Posted on 03/22/2006 4:48:07 PM PST by Diago
In the first reading today, God, speaking through His prophet Malachi, speaks to the priests and says to them, You have turned aside from the way I have taught you, and you have led many astray by your instructions. Therefore, I have made you contemptible before the people. Never before have these words been so true as they are now. What I have to say today is a tragedy, but it needs to be said because once again the bishops of the United States are trying to cause a scandal and to destroy our children. Parents need to be aware of what is going on.
Back in 2002, after the bishops very hastily put together something that they call Protecting God’s Children, the charter for protecting children from sexual abusers, one of the things that was put in there, and this is something that is certainly laudatory, is that they wanted to raise awareness of child sexual abuse in all of the dioceses of the United States. Well, they have just recently interpreted their document to determine that that means every single diocese in the United States is absolutely required to have programs that are going to raise this awareness. Again, by itself that sounds very good; however, there are two different elements to this thing.
The first part of it is something that all employees, as well as all volunteers who would work with children in any capacity, are required to take. We just did that last week under obedience from the archbishop, and what I can tell you is the program by itself was worthless enough.
It was fairly innocuous, didn’t say much, except for two points that really stuck out. Number one, they were presenting a series of myths regarding sexual abuse.
One of the myths that they put up there was that homosexuals are more likely to commit child sexual abuse than heterosexuals. The reason they put that up there is because if you look at the numbers in America, first of all, remembering that only 2% of people in America call themselves homosexual (98% do not), they look at the numbers and they say, “Look, these 98% of the people committed more crimes of sexual abuse than these 2%.”
That is true enough. However, if you look at the ratio of sex abuse crimes committed by the 2% as opposed to the 98%, there is no comparison. In fact, in the Church more than 85% of all the sexual abuse cases that have been pressed or come forward are homosexual. So it is a deceptive lie.
Then they went on to say something else which really struck a chord in me; it said, “Parents must monitor all programs that their children would be involved in.” Well, I couldn’t agree more, except that the program the bishops are forcing upon our children the parents are not allowed to monitor.
That is the reason why I am here to speak against this, because you need to know for the sake of your children what is going on.
First of all, the bishops hired a woman by the name of Teresa Kettelkamp to be the head of this Protecting God’s Children program. Ms. Kettelkamp has affiliations with some pro-abortion movements and organizations–the Feminist Majority, for instance. Ms. Kettelkamp claims that she is not pro-abortion, but at the same time she also claimed that she has never heard of or met a woman named Eleanor Smeal, who is the head of the Feminist Majority.
But it is very interesting that if you looked on their website, Ms. Kettelkamp was on an advisory board for an arm of that particular organization, and she also received an award from that organization that is called the “Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award.” That is annually given by Eleanor Smeal at a banquet. So unless Ms. Smeal was sick or something that night, there is no possible way that Ms. Kettelkamp could not have known who she was and she certainly cannot claim that she has never met her.
This woman recently sent out a memo to every bishop in the country. In that memo she said that every single child in a Catholic school setting, whether that be the regular school or CCD, is required to take a “Safe Touch Program.” Now, mind you, this starts in kindergarten.
There are only two groups of children who do not have to take it: number one, children who have had a similar program in a public school (Since when do we teach regarding sexuality exactly what they teach in the public school about sexuality?); and number two, the parents who will sign a form for the insurance company to opt out of this hideous program. Even if you decide to opt your children out of the program, of course they are going to come back into the classroom with a bunch of kids who have just been through the program and they are going to be affected by it anyway.
But the reason why Ms. Kettelkamp tells us that every child in the Catholic schools is absolutely required to take this is because we cannot trust parents to teach their children these things because we know, she says, that some child abuse takes place in the home.
Isn’t it interesting that the reason this unfortunate thing was even started is because of all the child sexual abuse that has taken place in the Church, yet we are going to say that because a few occasions of child sexual abuse take place in the home we therefore are going to vilify all parents and we are going to say that we cannot trust parents to teach their kids. But we in the Church–who have scandalized the whole world by what is going on–we can trust ourselves to teach our children what is good for them.
Well, I recently had an opportunity, much to my chagrin, to be able to see one of the books. This by itself was pretty astounding because as a parent if you want to monitor this program they will not let you. In the dioceses where such programs have been implemented, parents who have objected just tend to get pushed aside. If they continue to press then they show them a marketing book. Of course, they took everything offensive out of that particular book so the parents can look at that. And if you continue to push, reluctantly they will allow you to sit down in a principal’s office and look at the book that your five-year-old is looking at. I got to look at that book and it was disgusting.
Keep in mind also before I say anything else that a number of the supplementary materials on the bishop’s list of books that the children should be looking at are approved by Planned Parenthood. At least four of the people on the Board of Directors for this program that we are being required to take that they call VIRTUS, which interestingly is a word that means “truth,” have some very, very unfortunate affiliations with Planned Parenthood organizations, or Planned Parenthood affiliated organizations, or SIECUS, which is a radical feminist pro-abortion group. Yet these are the ones who are telling us what our kids ought to be looking at.
In this particular book, which I will spare you the details, it began by having our five-year-old children, after looking at a line drawing of a bunch of nude people, turn the page and they have anatomically correct names for all of the genitalia and the children are to repeat these out loud three times. These are five-year-olds. I had to go back and call a friend of mine who is a nurse and say, “Can you tell me what this word means?
I’ve never heard it before.” But our five-year-olds are supposed to be repeating it. They claim that this is not a sex-ed course, but rather they say, “This is a Safe Touch course.”
In one of the books, after repeating all of the vulgar words as well other things, the children then are to draw pictures on a silhouette of various body parts, although it says, “Not the private ones.” They just repeat the words for the private parts, but they don’t have to draw those.
These things are nothing short of disgusting, and, if I may say, they completely violate the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. Let me read to you from Paragraph No. 78 of the Vatican document called The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality:
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One of the myths that they put up there was that homosexuals are more likely to commit child sexual abuse than heterosexuals. The reason they put that up there is because if you look at the numbers in America, first of all, remembering that only 2% of people in America call themselves homosexual (98% do not), they look at the numbers and they say, “Look, these 98% of the people committed more crimes of sexual abuse than these 2%.”
That is true enough. However, if you look at the ratio of sex abuse crimes committed by the 2% as opposed to the 98%, there is no comparison. In fact, in the Church more than 85% of all the sexual abuse cases that have been pressed or come forward are homosexual. So it is a deceptive lie.
"One of the myths that they put up there was that homosexuals are more likely to commit child sexual abuse than heterosexuals."
I'm presuming that this is a typo; heterosexual and homosexual should be switched.
I think this is garbled phrasing. The author means that the program said, " 'Homosexuals are more likely to commit child sexual abuse than heterosexuals,' is a myth."
BTTT! Thanks, Diago!
Ah, Thank You ! I can see how it is meant now. And yes that is exactly what the program teaches.
There were about 25 people in my class and I was the only person to challenge the way the idea was presented. Perhaps I shouldn't have done it but I thought the homosexual aspects of this were presented in order to deceive the attendants. Eventually the class instructor brought out further materials that suggested that ebophilia is normal for homosexuals!
I just sat through it -- I had patches to sew on Scout uniforms for three kids and my husband, and the program took exactly that long :-).
We "opted out" of the presentations for kids. Simple enough, just turn in a form and don't show up. I'm puzzled by the author's claiming that this information is being presented to children without their parents' knowledge. Our DRE had the syllabi for each age group posted on a bulletin board outside her office, along with a folder of the forms for "opt out."
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