Posted on 04/17/2002 12:16:55 PM PDT by RWBaral
I. FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL, News Headline Retrieved: "Physician's Consortium-Sexual Messages in Govenment-Promoted Progrqams"
Story: The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) is using taxpayer dollare to promote explicit and graphic "comprehensive sex education" curriculum for teenage consumption, according to a Physician's Consortium report released April 10. "Sexual Messages in GOvernment-Promoted Programs" describes the kind of messages and activities included in CDC-sponsored programs, some of which are promoted as "abstinence-plus."
The Consortium's findings were egregious enough that researchers preparing the report for publication found it necessary to warn readers sardonically that "the content of the enclosed report is intended for teens and may be too explicit for adults." Because of the sensitive nature of the report's contents, FRC has chosed to post only the introductory summary of the report.
To obtain a copy of the full report, contact the FRD Press Office at (202)-393-2100.
FIRST PAGE ONLY OF PHYSICIANS CONSORTIUM REPORT, "SEXUAL MESSAGES IN GOVERNMENT-PROMOTED PROGRAMS AND TODAY'S YOUTH CULTURE:
While it is safe to say that most parents have the desire to raise health, well-informed young adults, it is likely that a great nuymber of them would be shocked if they know what was actually being taught to their children. In a review of the various "CDC Programs That Work," it was found that the concept of abstinence was typically only briefly mentioned, if at all.
Many "Programs That Work" promoted by the CDC have been referred to as "Abstinence-Puls" or "Abstinence-Based" education. Despite this benign name, a review of many "Abstinence-Plus" programs seem to be only thinly-disguised "safe sex" programs preoccupied with promoting condom use among young people.
In the typical "Abstinence-Plus" program, students are required to go to the store to find condoms, learn about lubricants (including "grape jelly, maple syrup and honey,"), and brainstorm "ways tomake condoms fun and pleasurable" (such as planning a special day when they can experiment). In tyhe classroom, students practice using condoms by unrolling them on items such as cucumbers or dildoes. The implicit message in most of these programs is that sexual activity by young people is both expected and accepted by society.
Abstinence is the only practical and safe way to prevent the sexually transmitted diseases and non-marital pregnancy epidemics. In the pages that follow, it can be seen that the information currently being taught to the young people in our society, whether in schools, outside programs or via teen websites and magazines, does a great disservice to the cause of protecting this generation from physical and emotional harm. --------------------------------------------------------- II. "CDC links to pro-sex teen site (blackline-small.gif)," by Robert Stacy McCain, THE WASHINGTON
A Federal web site features a link to the internet pages of "pro-sex" activists who provice teenagers with explicit advice about homosexuality, sodomy and masturbation.
Listings for "youth" resources on a Centres for Disease Control and PRevention (CDC) site, includes a link to the COaltion for POsitive Sexuality (CPS), a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group.
"If you think you might be queer, relax!" the CPS site urges teens, and offers this suggestion: "If you think you are queer, try to find a lesbian/bisexual/gay/transgender community centre near you, where you can meet other queers your age."
THe CDC site's "youth" links include the Advocates for Youth site, which promotes activism to overturn FEderal abstinence education policies.
A Department of Agriculture spokeswoman said yesterday the department would remove a link to CPS from one of its websites. THat site, www.cyfernet.org, includes "positive youth development" links to the sex advice site Go Ask Alice and to Planned Parenthood's Teenwire site.
"We are in the process of taking down the link to CPS," public affairs specialist Maria BYnum dais yesterday afternoon. "And we will work with the Cyfernet program office and the university partners to review the other sites and determine what the next steps are."
The Federal internet links have come under fire from the Physicians Consortium, a Pennsylvania-based public policy group.
I'm guessing there is a little bit of hard work necessary from you too. Keep up the good work.
Please don't do that. The world needs more loving, caring parents like you.
Heh, gaming machine's are evil, EVIL I tell you. Dont be silly, most gaming 'nerds' are the ones making straight As in school and most druggies, etc even if they do play video games are playing sports games, because its about as difficult a concept as they can understand. Believe me. Very very very few games have ANY sexual themes in them at all. The only one I can think of that is mainstream that did was Duke Nukem 3d which came out in 1996 I believe and it wasn't even close to the main theme.
They will never wake up because there are precious few Americans who know how to be a parent. They all rely on TV and the experts and the govt. schools to socialize and raise their children for them. Most parents today are products of bad parents themselves and do not have the ability or the will to parent properly. They can't convey what they themselves do not possess. If daddy is an amoral clueless parent, it is likely that sonny will be also as the apple never falls far from the tree.
Please forgive some of us for being remiss in first consulting our 'Emily Post' guide to posting a thread or else the "pinkys out" crowd won't freak out.
Maple syrup? I will never look at a plate of pancakes the same way again.
Notice the qualification "unmonitored". It's not just the content of the machine, but the unchecked access time. Leads to homework not being done and so forth as well as lack of attention to all things not gaming.
BTW, I have games myself and games I bought for the children.
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