Posted on 08/13/2002 12:50:01 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Sex education indoctrinates young and impressionable children into humanist ideas on sex, which directly contradict Biblical notions that sex is sacred, should be reserved for a husband and wife, and should be primarily for procreation. The Bible delves into what is appropriate and inappropriate regarding sexual relations. Biblical sexual standards provide the foundation of our Judeo-Christian social order, which undergirds western civilization. In the Bible, morality and freedom spring from an individual's ability to restrain his carnal desires. Such restraint provides a foundation for prudent judgment in all areas of life, both for the individual and for society, and thus truly uplifts and liberates.
Sex education, on the other hand, is based on humanist principles such as the upholding of earthly pleasure as the highest virtue. Humanists believe in polymorphous perversity, a term coined by Sigmund Freud, which contends that true happiness occurs only when a person feels free to have sex with anyone, anywhere, at any time, and in any combination. Humanism strips the sex act of any sacred underpinning thus reducing it to a simple physical act devoid of meaning other than physical sensation. Practical Humanism is taught today through sex education in our supposedly religious free public schools.
While many influential Humanists have shaped the thinking of today's elites who control American public education, the writings of British philosopher Bertrand Russell provide an excellent insight into the Humanist faith. Russell was an early advocate of universal sex education, open marriage, and promiscuity. He stated, "At puberty, the elements of an unsuperstitious sexual morality ought to be taught. Boys and girls should be taught that mutual inclination justifies sexual intercourse." Note that Russell, a self-described atheist and socialist, viewed Biblical teaching on sex to be superstitious while his "unsuperstitious sexual morality" would be marketed as "scientific." To Russell, the simple desire to have sex was justification enough.
Like the modern purveyors of Humanism who run our schools, Russell regarded a rejection of polymorphous perversity, and, conversely, the insistence on Biblically based sexual restraint to constitute "unnatural repression" of a child's "strongest impulses." The 1960's sexual revolution with its spin-off feminist and gay movements is based on the contention that to reject sexual libertinism and to embrace the Judeo-Christian ethos is "repressed." They contend, quite dangerously given their dominance over the culture, that a person who is so-called "repressed" is, essentially, mentally ill since repression is a psychological term for an abnormal frame of mind.
Sex education was introduced to America in 1965, following the UNESCO sponsored "International Symposium on Health, Education, Sex Education and Education for Home and Family Living" held in Hamburg, Germany. Julian Huxley, chairman of the conference, in his book UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy" wrote (pp46) "It will be one of the major tasks of the philosophy division of UNESCO to stimulatethe quest for a restatement of morality that shall be in harmony with modern knowledge and adapted to the fresh functions imposed by ethics by the world today."
Influential sex education advocate Philip Reiff spilled the beans in his book "The Triumph of the Therapeutic-Uses of Faith after Freud" where he wrote "Sex education becomes the main weapon in an ideological war against the family; its aim was to divest the parents of their moral authority. Sex education is meant to replace the moral authority of the family with that of the State, acting through its primary agent, the public school system. With that authority firmly in hand, the State has proceeded to subvert sexual morality."
Researcher Richard Nadler, in his book "Birds, Bees and ABCs: The Facts of Life in American Schools" writes "Researchers have found that instruction in sexual biology and birth control is associated with earlier ages of first intercourse. When adults teach kids to have sex the kids simply have more sex." This is obviously true and observable. Besides the erosion of faith and the moral authority of the family, sex education has contributed to the following:
- Over 50 million Americans are now infected with an incurable STD.
- Up to twelve million new cases of STDs are reported annually, 85% in ages 5 to 29.
- The number of diseases has increased from syphilis and gonorrhea, to nearly 70 classified as sexually transmitted.
- HPV (human papiloma virus) is the most rampant STD in the U.S. with over 70 different strains identified. One million new cases of HPV are diagnosed in the U.S. each year. Sexually active women under 25 are most vulnerable where infection is estimated at 30 to 40%. The number of HPV cases is estimated to be around 40 million.
- One in five American adults has genital herpes, 90% are unaware. Since the 1970s, genital herpes has increased 5 times among teenagers.
Sterility, once rare, is a consequence of many STDs and afflicts 15% of married couples. The most common cause is thought to be chlamydia, of which there are four million sufferers. 40% of sexually active persons are thought to be carriers, 70% are unaware of it.
- AIDS afflicts about a million Americans. Teenagers in the U.S. are contracting AIDS faster than other groups.
- Studies link STDs and cervical cancer.
- PID-pelvic inflammatory disease-afflicts women, is a common cause of cervical cancer, is often caused by chlamydia, affects 11% of reproductive age women, infects one million teenage girls each year, and results in 65,000 hysterectomies per year.
- Gonorrhea is up 400% among students 10-14.
- Each year 4000 students become infected with syphilis.
- AIDS has increased 62% since 1990, and the number of teens with AIDS is doubling every 14 months.
- Pre-marital sex among 15 year olds is up almost 1,000%.
- Teenage rape arrests are up 30%.
- Columnist Jann Flury noted a 300% increase in teen suicides, a greater number of teen psychiatric disorders than ever before, and dramatic increases in child molestations, rape and other sex crimes.
(The above STD statistics from Joseph Collison, "The Bitter Fruit of the Sexual Revolution", New Oxford Review, May 2000.)
I wonder if your attitude will change when you've contracted a fatal disease?
You can live however you like, just don't try to force your reprobate deathstyle on the impressionable youth of America through the indoctrination of the government schools.
It's responsible to tell them that there is no such thing as safe sex, and that contraceptives were never designed to prevent disease and are incapable of doing so.
Americans are sick and tired of Christian-bashing Atheist dweebs programming our children with their amoral perversions. They teach our kids, "It's good for you, it's fun, it's free." That is the attitude which "strips the sex act of any sacred underpinning thus reducing it to a simple physical act devoid of meaning other than physical sensation." We believe in teaching our children something other than, "if it feels good, do it."
You are the ones who control the government schools and hope to undermine the christian moral teachings we hope to instill our children with. You are the ones who have banned religion and decency from the public forum. Nobody wants to shove our religion down your throat. We just want the right to teach our children what we believe with having their morality subverted by deviant perverts.
We're sick and tired of gay bashing, lesbian bashing, judgements like 'you're all going to hell' and that sex shouldn't be fun it should MEAN something.
You have the right to practice whatever perversions you want, just leave the kids alone, okay? We don't judge you, God will, but since you don't believe in hell, why do you care what we think?
"If it feels good, it's IMMORAL!"
It just may be. We believe there are more important things in life than pursuing carnal pleasure.
We also know that abstinence-based sex education has directly contributed to a decrease in teen pregnancy. Again, there is no debate.
The question that should be asked is, why aren't public schools embracing such curricula, and Planned Parenthood endorsing it?
Sex when you're too young, too irresponsible, and too ignorant isn't any of these things. The emotional damage to children by early sex is something nobody wants to admit, in my opinion.
Sounds like my goats in the back yard when they're in rut. How special.
The doofus posting as pros_n_cons has been banned.
That's a fairly meaningless statistic. It tells nothing of distribution, types of diseases, and how the overall trend looks - are new disease cases rising, or decreasing? The stats I've seen suggest that many diseases are on the decline.
One in five American adults has genital herpes, 90% are unaware.
What kinda stat is that? Really that means that only 2% of all adults are diagnosed with herpes, and there's *maybe* another 18% of adults have it.
I can't stand it when people spin statistics to fit their agenda (here, that sex-ed is Evil). Sex ed in every setting I've ever encountered it in is clinical to the point of being boring.
Gonorrhea is up 400% among students 10-14.
Um. Stats I see from CDC say the overall rate is declining overall, and has been for over 20 years. The rate for people 15-19 has been declining since 1990.
The highest rates of infection are in the South, in a belt stretching from Louisiana through to North Carolina. Peculiar.
Regards,
Snidely
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