Both Cardenas and Kittelson say SWAG differs in significant ways from abstinence - only programs of the past, which they acknowledge were widely criticized for providing medically inaccurate information, and for their promotion of a religious and
politically conservative agenda.
Stories that define a community different from the world around us because of the way these stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical
politically and on other issues seem
conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its
agenda.