Jerry Falwell in Liberal Land

Sarah Posner (10:25AM) link

The Washington Post this morning reports that the school superintendent of Montgomery County, Maryland suspended a "contentious" sex education curriculum after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing, for 10 days, the county's implementation of the curriculum.

What the Post story doesn't tell you is that the curriculum, designed to help prevent sexually transmitted disease, teen pregnancy, and homophobic bullying, was made contentious by a small group of parents with support from Jerry Falwell, Tony Perkins, and Beverly LaHaye.

In other words, these extremists have infiltrated one of the country's most liberal counties. But the Post portrayed them as just a bunch of concerned parents.