Posted on 09/15/2005 6:26:31 AM PDT by Mershon
Abusing Gods Children By Brian Mershon MichNews.com Sep 14, 2005
In this regard, we recall what the Holy Father teaches in Familiaris consortio: "The Church is firmly opposed to an often widespread form of imparting sex information dissociated from moral principles. That would merely be an introduction to the experience of pleasure and a stimulus leading to the loss of serenity -- while still in the years of innocence -- by opening the way to vice". Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, Pontifical Council for the Family Guidelines for Education Within the Family (November 21, 1995)
Penis. Vagina. Buttocks. Anus.
Coming soon to your parish as part of your childrens religious education.
This is not a joke!
VIRTUSs Protecting Gods Children program insists repeatedly in the K-2 lesson plans for teachers that parents should begin teaching their children these private body part names when their children reach 18 months of age! Cant wait to have juniors grandparents over to show off for them the first words of little Johnny! The sexperts and sexologists are so much more progressive than us silly parents. Apparently, so are our bishops.
Shocking to see such words in a Catholic publication? Welcome to dozens of U.S. Bishops response to the homosexual clergy abuse crisis in the Church. This sex abuse prevention program, not sex education as the program itself insists, is one of the most popular religious education and Catholic school curricula chosen by orthodox and modernist bishops alike to help arm our children to protect themselves against whom?
You have to be kidding, you ask me. Well, lesson plan three for the K-2 grade curriculum, which is an opt-in session, meaning that unsuspecting parents will need to sign a statement opting their children into this program, has the four grammar words shown above, as well as some others just as shocking, to ensure we are protecting our children, from whom again?
The USCCBs own report from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice study confirmed what many had always suspected. More than 85 percent of all of the sex abuse cases were by priests and bishops with pubescent and post-pubescent boys and young men (ages 11 to 17). www.usccb.org/nrb/johnjaystudy/ In other words, according to these conclusions, homosexual priests and bishops were responsible for the vast majority of the sex abuse cases documented by the Church for the period of time of the study.
But wait! VIRTUSs Protecting Gods Children introductory video presents us with several myths, particularly this evidently very important one. This video can be downloaded at their website at www.virtus.org/virtus/preview_pgc.cfm. One of the myths that is quickly presented in this first video, to be shown to thousands of youth teachers, volunteers, religion teachers and even extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, is that homosexuals are more likely to cause sexual abuse than heterosexuals. The video goes on to emphasize in the next slide that heterosexuals cause more abuse than homosexuals.
Of course, 98 percent of the population is known to be heterosexual, while only 2 percent has homosexual inclinations. So, for the total number of abuse cases based on studies in the U.S., this myth by itself may be true. However, the problem with this statistic is that a homosexual male is more than 100 times more likely to abuse a teenage boy than a heterosexual male. I have taken my own informal survey from friends of mine. They have all categorically stated that as heterosexual men, they have no sexual attraction toward teenage boys. And remember, the Bishops own report showed 85 percent of pubescent and post-pubescent boys being sexually abused by priests and bishops, which means they had homosexual inclinations. But dont worry, the Bishops awareness program will teach these 5 to 8-year-olds to be able to protect themselves.
Well, lets get back to lesson plan three for the K-2 curriculum, and compare it to authoritative teaching on this subject. What makes this K-12 program particularly insidious is that its developers have lifted carefully selected Scripture passages and Catechism quotes to give it so-called Catholic window dressing. However, these proof texts have nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the lesson plan. In other words, just because Sacred Scripture speaks about Christs Body (The Church) and its members, it does not follow that He was referring specifically about teaching children their clinical body parts as a protection device in religion class or in Catholic grade schools as part of its sex abuse awareness curriculum. In fact, in the name of purity and modesty and chastity (words NOT used in ANY of the lesson plans of the entire course), Christ Himself would have never brought such scandal to young children.
Remember, this, or a similar program, with a slightly different name, most likely has been mandated by your bishop, no matter which diocese you reside in, as his response to the fact that homosexual clergy molested hundreds of teenage boys and young men, in thousands of known instances. This program is somehow going to prevent these sexual perverts and predators from harming your children. In fact, it is supposed to empower your children to ward off potential unsafe adults and their unsafe touches. One of the first stages is for your Catholic school teachers and religion teachers to teach them the clinical names of their private body parts. No, really Im not making this up. The Ph.D. level sexologists, psychologists, psycho-therapists and sociologist Oh yes and our bishops all agree. And we know they are much smarter than us, and much smarter than the Vatican and authoritative Church teaching!
Paragraph No. 78 from The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality states the following:
It can be said that a child is in the stage described in John Paul II's words as "the years of innocence" from about five years of age until puberty -- the beginning of which can be set at the first signs of changes in the boy or girl's body (the visible effect of an increased production of sexual hormones). This period of tranquility and serenity must never be disturbed by unnecessary information about sex. During those years, before any physical sexual development is evident, it is normal for the child's interests to turn to other aspects of life. The rudimentary instinctive sexuality of very small children has disappeared. Boys and girls of this age are not particularly interested in sexual problems, and they prefer to associate with children of their own sex. So as not to disturb this important natural phase of growth, parents will recognize that prudent formation in chaste love during this period should be indirect, in preparation for puberty, when direct information will be necessary.
Apparently, most priests and most bishops in the good ole U.S. of A. have never read this document from 1995. Apparently, most of them do not have the Catholic sense to review in detail the curriculum they have mandated to be taught in diocesan parish schools and religion classes by September 30 in many cases.
Surely, the orthodox Bishops will put a stop to this. My bishop would never allow this, you say. I thought the same thing. After e-mailing dozen of messages regarding the VIRTUSs consultants checkered backgrounds with the culture of death and the recommended book lists for this curriculum, showing many direct ties to Planned Parenthood-backed and promoted books and contacts, the response I received from my diocesan office was the following.
My e-mail address has been blocked for incoming messages. Apparently, I hit a nerve. Surely, they didnt do this intentionally. In fact, I called and spoke to the priest who is in charge of the program in my diocese, initially expressing my concerns. Of course, after the token respect and wordsmithing that is typical in so many chanceries throughout AmChurch, he must have believed I was appeased. Apparently, although there is no such thing as the Index of Forbidden Books any more, there is an index of forbidden incoming e-mail addresses. Perhaps the words in the text I was sending were being blocked by the automatic filter of the diocesan computer system. Or perhaps, because my e-mail list of concerned Catholic parents had grown, it was detecting this as spam.
OK. Ill give them the benefit of the doubt, I decided. I will e-mail them separately, and one at a time if necessary. Nope. Still blocked, banned and censored, for trying to protect my children and others from my dioceses own incompetence. A priest friend recommended that I call His Excellency directly. Okay, I thought. I have spoken to the bishop on the telephone on other unrelated matters before. Surely, he doesnt know what is in this curriculum. Surely, he has the Catholic sense to remove this stuff from his diocesan schools and religious education programs immediately.
Two phone calls to his voicemail more than a week ago. Finally, after listing some specific questions, such as the following, I received a response from the bishops media guy that said in effect that the bishop had not reviewed the childrens component in its entirety, and then later the diocese sent out a letter stating that Lesson Plan number 3 could be removed from the program. The diocesan response also said that due to lack of time, finances and resources, the entire childs component (Touching Safety is the new and revised VIRTUS-backed Protecting Gods Children program) has not been reviewed appropriately. They would be making changes and assessing it for next year.
But this year, I guess it is OK for our children to have their innocence destroyed!
Beware of the Bait and Switch
It is a long-term strategy and well-known plan of the sex educators of the past 40 years to drop their curriculum on unsuspecting teachers at the last moment with a mandate to have it implemented as soon as possible. It is also a well known strategy to go back and remove the offensive elements of a curriculum after receiving a small, but vocal uprising from concerned parents.
After this customary dust-up, the approach of Well remove the most offensive parts or those parts you find most objectionable from the curriculum. After all, We havent really had any other complaints so far except from you.
Of course, at first they will try to appease the concerned parents (known as fundamentalists or right-wing Puritans) by insisting the curriculum states that parents are the primary educators, and of course, your child can opt out of the entire program if you would like.
In other words, in Catholic schools, by mandate of our beloved bishops interests in protecting our children from the homosexual perverts and predators in their ranks, I have the right to opt-out my child from this perverted curriculum, while the vast majority of K-2 students learn the body part names (as well as draw body parts, but not the private ones as the teacher calls them out, during a session on drawing body parts on their own silhouettes in swimsuits no less), all so my child can then go back into classrooms with these same sex abuse educated children. Then, they can go home and show Mommy and Daddy and their younger brothers and sisters (as long as they are at least 18 months of age!) how they can draw body parts on their bodies with swimsuits, but refrain from drawing penises, vaginas, anuses, buttocks when the teachers announces these private body parts aloud in front of the whole class well, you get the picture, unfortunately.
So the drawing the body parts on the silhouette will be offered to you as being all right, because even the though the teachers are instructed to name out loud, the private body parts are the parts the children are not supposed to draw. So, well just eliminate lesson plan three, and everything else will be all right. The Bishop approved this program, you know. You dont want to be disobedient. He is a descendant of the Apostles.
But I thought the Bishop hadnt reviewed the program?
Riggghhhhhhhttttt Remember, this is mandated to be taught in some form or fashion at your diocesan Catholic school to your schoolchildren. But if they cant get them there, then theyll get it from volunteer teachers at your 45 minute religious education classes this year, for a total of at least three sessionsK-12.
Now, some will state, Okay, you have made your case. This stuff should not be taught to the younger children, but what about the middle school and high school adolescents? Surely, there is some need for this there.
According to the Churchs long-held teaching on the principle of subsidiarity, the family is primarily charged with the duty of teaching the full understanding from a Catholic perspective on the truth and meaning of human sexuality. In fact, the subtitle of the 1995 document is Guidelines for Education Within the Family. That is rightwithin the family.
But perhaps some modern, deconstructionist Scripture Scholar can reinterpret this subtitle to mean something exactly the opposite of what it states. Perhaps the Bishops and Priests are too deconstructed by the plain meaning of words to understand the plain meaning of education within the home. But I digress
Ideally, age-appropriate talks on sexuality, chastity, modesty, purity, holiness and biology will be done as the child matures and begins to ask questions to his mother or his father. In fact, the document with the very title of the name in quotation marks above, says that the mother will ideally impart the information to the daughter, with the father to the son. Only if the parents delegate such tasks to others (the Church), should this chastity, modesty, purity and human sexuality information be imparted. And even then, it should never be done in a mixed class setting of boys and girls, or with a male teacher to females and/or vice versa. Ideally, and preferably, it should be done with the teachers assisting the parents with suitable Catholic curricula (not Planned Parenthood or SIECUS-adapted sources) with irrelevant Scripture verses and Catechism paragraphs proof-texted as Catholic window dressing. Even at the older grades.
According to the principle of subsidiarity, Catholic parents should ask for help and assistance from the Church and/or other experts in teaching these concepts to their children. Have any of you asked for this assistance from your Catholic priests, teachers and bishops? I know that none of my friends nor my wife and I have requested it. Remember, this or similar programs were mandated by the U.S. bishops as a response to the fact that homosexual priests and bishops, in 85 percent of the cases that were tracked, sexually abused and molested pubescent and post-pubescent boys. Because of this, all Church volunteers and children need to be armed this vital information to destroy their innocence, plant a low view of human sexuality in their minds forever, and become proximate occasions of sin.
Oh, yes, but the U.S. Church has paid out nearly $1 billion in claims and several dioceses have declared monetary bankruptcy (although spiritually bankrupt for dozens of years of course) as the temporal punishment due to sin. These programs are designed to protect your children. That is why your signature, whether you attend, or your child attends these sessions or not, is so important. The diocese needs your signature. The attorneys and the insurance company demand it. That is why you need to be fingerprinted in the Diocese of Arlington, and elsewhere. The Church must share your fingerprints with the State authorities to protect your children.
So, what about the older childrens curriculum? Surely, that stuff could be used in Catholic schools and in religion classes, couldnt it?
More to come
Copyright 2005 by Brian Mershon
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Bump.
Does anyone have a problem with teaching children the proper names of body parts? My boys were taught "penis" from day one.
ping. Sorry if I double pinged some of you. This is coming soon to YOUR diocese if it is not already there. This is an abusive program designed to get your children.
In a religious education class or classroom in Catholic schools? What does this have to do with teaching faith and morals?
Does the term proximate occasion of sin come to mind for you? Does the embarrassment of the children (which should be sign No. 1)mean anything? It is called a proximate occasion of sin as well as child abuse to mandate parents do this BY THE CHURCH with this program with ties to the culture of death.
Evidently, you did not read the column. Evidently, you disagree with Familiaris Consortio and The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality. Evidently, you have missed the entire point of the article.
It is the parents' primary responsibility to teach these things to our children at an age-appropriate level. The pedagogy with all of this stuff is severely flawed.
You teach your children what/how you want. The Catholic schools and religious education programs are supposed to be teaching faith and morals. Since there is no morality involved in this insidious program, this means Catholic schools and parishes should not be teaching it. Otherwise, just call themselves "dissenting Catholic" schools.
Evidently, you want to be agumentative. I am polite to you and I expect the same.
I agree the parents should be teaching it. But I think parents are too nervous to do it right. Too many parents still ignore sex or just say "don't".
That may be so (and what is 'right' anyway?) but I still don't want a stranger (CCD teacher) teaching my kids about sex or sexual 'part' names. I have the same feeling about 'sex ed' classes in public schools.
If the material is so great how come we never have access to it before it is put in place? Oftentimes, the teachers receive guides/guidelines but there is no printed material in book/handout form. So the bulk of the lessons are outlined but the teachers have great leeway.
That doesn't give anyone else the right to take over that parental prerogative.
Do Catholic schools teach sex ed? Is it different parocial vs. academy? Mine are in a private, non-sectarian school and they have it. I know public schools do it.
I don't have a problem with our lower school science teacher teaching sex ed. There was no agenda in the info and they are in a boy's school, so dividing by genders and embarrassment weren't issues. Our school offered the sex ed materials to any parent that wanted it; we had a meeting about a month or two before the course and it was out on the tables for any parent to look at/take with them. Of course, we talk to them about sex frequently, mostly about values and feelings now that they have the basics.
I think CCD is an odd place for sex ed, since all the kids have gotten in public or private school. Though with the sexual abuse issues (and we keep getting more here in Philly) a course on good touch/bad touch could make some sense.
As far as teaching real names for body parts, I'm all for it. That's where I see a real squeamishness in parents come out early and where insecurity about the body can develop in the kids. And insecure kids are greater targets for molesters.
I don't have a problem with sex ed being offered in our school. The teacher gives out the materials months before and anyone can opt their child out.
That's fine -- as long as it's done that way.
Lawyers.
"First thing, let's kill all the ......."
Of course, severe bodily damage to predator-perverts is not forbidden.
Don't you understand? A bunch of gay priests abused teenage boys, so therefore every parent, teacher, and volunteer has to be trained not to be a pervert, and toddlers have to be trained to know all about sex so they can give accurate testimony after they're abused. Duh.
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