Posted on 05/09/2002 11:52:57 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
After having covered 45 United Nations' and U.N.-related meetings where I have "heard it all," there are times when I think I have a thick skin – that is, until I hear the United Nations talk about caring for the children of the world.
The fact that the U.N. wants to protect all children under 18 should be of concern to all parents. You see when I first sat in on some of the deliberations being held at various U.N. conferences and would read the documents which said that the U.N. was going to do this or that, I automatically thought it was for the Third World only. It took a number of meetings for me to realize that the U.S. is not exempt, but included in all U.N. outcomes for action. The teachings and persuasions of the U.N. in the areas of values and beliefs – whether they are political or sexual – permeate our society and country.
Any old excuse will do for the U.N. to interfere in the upbringing of the youth. Hiding behind the current rhetoric of "health care and education," the values of the United Nations have been taught to our children since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's founding in 1945, when it was decided that their agenda for peace would be to change the minds of men.
In the story of UNESCO, titled "UNESCO – An Ideal In Action" by Frederico Mayor, the secretary-general writes, "Constructing the defenses of peace in the minds of men means working at the source among children, adults and various groups of all persuasions, acting to counter the violence and wars that from time immemorial have punctuated the course of history and left their mark upon minds and upon the subconscious."
Our children have no understanding of the freedoms that our forefathers fought and died for. All you have to do is watch the future of America get off the school bus to see that they have very little in their mind to keep them thinking on the "higher things" of life. They have no dreams or aspirations to become because they have no ideals from history. They have long forgotten – or may not even know – who Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Graham Bell or Andrew Jackson are. The vision they are being given is based on "global citizenship" because the world is one and we must protect the planet.
In Cairo, at the 1994 U.N. Conference on Population and Development, the U.N. put into practice their new environmental philosophy of the world in a concept called "sustainable development," which says, in essence, there are too many people in the world and that the earth's resources will have to be controlled and managed by the U.N. so that they are not depleted.
As a community activist before I became a reporter, I was concerned about what our children were being taught in sex education and family-planning classes and why they were being given condoms instead of being taught to wait until marriage for sex. I was also concerned about the abortion rate among teenage girls. I never realized until I went to Cairo that all of these teachings originated at the international level with the United Nations as part of their agenda to reduce the world's population.
In Cairo, I remember sitting in on a workshop conducted by SIECUS – the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States – where a young man read from a very long document about how children should be able to have sex with adults. In that room were many Egyptian youth as well as people from all walks of life and countries. I decided to ask him how he liked his sex. Does he prefer masturbation or the use of erotic movies? The room was shocked. How could I ask such a personal question? I replied that our children were being taught these things in the health-education classes in school, so why not?
Afterward, a large group of Egyptian youth gathered around me and asked why I was mad at him. I replied that the American people had no idea this meeting was being held and that they did not agree with what was being said at these meetings. They were shocked. You see, the world has followed after the lead of the United States in agreeing to the morally outrageous concepts put forth at U.N. meetings.
In Cairo, abortion as a right was hotly debated. While the Vatican was able to hold up the "progress" of the conference, they agreed to change the order of a few words and signed on to the supporting document. They should have walked away and called for a boycott. After all, the Vatican is the Vatican.
You see, when you want to reduce the population of the world, you put women to work so they don't procreate. You create enough questions in the minds of pre- and post-puberty youth that they just might be homosexual because they don't procreate. And you teach the retarded how to masturbate – such as they did in Montgomery County, Md., eight years ago.
Now, the abortion clinics have formed public-private partnerships with healthcare providers and with government agencies to expand their range of services to our youth. Of course, healthcare for children would allow them to take advantage of these opportunities on their own.
I wonder how far off we are before the youth are given the status of adults. You see, if the U.N. is going to become the surrogate parent to all the world's youth, then who do they really belong to? Our delegation in New York should not be sitting at the table, they should be walking away from it and shelving the global institution whose document they are trying to make palatable!
In Cairo, I remember sitting in on a workshop conducted by SIECUS – the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States – where a young man read from a very long document about how children should be able to have sex with adults. In that room were many Egyptian youth as well as people from all walks of life and countries. I decided to ask him how he liked his sex. Does he prefer masturbation or the use of erotic movies? The room was shocked. How could I ask such a personal question? I replied that our children were being taught these things in the health-education classes in school, so why not?Afterward, a large group of Egyptian youth gathered around me and asked why I was mad at him. I replied that the American people had no idea this meeting was being held and that they did not agree with what was being said at these meetings. They were shocked. You see, the world has followed after the lead of the United States in agreeing to the morally outrageous concepts put forth at U.N. meetings.
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But, laughable as they may be, they are very dangerous.
I don't know for sure, but there certainly has been at least some secular influence and I've heard plenty of anecdotes where Catholic schools have totally embraced modern "sex ed."
The problem isn't in the doctrine. Papal encyclicals have consistently endorsed parents as a child's primary educators and have consistently enjoined society to protect the modesty of children.
34. The wisdom of the Church in this matter is expressed with precision and clearness in the Codex of Canon Law, can. 1113: "Parents are under a grave obligation to see to the religious and moral education of their children, as well as to their physical and civic training, as far as they can, and moreover to provide for their temporal well-being."[23] ...60. Hence every form of pedagogic naturalism which in any way excludes or weakens supernatural Christian formation in the teaching of youth, is false. Every method of education founded, wholly or in part, on the denial or forgetfulness of original sin and of grace, and relying on the sole powers of human nature, is unsound. Such, generally speaking, are those modern systems bearing various names which appeal to a pretended self-government and unrestrained freedom on the part of the child, and which diminish or even suppress the teacher's authority and action, attributing to the child an exclusive primacy of initiative, and an activity independent of any higher law, natural or divine, in the work of his education...
90. More than ever nowadays an extended and careful vigilance is necessary, inasmuch as the dangers of moral and religious shipwreck are greater for inexperienced youth. Especially is this true of impious and immoral books, often diabolically circulated at low prices; of the cinema, which multiplies every kind of exhibition; and now also of the radio, which facilitates every kind of communications. These most powerful means of publicity, which can be of great utility for instruction and education when directed by sound principles, are only too often used as an incentive to evil passions and greed for gain. St. Augustine deplored the passion for the shows of the circus which possessed even some Christians of his time, and he dramatically narrates the infatuation for them, fortunately only temporary, of his disciple and friend Alipius.[60] How often today must parents and educators bewail the corruption of youth brought about by the modern theater and the vile book!
The problem is in designing a curriculum and purchasing books. That is usually left to private industry, the Director of Religious education, parents, etc. The bishop has the final say. There is plenty of room for corruption to enter the process.
That's what I was thinking, that the text books and curriculum, perhaps through books on the environment etc., could be influencing young minds; Bishops being unaware. I will read now.
(My brother took my nephew out of public school in the 1st grade and enrolled him in Catholic school, hence my interest.)
I wonder how far off we are before the youth are given the status of adults. You see, if the U.N. is going to become the surrogate parent to all the world's youth, then who do they really belong to? Our delegation in New York should not be sitting at the table, they should be walking away from it and shelving the global institution whose document they are trying to make palatable!
I totally agree.
The best thing to do is to ask around. If the pastor's orthodox then you're probably pretty safe. You should ask about the Director of Religious Education and the principal too.
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