Posted on 11/03/2005 11:59:07 AM PST by NYer
Madrid, Nov. 03, 2005 (CNA) - After intense protests in the central Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha, government officials decided to provisionally suspend four controversial guides for 11-18 year-old girls because of their content promoting lesbianism, abortion and masturbation.
The COPE radio networkwhich is owned by the Bishops Conference of Spaindenounced the Womens Institute of Castilla-La Mancha for distributing the guides for girls in the regions schools. The Institute had said the purpose of the guides was to change thinking and discriminatory behavior in order to achieve a new model of a woman.
The guides counsel girls to masturbate certain concrete parts of the body and promote self-eroticism, even to the point of suggestingwith explicit illustrationsthat if you have the chance to find someone you trust to give you massages, relax and let go it will surely make you feel out of this world.
In addition to promoting abortion as a solution to unwanted pregnancies, the guides also promote homosexual relations. And what if you especially like girls?: You have surely heard that the normal thing is to like boys, but if you educate yourself well and you think a little bit on your own, you will discover that what is natural is that people show love and express themselves sexually, whether with someone of the opposite or of the same, the guides indicate.
The civil rights watchdog website HazteOir.org denounced the effort to usurp from parents the right to educate their children, ignoring the obligation to respect the beliefs and values that parents wish to pass on to their children.
A statement by the regional government said it would stop distributing the guide to schools in the region "on a provisional basis ... to ensure the adaptation of the text to the pedagogical requirements of the school community of Castilla La Mancha."
HazteOir.org called the temporary suspension insufficient and demanded the resignation of the authors of the guides. The websites spokesman, Alejandro Campoy, said it would keep up the pressure on school officials to definitively suspend the distribution of the guides, which he called family-phobic.
This is not about revising or changing the content, Campoy said. What is at risk here is something much more serious: the invasion by a public authority of an area reserved exclusively to parents, according to article 27 of the Constitution. State-sponsored sex-ed in the schools should be limited to healthy and scientific formation regarding all aspects involved in such an important matter.
He said to introduce ideologies or morals into the schools without the consent of parents is to impose a sectarian and state-sponsored morality on young people, in pure Soviet style.
Ping!
Sounds like Spain is going the right way on an issue the 9th circuit just went the wrong way on.
HOME SCHOOL just became a stronger option for the people of Spain
. . . WAY too much information, man . . .
Wow, the influx of MooseLimbs has a positive effect in Spain.
"The guides counsel girls to masturbate certain concrete parts of the body"
(Tossing symbolic hat in the air!!)
I love good news, later pingout!!!
If any of you can read in Spanish, you're welcome to visit it!
-Theo
Franco must be spinning like a top!
I recommend it to anyone who reads/speaks Spanish and/or cares about Spanish politics.
OK, I just climbed out of my chair and had to step away from the screen.
Flipping hell, mate - what in God's name possessed you to share that information?
Regards, Ivan
Uh, huh. Ahhh, sure. Good for you, man. I guess.
:-D
-Theo
"educate yourself"
Oh, and "think on your own"
Hmmm...and just think, since the dawn of time, we've all been "uneducated" about attraction to the opposite sex...
Education wouldn't have to do with "recuitment" or trying to influence someone, would it?
/gee I wonder
TMI.
This is a family friendly site!
(steely)
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