Community organizing and sex education curricula...

When God's design as well as the prior parental right in the education of children are trampled under foot by arguably well-intentioned ideologues, pressure groups whose members share the same agenda form coalitions which, in turn, begin advocating cherished policies and programs, all "for the good of the children," of course.

The phenomenon is nothing new.

It's called "community organizing."

Consider, for example, Advocates for Youth, the American Association of Health Education, the American School Health Association, the National Education Association-Health Information Network, the Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education, and the Future of Sex Education Initiative.  These arguably well-intentioned ideologues have formulated a set of non-binding standards---The Future of Sex Education: National Sexuality Education Standards---which they would like the 50 states and nation's school districts to implement in public schools. The arguably well-intentioned goal is to inform students about matters some schools don't address and which the coalition believes every school must address appropriately.

And, what might those "matters" be?

If the coalition had its way, states and school districts would require students to engage in age-appropriate discussions about sex, bullying, and healthy relationships.  The coalition's goal is to offer minimum, but uniform standards that educators would use to construct a long-term sequential curriculum that will better assist young people attending schools to grow into adulthood.

As long as God's design and the prior parental right in education are respected, The Motley Monk thinks these are important curricular matters.

But, consider "Guiding Values and Principles #4" which states:

Sexuality education should teach both information and essential skills that are necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain healthy relationships and behaviors.

It sounds all so benign, no?

That is, until the standards are examined in greater detail.

By the end of the second grade, the coalition would like every elementary school student to use the proper names for body parts and, by the end of the fifth grade, to know that sexual orientation is "the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender."  Also by the end of the fifth grade, every student should be able to "define HIV and identify some age appropriate methods of transmission as well as ways to prevent transmission" and "define sexual harassment and abuse."

Every eighth grader should be able to:

• Differentiate between gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation;
• Explain the range of gender roles;
• Explain the health benefits, risks and effectiveness rates of various methods of contraception, including abstinence and condoms;
• Define emergency contraception and its use.

 

According to the President of Advocates for Youth, Debra Hauser, some schools don't address bullying which Hauser believes is related to sexual orientation or gender identity."  Educators should tackle it head-on," Hauser said.

Under the disguise of seeking to provide the nation's children an objective human sexuality curriculum, The Motley Monk would note that the standards reveal the coalition's intention: to indoctrinate the nation's children in its broader, pro-homosexual and pro-abortion ideology.

Seizing upon the hot topic of "bullying" and by relating it back to anti-homosexual bigotry, the coalition reveals its less-than-benign intent: To trample under foot God's design as well as the parental prior right in the education of their children.


Let the discussion begin...



To read the National Sexuality Education standards, click on the following link:

http://www.futureofsexed.org/documents/josh-fose-standards-web.pdf