Posted on 03/06/2011 4:43:47 PM PST by lastchance
NEW YORK, March 3 (C-FAM) Graphic sex education for youth is the new battleground at the UN, as evidenced by side events during the past week at the Commission on the Status of Women.
The theme of this year’s CSW is the “access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology.” While delegates are busy negotiating resolutions and outcome documents, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN organizations campaign for the installation of socially radical curriculums in Africa and America alike.
“Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education,” Diane Schneider told the audience at a panel on combating homophobia and transphobia. Schneider, representing the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the US, advocated for more “inclusive” sex education in US schools, with curricula based on liberal hetero and homosexual expression. She claimed that the idea of sex education remains an oxymoron if it is abstinence-based, or if students are still able to opt-out.
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But, they won’t be fined - not as long as the union is in the picture. The teachers in WI who walked off the job are getting their sick pay. The union will see to it that nothing happens.
How will teaching about orgasms and masturbation increase “access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology”?Why do liberals persist in confounding sexuality with sexual equality? Juggling housework, child care, and multiple jobs while the father refuses to take responsibility for his own offspring: yeah, that sounds really liberating. /s
“Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education” What for? Most teens and tweens already watch poisonous TV shows that promote all of the above. I guess it’s about indoctrinating the ones whose parents are wise to the corrosive influence of most TV programs.
It’s “the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity”. No, it’s not. It is not the school’s job to teach values, be they conservative or liberal. Schools should teach children the skills they need to prepare for college or a trade. Here’s a novel concept Ms. Schneider: if you’re so concerned about heterosexism and gender conformity, why don’t YOU teach YOUR children YOUR values and leave it at that? If liberal parents want to teach their children liberal values, that’s their prerogative, but trying to sexualize everybody else’s children in accordance with their idea of utopia is a waste of class time at best and a blatant display of hubris at worst. Liberals: they tolerate all manner of cultures and beliefs except those that are different from their beliefs.
I don’t know - I think it’s better to learn some things the hard way...
Your advocacy for the tactic of defunding the union is making more sense to me the more I think about it.
Not to get ahead of myself, but I find myself wondering that if we successfully eliminated funding, some liberal judge will overturn it with one contemptuous bang of a gavel.
First things first, I suppose.
Like Henry Ford:
You can have your Model 'T' in any color just so long as it is black.
You obviously don’t know very much about what Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians believe about the Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. You probably don’t even know the difference between the “Immaculate Conception” and the “Virgin Birth”. I’m not going to waste any more of my breath arguing theology with you, but why do you suppose one of Jesus’ disciples took care of Mary after the Crucifiction instead of her own supposed children, if as you say, she had any?
Correction: Crucifixion.
I’m all for orgasms, and I sure don’t want the UN in charge of them.
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This is really getting intense. The fiends from hell are in charge and want to drag our kids to the nether regions with them.
"“Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education,” Diane Schneider told the audience at a panel on combating homophobia and transphobia. Schneider, representing the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the US, advocated for more “inclusive” sex education in US schools, with curricula based on liberal hetero and homosexual expression. She claimed that the idea of sex education remains an oxymoron if it is abstinence-based, or if students are still able to opt-out."
I can only assume that "transphobia" means disgust of transgendered freakazoids.
I think we need a picture of Heironymous Bosch's hell. Anyone have any ideas of when we can have us some mass civil disobedience?
And to rub salt and cayenne pepper into the wound, this fiendish teachers’ union no doubt somehow receives public monies; at the least their salaries are paid for by the taxpayers, and property taxes are squeezed from people to keep the Gates Of Hell (aka “public screwels”) open for business.
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Ping to the homeschool list as well.
It's not often that I feel the need to ping the homescool list to threads concerning the public schools, but this is certainly the time to make the exception.
Giving hormone flooded teens information like that about sex is like giving an alcoholic booze.
The only question I have is...when are all of the public, or socialist schools going to be converted to private schools and the property tax eliminated!? Is it going to take Jesus to do it?
I would observe that the Holy Scriptures only speak of Mary, the Mother of God (want to quarrel about that? Jesus is God. Mary is His mother. The Third Ecumenical Council settled that long before the Sixth finally, definitively fixed the canon of Scripture by giving the canons of the Council of Carthage ecumenical force) as Joseph's betrothed wife. As you think that you must reconstruct everything from the Scriptures, having no access to the recollection of the Church of her own history (what we call Tradition -- a category that includes the Scriptures at its core, not something distinct from them), you may be forgiven for not knowing that the point of the betrothal of the aged widower Joseph (not the strapping young fellow intent on a life of continence depicted in Latin religious art) to the Virgin Mary was to allow her to keep a vow of perpetual virginity after she could no longer live in the Temple at Jerusalem, not to consummate a marriage. Our Lord's brothers and sisters were Joseph's children by his first wife, Salome.
If you ever see an Orthodox icon of the Flight to Egypt, the Holy Family has four members -- the infant Jesus, Mary, Joesph, and a young man, St. James, later the first Bishop of Jerusalem, who presided over the Apostolic Council recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. St. James is titled "Brother of the Lord" in Orthodox hagiography because alone among Jesus' legal foster-brothers, he was willing to accept Christ as his brother and share their inheritance from Joseph.
As to Mary's life after her Son, Our Lord's Resurrection. You will recall that on the Cross, Our Lord gave her into the care of "the disciple whom He loved" (the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John's circumlocution for himself), which command St. John briefly under the same circumlocution reports obeying. Now if Mary had had other children with Joseph, it would have been their duty under the Law to take care of her. How then does Our Lord give her into the care of St. John? Again, you have no access to the fact that the house where St. John lived with the Virgin Mary in his care in Ephesus is a site of pilgrimage to this day. The Fifth Ecumenical Council (again, from the Orthodox point of view, prior to the fixing of the canon of Scripture and by like authority to that by which the Church fixed the canon of Scripture) very clearly stated the Church's recollection that Mary indeed remained a virgin all her life, when this fact had been called into question the first time in the sixth Christian century. (I would note that even many of the "reformers" had no quarrel with the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, John Calvin springing most readily to mind as one who defended the notion, despite generally rejecting the teachings of the Latin church, having no apparent familiarity with the Orthodox teachings on the matter, and using the shortened canon of Scripture you favor as his starting point.)
Now, you are quite right to object to the picture of a rapture-like translation of the Blessed Virgin into heaven. The Virgin Mary died. The Church commemorates her Dormition, though the Church has always remembered, and therefore always taught, that her body was assumed into heaven after her death. But even the Latin church does not teach a rapture-like translation. Their dogmatization of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was defective in that it failed to condemn as heretical the view that Mary was assumed bodily into Heaven without undergoing death (a view popular in some segments of the Latin church at that time and to this day), but the Latin church does not teach that heresy, rather its dogma was worded ambiguously as to whether her bodily assumption into Heaven took place without her undergoing death (heresy) or after her death (the truth of the matter). Nor do the Latins actually teach that Mary is our "Coredeptrix", though again I will join you if you want to complain that they have been insufficiently forceful in denouncing such a notion, which has become popular in some quarters of their communion.
As to "conceived without sin", we Orthodox have always taught that Mary did not sin (Some don't qualify that, meaning she didn't sin, period. I hold by the school that adds the adjective "voluntarily", for we Orthodox Christian recognized there are involuntary sins, and not sinning at all is hard to square with "no man (anthropos) liveth and sinneth not, and Thou only art beyond sin"). The Latins, taking Blessed Augustine's view of "Original Sin" were rather stuck, and tried to fix the mismatch, not by returning to the broader patristic understanding of the Fall ("Ancestral Sin"), but by promulgating a doctrine that seems to me more of an engineering kludge than a heresy, the "Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary".
That said, I would point out that it was bizarre and ungracious of you to object to a pious Latin Christian asking the intercessions of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a ward against the depravity of our culture, one instance of which is the point of this thread.
"Most Holy Theotokos save us!" as we say in the East is an appropriate reaction to such depravity as is reported emanating from the NEA. (I have written too long already, so I will not unpack fully why and how the prayers of the Theotokos and the saints, who are not dead, but alive in Christ, are one of the means by which Christ's grace flows to us and saves us, not from our sins -- from which we are indeed saved by His Death and Glorious Resurrection -- but from and in the trials and temptations of this life.)
Wishing your a blessed Lent, whether you keep the season or not.
And if I have offended, forgive me, a sinner.
We need posters depicting Lot, and the crowds yelling for him to send out his daughters, etc!! That is what comes to mind for me every time I hear about this crazed agenda.
Diane Scneider needs to be horsewhipped.
THANK YOU.
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