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I don't believe this is merely a case of religious morals. Kids need to know about safe sex, not only for preventing unwanted pregnancies, but because they need to protect themselves from disease. If one has religious beliefs one would like their kids to follow, one can teach them those at home. But it makes no sense to keep valuable information about disease prevention from them. If they have sex and you as a parent don't approve, they can always apologize for letting you down and decide to try harder not to have sex. But if they slip once and end up with hepatitis or HIV or herpes, because you as a parent decided they should be ignorant, nobody is at fault but you the parent....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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