SEE HOW THEY SPIN

A recent study of sexual practices among religious teenagers that followed up with them when they were young adults found that taking an abstinence pledge was ineffective in preventing sex before marriage. The key variable seems to be the familial and social background of the subjects. The conclusion is that programs that emphasize abstinence-only are ineffective.

The wingnuts can't stand this and a hack from Heritage had this to say:

Rector said his studies support the importance of continuing federal funding of abstinence education and that Rosenbaum’s study does too.

“What she’s really lobbying for is clearly an elimination of abstinence teaching,” Rector said. “And so she’s saying, when you look at these kids that have pro-abstinence attitudes, those pro-abstinence attitudes provide dramatically positive results but they are not linked to the virginity pledge per se, therefore we should do away with those pro-abstinence attitudes.”