(By the way, I never knew that was Patricia “Magenta” Quinn playing Cleese’s wife.)
Posted on 06/08/2010 1:58:00 PM PDT by NYer
RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Schools in North Carolina are preparing to implement the "Healthy Youth Act," which was signed on June 30, 2009 and is set to take effect in the 2010-11 school year. It states that students from 7th to 9th grade should be taught "about the effectiveness and safety of all FDA-approved contraceptive methods in preventing pregnancy."
This means that they will be taught about male and female condoms, diaphragms, sponges, cervical caps, spermicides, oral contraceptives, contraceptive rings, the abortifacient "morning after pill," and other methods of birth control, unless their parents explicitly request that they be excluded from these classes.
The measure was backed by the ACLU of North Carolina, Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice NC, the North Carolina Association of Educators, and the "gay-rights" group Equality NC.
The original version of the bill would have required schools to offer both an abstinence-only curriculum and a comprehensive sex education program, allowing parents to decide which program their child would attend. It was modified, however, so that students will attend "comprehensive sexual education" unless parents affirmatively opt them out of it.
Prior to the Healthy Youth Act, abstinence-only education predominated in North Carolina schools. School boards were required to hold public hearings before schools could offer “comprehensive” sexual education. The ACLU of North Carolina hailed the law because it eliminated this requirement. Such hearings, the ACLU stated, would now be "a thing of the past."
Nevertheless, the Healthy Youth Act also states that abstinence from sexual activity is to be taught as "the expected standard for all school-age children." It also instructs schools to teach that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain means of avoiding pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Finally, it also instructs classes to teach that "a mutually faithful monogamous heterosexual relationship in the context of marriage is the best lifelong means of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS."
The ACLU and the homosexualist Equality NC decried such aspects of the bill. Equality NC stated that it was "disappointed [that] the final bill left in inaccurate and discriminatory language from the existing curriculum."
But it nevertheless maintained that the law was a "huge step forward."
See related stories on LifeSiteNews.com:
Wisconsin Senate Passes Bill Banning Abstinence-Only Education in Schools
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10020112.html
Wisconsin Ponders Replacing Abstinence-Only Program with Contraceptive Sex Ed
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09103017.html
(By the way, I never knew that was Patricia “Magenta” Quinn playing Cleese’s wife.)
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One for the ARTH list, too. More evidence (as if any more were needed) that sending kids to public school is butchery.
Most parents won't even know this stuff is being taught so they won't know to opt out; plus even if a kid is opted out, he or she will wonder what the heck the classes are about, and the other kids will tell them. So this will affect every child who goes to these schools. They're not taught the basics (the Constitution was mentioned), or about the value of family life, monogamy, waiting until marriage, etc. They're just taught how to prevent pregnancy without a pinch of morality or virtue at all. Such things are now considered hateful because they are founded on religion. Only Vice and Evil can be taught in schools, according to the ACLU.
Children need protection from the promotion of vice, not sent to school to be saturated in such promotion.
Excellent comments on the thread!
In any other context, an adult’s getting together with a 7th grader (12 years old!) to discuss these subjects would be actionable sexual abuse. How could this *not* desensitize young teenagers about sexual approaches from adults?
Of course the ACLU and the homosexual organizations support it: they want to have sex with 12-year-olds!
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am 38 year sold, and I do not know what an abortifacient is
anything, usually a drug, which causes an abortion. The “morning after” pill is such a drug.....if fertilization occured, it kills the baby.
Don’t you wonder how the race managed to reproduce itself without “proper “sex education.. maybe we were just smarter and figured it out for ourselves
Birth control pills are also now known to be Abortifacients
Sex is a very basic urge. With proper guidance from parents, things seemed to have worked out well for most of time, until now.
Now what I wonder about now is rampant homosexuality, espeially lesbianism. I really think that it is a result of the indoctrination of young children by sicko lefties who need to keep this stuff out of classrooms until much, much later in the very least.
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An oversight that will corrected in next year’s curriculum.
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