Posted on 01/22/2008 4:25:22 PM PST by wagglebee
The last four decades have seen a significant shift in the philosophy behind sex education in America’s public schools. Prior to the sexual revolution, human biology and reproduction, hygiene, and marriage were the focus of sex education. In essence, this approach was grounded in particular moral virtues, namely biblical.
The new emphasis seeks to eliminate these traditional moral distinctions. Instead the student’s “choice” is given the supreme moral authority and the goal of these curriculums is to merely aid in the “safest” expression of the child’s choice.
This follows the vision set forth by Dr. Mary Calderone, former medical director of Planned Parenthood, first president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the US (SIECUS) and the architect of modern sex education, when she wrote:
A new stage of evolution is breaking across the horizon and the task of educators is to prepare children to step into that new world. To do this, they must pry children away from old views and values, especially from biblical and other traditional forms of sexual morality - for religious laws or rules about sex were made on the basis of ignorance. (Calderone & Johnson, The Family Book About Sexuality, 1981)
However, more and more modern sex education programs are becoming nothing more than publicly funded platforms for legitimizing homosexuality and other deviant and unsafe behaviors—pro-homosexual propaganda presented under the guise of “tolerance” and “diversity.”
As Olivia St. John writing for WorldNetDaily.com points out, “Thanks to public apathy and the efforts of misguided state and federal lawmakers, activist judges and liberal teachers unions, our nation's schools have become the new red-light district of the 21st century.”
St John offers for example, “Gay-Straight Alliances, or GSAs, serve as illicit sex breeding grounds in more than 3,000 public schools across America. The GSA Network News links students to socials, seminars, conferences and other events enabling adult homosexuals to develop relationships with young people. A recent announcement seeks ‘queer youth models’ who are males age 15-18 ‘or look under 18.’ Still another invites young people to a free movie screening described as being a ‘sexy, sensory treat.’ October's news featured a free ‘Queer Girl Retreat’ for females ages 24 and younger for ‘two days of radical queer education about community, bodies and pleasure.”
According to St. John, “GSA activists within public schools have inserted obscene material … into both libraries and classroom discussions. Considered ‘sexual literacy,’ assigned books explore sexual perversions, including teen sex with adults. One book titled The God Box questions the ‘interpretation’ of Biblical passages on homosexuality.”
More recently, the Gay-Straight Alliance Network has begun promoting transgender issues on middle and high school campuses. The GSA Network News detailed how a GSA club at Sierra High School in California recently completed its “newest event” – a Transgender Day of Remembrance.
In Fresno, a GSA club member at McLane High School and a former club member planned a community-wide Transgender Day of Remembrance at Café Fresno, which featured “open mic, poetry readings, music and general youth fellowship.” In support of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, the GSA Network News offered the following encouragement to students, “Now, is the time to push your school and community ‘beyond the binary’ and focus on not only fighting homophobia on your campus, but also fighting transphobia.”
This follows an emerging trend in judicial activism. In 2002, a judge in Massachusetts ruled that a junior high school boy must be permitted to attend classes while wearing girls’ clothing. Judge Giles justifies her decision by claiming that “exposing children to diversity at an early age serves the important social goals of increasing their abilities to tolerate differences and teaching them respect for everyone’s experience in that ‘Brave New World’ out there.”
In a dispute that is still ongoing, the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education last year adopted a sex education curriculum designed to teach tolerance of gays and lesbians. Among other things, course materials described as a “myth” the belief that “homosexuality is a sin” and characterized certain Christian religions as “intolerant and Biblically misguided” because they are “opposed to homosexuality.”
The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teacher’s union representing more than 2.7 million teachers and educators offers the manual A School Employee’s Guide to Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues (GLBT) in which they state, “NEA stands committed to addressing the needs of and challenges faced by both GLBT students and our GLBT members and colleagues. And we will continue to work to secure GLBT rights as part of our larger effort to secure human and civil rights for all in and outside of the classroom.” The NEA actively promotes GSAs and works closely with the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Committed to homosexual activism, “GLSEN works with educators, students, and the community to help children learn to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.” (Quote taken from the NEA website)
Suffice it to say that since its inception in the 1960s, the “modern” approach to sex education has been accompanied by epidemic rates of sexually transmitted disease among teens, out-of-wedlock teen pregnancies, and psychological trauma.
However, it would be a mistake to regard this approach as merely misguided when in fact it is quite deliberate and its aims are very specific. It is as Dr. Calderone so plainly put it more than two decades ago; an effort to “pry children away from old views and values, especially from biblical and other traditional forms of sexual morality.”
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S. Michael Craven is the President of the Center for Christ & Culture, a ministry of discipleship and Church renewal that works to equip Christians with an intelligent, thoroughly Christian and missional approach to culture. For more information on the Center for Christ & Culture, additional resources, and other works by S. Michael Craven visit: www.battlefortruth.org
Exactly, today it's not about whether children will have sex, but how.
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Not just among the NEA. Try having a discussion on that around here with certain Freepers and they will ask if you have teens and then tell you that your kids are definately having sex and if you disagree you are living with your head in the sand.
Propaganda.
Was this a test? Do I win a prize? :o)
By and large, this is the same group that will tell you how “lucky” a kid is to have sex with his teacher, but then tell you it’s different if a girl is having sex with a teacher.
You get a gold star!!! :-)
The groups behind all this are the Zero Population Growth people.
Part of the every child a wanton child!
LOL! The first time I read that I was thinking ‘wonton’ child. What on earth does Chinese food have to do with children? I have no excuse. ;o)
I feel so special! I’d like to thank my parents...
LOL!!!
One would suspect that the point where we got away from morality in teaching about sex, is the point where we returned to Sodom and Gomorrah. While it may not be a literal Bible translation, I think it is clear that what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah was an outbreak of horrible STDs including AIDS like illnesses, as a result of not following the natural laws of God. An imagine that without the antibiotics and other ameliorative treatments that lessen an STD patient’s suffering today.
Every child a one-ton child. The one tons are exempt from the CAFE standards!
Condoms in schools was about forever shifting the debate from IF children have sex to WHEN.
The feminists and other sex positive advocates like Reich and Kinsey see it as a birthright and want everyone to be sexually active at every age and no moral judgments over sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).
This is a federally funded agenda of indoctrination. The culture is being torn down and replaced by a new order.
They oppose abstinence for heterosexuals just as they oppose counseling to supress homosexual desires. They see all supression of sexual lusts to be unhealthy. So they issue reports that say it is “unhealthy” and “doesn’t work anyway”. They oppose it in principal. All such “studies” are politically motivated and they report the findings that sell the story.
In the end it matters not to them if abstinence is not “unhealthy” or if homosexuality is environmental and not genetic. They want an end to all moral judgements over sex. That is the root ideology at work.
Socialists lie. Always.
LOL!
Of course there are minor males who’ve impregnated their adult female teachers and are “fathers” without an income or degree (even from Jr. High) but this didn’t matter to Michael and he didn’t see the gravity of the harm adults do in seducing minors of the same sex into a period of homosexuality or the students' regret for engaging in aberrant sexual behavior.
Without a Supreme Being to pass judgement, it would only be man’s laws that matter. That’s what they want. They want man to be the ultimate judge of behavior, and that no one believes in any higher authority. That way, if they don’t get caught, it didn’t happen. I really think that people who believe solely in man’s law really think that if something can’t be proven in court, it didn’t happen. It’s that slippery slope from a tree falling in a forest and not making a “sound”.
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