Posted on 08/11/2011 3:39:01 PM PDT by NYer
NEW YORK, August 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The mayor of New York City plans to force all public middle and high school students to participate an explicit sex education regimen, a mandate the Archdiocese of New York is calling on Catholic parents to fight.
The New York Times reports that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg will require that each student take a semester of sexual education in either 6th or 7th grade, and again in 9th or 10th grade in both middle school and high school.
The city government is promoting two curriculum programs, entitled HealthSmart and Reducing the Risk. The materials promote abstinence alongside lessons for contraceptive methods, such as how to put on a condom, and explicit information on vaginal, anal and oral sex.
“HIV in semen, blood or vaginal fluids passes between partners through the thin mucus membranes of the penis, vagina, rectum or mouth,” states one pamphlet called “HIV Facts.”
In a pamphlet called “Birth Control Choices,” the company lists the “strong points” and “weak points” of various methods such as male and female condoms, hormonal contraceptives, and the temporary sterilizing drug Depo-provera. Abstinence is also listed as a form of “birth control” whose weak points include: “May feel pressured by friends, boyfriend or girlfriend.”
The Health Smart middle school curriculum also includes material aimed at “HIV, STD & pregnancy prevention.” The Times reports that parents will be allowed to opt children out of lessons on birth control methods.
Joseph Zwilling, Director of Communications for the Archdiocese, called the decision “troubling.”
“Parents have the right and the responsibility to be the first and primary educators of their children. This mandate by the city usurps that role, and allows the public school system to substitute its beliefs and values for those of the parents,” said Zwilling in a statement Wednesday.
Archdiocesan attorney Edward Mechmann told the New York Times that he would encourage parents to exercise the opt-out option for explicit material and to inspect lesson contents.
Brooklyn bishop Nicholas DiMarzio also said he would work with Catholic families to shore up parents’ rights against the mandate, according to the Times.
Following a tumultuous campaign, New York state legislators in June passed the same-sex “marriage” law that went into effect late last month. Weeks later, the New York Post reported that top city school officials were already planning on how to work the new marriage definition into the state’s official school curriculum.
“We have to do it. We have to think of where to do it,” said New York State Board of Regent Chancellor Merryl Tisch. “We have to think of, how we do discuss gay marriage thoughtfully, respectfully and sensitively. There has to be age-appropriateness.”
Even summer vacation has proved no impediment: city summer school teachers have already begun discussing homosexual “marriage” In their civics classes, the Post reported.
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Ping!
Pictures of hell?
Nonparents talking to kids about sex used to be a crime.
New Yorkers imagine each other to be quite Ignant.
I remember sex-ed in the 70’s. It was basically a biology class, but a little more in-depth.
It is still criminal in decent circles. Which, I suppose, do not include Mr. Bloomberg. The decent circles, part, that is. I haven’t lived in NY for decades. Is homeschooling a genuine alternative there, in NYC?
There was actually a case in NY schools where a predator homo teacher asked his class of youngsters whether they "liked" gays. Who's kidding who---this pervert was trolling for partners in his own classroom.
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The Federal Reserve Bldg Hoisted the Gay Pride Flag to Honor LGBT Month
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U.S. Department of Education to host LGBT youth summit Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Secretary of Education (official site) | June 06, 2011 (date of event) | Official press release
FR Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2011 by Salman
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give remarks at the Department’s first-ever Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) youth summit at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, D.C. The two-day summit, “Creating and Maintaining Safe and Supportive Environments for LGBT Youth,” will take place Monday-Tuesday, June 6-7. Duncan will highlight the Obama administration’s commitment to ensuring equal access to education for LGBT students as it does for all students. He also will discuss the Department’s Office for Civil Rights recently released guidance on the protection against harassment in an education setting based on gender, which includes gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender individuals.
The guidance, which was sent to schools, colleges and universities in a “Dear Colleague” letter, explains educators’ legal obligations to protect students from harassment based on racial and national origin, gender and disability.Read more at wnd.com
Pictures of Hell would do. Some video of that “Pride” fair in San Francisco might be respectful and sensitive, too.
“Sorry parents - Once we work through the mandatory chapters on homosexualism, lesbianism, autoeroticism, zoophilia, pedophilia and inter-racial oral sex there won’t be time to cover the chapter on normal man-woman sex.”
Bloomberg also wanted to mandate that doctors learn how to perform abortions.
A whole darn ‘semester’ of sex-ed? When I had it as a part of my ‘health’ class in the early-1980s, it covered about two or three days. The basics. But a whole semester? I guess it’s being extended to cover every sicko perversion that the depraved teachers can think up. This country is ruled by madness.
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“the Archdiocese of New York is calling on Catholic parents to fight.”
I hope parents DO indeed fight! How else can this be stopped.
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Just get sex ed out of the curriculum. Period.
Oops - I was just pinging this, caught it in time.
Yes, as soon as “homosexual marriage” is the law of the state, the next step is all children in public school must be force fed that perversion is not only acceptable but Worthy and Good and if they feel icky about it, THEY are Bad.
Opting out of explicit sex ed is not enough, because the opted out kids are still going to school with all the kids who’ve been indoctrinated and sexualized. Opting out has always seemed to be to be almost worthless. Of course the opted out kids are going to be told what was in the sex ed class by the other kids, see the materials, and son.
What’s the next step? Mandatory participation? Field trips?
(Eye is a bit better, guess I’m not going to go blind, thankfully!)
Sex Ed is a joke. No student learns anything from these idiotic classes.
One of the most immediate ways we can boost school performance is to eliminate all sex ed, drug & alcohol awareness and self esteem boosting programs. Every minute spent on that stuff is a complete waste of time.
Sex Ed is nothing more than a few minutes a day liberal educators can take a stab at traditional families.
[cue the English-public-school sex-ed scene from “Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life”, with John Cleese and Patricia “Magenta” Quinn doing the live in-class demo, to the great boredom of the boys]
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