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Dear ,

I strongly urge you to oppose the awarding of multi-million dollar grants by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that are used to promote homosexuality and promiscuity to teens and to destroy genuine faith-based abstinence initiatives throughout the developing nations of the world.

In USAID-funded programs throughout Central America, children and teens are targeted with pamphlets and advertisements of colored and flavored condoms which depict the faces of young boys and children as young as seven years of age.

In 2001, Family Health International (FHI) received $85 million from USAID to promote sex education to children and teens. FHI's program, titled YouthNet, provides IUDs, contraceptive pills and Depo-Provera to children as young as ten years old. Post-abortion care (a euphemism for manual vacuum abortion) is also available to children.

In Honduras, a USAID manual, titled "Speaking About Sexuality with Young People," is aimed at getting "boys and girls" to "acknowledge the existence of homosexuality in the population." According to this USAID manual, promoted in schools throughout Honduras, "Homosexuality fulfills an important role in the sexual socialization of youngsters. ... Youngsters today have to recognize the existence of male and female homosexuality." In a section of the manual titled "Talking about sexuality with youngsters," teachers are encouraged to ask 10-year-old children: "If you have never had sex with a person of the same sex, how do you know if you would prefer it?"

I am appalled at the use of my tax dollars for such purposes.

Thank you for your consideration of this matter and all the work you do for us.

Sincerely,