The programme - entitled Called to Love - has been devised by theExecutive's sex education project Healthy Respect and the ScottishCatholic Education Service. It will be tested out in seven schools inEdinburgh, Midlothian and Inverclyde.
Michael McGrath, director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service'said: "It will be taking a Christian perspective and will be promoting apositive view of the value of abstinence."
He added that the programme would not be advocating the use of condomsand other contraceptives. "It won't be promoting artificialcontraception - the only way to guarantee avoidance of sexual infectionis to abstain from sexual intercourse."
A spokesman for Healthy Respect said Called to Love would follow theCatholic Education Commission's guidelines on teaching of relationshipsand moral education in Catholic schools.
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