I'd rather not pay for someone else's wars, either. Sometimes, our tax dollars go toward things we don't personally like. Either you oppose the entire system of democratic government and social action or you don't, but I don't care about whatever arbitrary standards of "appropriateness" you create to try to legitimize your personal preferences.

It's the state's place to make sure your children have, at the least, the facts regarding sex, just like any other topic. Many parents either don't have those facts or will refuse to provide them to their children. One of those facts is that long-lasting, reliable birth control exists, and will soon be free thanks to the PPACA. You can teach your children whatever "philosophical belief" about it that you want, but that doesn't change the reality.

As far as the timing of it, some students are becoming sexually active in middle school these days, with or without sex ed giving them a clear picture of reality. Holding it back just increases the chances of detrimental results.

All that is secondary to the point that Republicans and social conservatives have tried to eliminate real sex ed entirely and to paint birth control as ineffective.