BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y. -- The Baldwinsville school district will no longer allow a Christian-based group to teach sex education classes to high school students after an instructor used a skit that compared giving away a piece of chewing gum to a girl losing her virginity.

The message delivered by the New Hope Family Services instructor was to say that some people have sex too casually and that virginity can only be given away once, according to the instructor and group's director.

New Hope Family Services is an anti-abortion, pregnancy resource center and adoption agency that also provides an abstinence education program. The group is currently teaching the abstinence program in 10 Central New York school districts, according to its executive director, Martha Raub.

Here's how the chewing gum comparison was used in a recent sex education class at C.W. Baker High School.

"I think you're the one," the female instructor said to one of the boys according to a recording. "I have this gift that I've been saving my whole life. I've never given it away to anyone, but I want you to have it because I think you're the one."

The instructor gives the student a piece of chewing gum and the boy starts to chew it, according to the recording. The instructor goes to a second male student.

"I had this gift that I was saving but then I kinda didn't and I kinda gave it away, but I want you to have it now because I think you're the one," she said as she retrieved the chewed-up piece of gum from the first student's mouth to give to the second student.

The gift of gum represented virginity, the instructor told the class. "We can only give our virginity away once," she said.

The purpose of the skit was to demonstrate that sexual intimacy is something special and not to be treated casually, Raub said.

Gina Tonello, the mother of the student who recorded the lesson, believes the wrong message was delivered to students.

"These lessons are not only dated, but biased and harmful to students and their sense of well-being," said Tonello, who has two children in the district -- an eighth grader and a senior.

She believes New Hope delivers shame-based lessons about premarital sex to high school students. She worries that implications from the lesson will negatively affect all students, especially victims of sexual assaults and members of the LGBTQ community.

"They shouldn't be made to feel ashamed or guilty," Tonello said. "If you lose your virginity you're not a chewed piece of gum."

Tonello said she was concerned with the New Hope Family Service's lessons last year when her daughter's friends were in the class. Tonello vented her frustrations on social media. She said she was contacted by Baldwinsville Superintendent Matthew McDonald who told her he would take care of it.

Tonello said her daughter, a senior, came home from school last week and told her that New Hope was presenting in her health class. Tonello asked her daughter to record the next day's lesson and she did. That's when the chewing gum skit was recorded.

Tonello created a website, www.stoptheshaming.org, and posted the recording. She also brought her concerns to the Baldwinsville School Board meeting Monday night.

"Shame-based sex education shuts down discussions of sexual violence, consent, healthy sexuality and safe sex before they can even start, while planting the little seeds that reinforce gender stereotypes about female passivity and male aggressiveness," Tonello told the school board. "In other words, teaching that men can treat women without respect -- like a chewed piece of gum."

Tonello said she's upset on so many levels.

"I feel that our kids deserve, and they have a basic human right, to get complete and accurate information about their sexual and reproductive health," she said.

Baldwinsville Superintendent Matthew McDonald said the district recognizes that the topic of human sexuality, addressed as part of the New York State Health curriculum, can be a controversial subject.

"The district has decided that it will no longer invite outside organizations into the classroom to discuss the topic of human sexuality in health class," McDonald said in an email. "The district will utilize its highly qualified faculty to provide instruction on the topic of human sexuality in compliance with the curriculum and guidelines of the New York State Education Department."

New Hope Family Services provides its Real Love Respects Abstinence Education Program as a community service, Raub said. The program is free and is not government funded, she said.

"We believe that educating our teens about the risks of engaging in pre-marital sex will help them make a more positive choice," she said. "By encouraging our youth to abstain and teaching them how to achieve this goal, they will be able to realize greater opportunities for their future and a healthier, risk-free lifestyle. The program is presented with humor, personal experiences, interactive demonstrations and truthful, accurate information taken from the Center for Disease Control."

Raub said the program also includes teaching on how to develop refusal skills and setting healthy boundaries.

New Hope Family Services lists LaFayette, Onondaga Central, Marcellus, West Genesee, Fabius-Pompey, Liverpool, Jordan-Elbridge and Baldwinsville school districts as that receive its services.

West Genesee Superintendent Chris Brown said the district does not currently use the New Hope's services, but they brought the organization in for an assembly in the past.

Superintendents for LaFayette, Onondaga Central and Fabius-Pompey said they've used the organization's services for several years.

"It's been at least 10 years," said Fabius-Pompey Superintendent Tim Ryan. "We've had no complaints."

Ryan said after the presentation surveys are given to the students and the reactions are "overwhelmingly positive."

Raub said the anonymous student evaluations are given after each program, including in the recent Baldwinsville high school class.

"We have been presenting our Real Love Respects program in Baker High School for the last seven years," Raub said. "This semester we presented our program to 188 students there and 184 of them responded positively to our presentations, according to their anonymous student evaluations."

The school superintendents that use New Hope's services said that parents have the option to have students opt-out of these lessons and the lessons from New Hope are not the only sexual health education that they receive.

"High school age students in grades 9-12 receive instruction in prevention education that provides instruction on "safe-sex," proper use of condoms, and pregnancy prevention," said LaFayette Superintendent Jeremy Belfield.

The district also partners with other organizations, specifically Morrisville State College through the STEP program, to provide high school students with similar information on preventing sexually transmitted diseases and the consequences of unsafe sex.

"Our program is focused on helping kids to feel comfortable asking questions and making informed decisions," he said.