The sex-ed community is up in arms over a $250 million item in the health care reform legislation passed last week. The money, a tiny fraction of the total cost of the bill, would restore funding to a largely-discredited federal grant program for abstinence-only sex ed programs. As we reported earlier this year, programs focused on abstinence-only education leave LGBT teens with limited knowledge of safe sex practices, leaving them at increased risk for a lot of STIs, including HIV. So will this win for conservative mores hit Minnesota hard, reinvigorating abstinence-only programs in public schools at a time when we’re seeing increases in HIV and other diseases? Not likely – several years ago, state education officials pulled out of the program, called Title V.