Faith groups step in as abstinence funds dry up

Washington Post: “‘With funding being cut from the government, you’re going to see more responsibility placed on churches in the community to carry this banner,’ said Michael Polite, assistant pastor at Riverside Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nashville, which collaborated with several other local Adventist churches for the ball on a recent weekend . . . There’s a measure in the U.S. Senate to restore about $50 million to abstinence education, but its passage is uncertain and it would restore funding to less than half of what it had been under the Bush administration.”