being based in public health science to being dictated by the abstinence-only-until-marriage ideology of the Bush administration.

Never in recent history has so much government money been put into so many programs with so little oversight and so little proven impact.