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By Carol Maxwell, LifeSite News

“Is sex a good or a bad thing?” I asked my stunned children recently. After the shock wore off, they were confident of the correct answer.

“Baaaad!” they piped in unison.

“You’re wrong,” I replied, satisfied that I had their attention as evidenced by their baffled expressions.

As a cradle Catholic, I was not catechized properly in the teachings of the Church. It took more than nine years of being a parent to finally yearn to understand the faith connected to our Sunday family custom. After realizing that sexual sins are normalized and celebrated in society, especially in the media, my husband and I did everything to protect our children from having their perception of sex twisted into the opposite of natural law established by God.

Exposing children to sexual themes before they’re ready robs them of their innocence, and misinformation warps their perception of normal. Having five boys, we know visual images are more powerful to them than to our girls and can lead to a desire for sexual pleasure before they are physically, mentally, spiritually, and financially ready to handle it.
 
[...]  Directly before I asked my kids if they perceived sex as a good or bad thing, I was researching a children’s movie to determine if it contained inappropriate content (which Hollywood seems to include in the most innocuous-sounding films). I heard the kids complain that it would be unfortunate if the film had “bad parts” and wasn’t suitable for the family. The negativity they exhibited toward sex struck me that I had been lax in emphasizing the beauty of the intimacy between husband and wife. That’s why I asked them that loaded question – even though four and a half of my children aren’t even sure what “sex” entails.

I corrected their negative impressions by explaining that, between spouses in a sacramental marriage, sex is beautiful and pleases God—and it’s a very good thing. I emphasized to the older children later that conjugal love has the potential to transmit life to create a family. When intercourse is disordered and not what God intended through marriage, society must face a host of consequences, such as unwanted pregnancies, neglected and fatherless children, and worst of all, the murder of unborn babies through abortion.

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By Jose C Sison, PhilStar

[...]  So let us turn our attention to the other function of Congress concerning enactment of laws which is its main task anyway. And this has something to do again with some harmful and dangerous provisions of the RH bill now being considered in both houses.

These provisions specifically refer to the proposed mandatory classroom based sex education in private and public schools where classroom teachers who may not be competent at all are tasked to teach their pupils as young as ten years old, lessons in sexuality, sexual rights, and reproductive health. While the bill also mentions lessons in values, more emphasis is given to contraceptive methods and services thus giving a clear impression that sexual behavior or activity even among minors is acceptable for as long as the risk of teenage pregnancy or early marriage are addressed.

The mandatory classroom based sex education provisions in the bill comes to mind once more because last Tuesday, I was privileged to listen to the lecture of Dr. Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D., one of the most sought after speakers and consultants of parliaments, legislatures and courts worldwide regarding a) fraudulent sex science, sex education and b) the power and effect of images and media monopoly to alter human brain, mind, memory and conduct.

Apparently, and as usual we have again copied and patterned the proposed sex education program in classrooms after the sex education programs for young Americans which Dr. Reisman was discussing. Dr. Reisman clearly and convincingly traced the origin of this human sexuality education to Alfred Kinsey, the man who instigated the sexual revolution in the US way back in 1948 with his dubious scientific research on human sexual behavior that has since been referred to as the “Kinsey Reports”.

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By QC

Imaginary conversation between myself & a friend [in italics]

At our last meeting, we agreed, that as a result of the 3 lies, pre- teens & teens were condemned to sexual identity confusion and, possibly, considerable homosexual experience in attempts to resolve that confusion, which would override any belief in the superiority of heterosexuality.

Agreed.

Today, I want to discuss what sex education should comprise.

Brave man!

Back to Schwarz.

Him again!

He said that sex-ed should be split into `sex instruction’, which means giving the mere facts of sexuality as a biological function; and `sex education’ proper, which aims at incorporating these facts into our life as a whole. Attached to meaning, they acquire values. And he also claimed that true, meaningless facts unrelated to moral values cannot exist in a normal man’s sex life.

All facts have a moral aspect. Even sexual facts?

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From Family Research Council

The Day of Purity is a Project of Liberty Counsel www.LC.org working with various supporters here in the UK. ’The Day of Purity’ on February 14th 2011 is a day when youth can make a public demonstration of their commitment to remain sexually pure, in mind and actions. Today’s culture encourages youth to become sexually active at a young age and to experiment with sexual preferences.

The Day of Purity offers those who strive for sexual purity an opportunity to stand together in opposition to a culture of moral decline. When you stand up for sexual purity you send a message to parents, churches, communities, legislators, and the media that you want a better world.

Now is the time to let your voices be heard. Be part of the “counter-culture” – – be politically incorrect. It’s time for a change. You can make a difference.

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By Charles Walford, Mailonline

Boys must be immunised against the most common sexually transmitted virus, health experts have said.

The call comes after figures revealed an alarming rise in cancer linked to oral sex in young men.

[...]  Experts say oral sex is seen by teenagers as safer than sexual intercourse as carrying no risk of pregnancy or infections.

The Department of Health requested the latest figures from Professor Hisham Mehanna, director of the Institute of Head and Neck Studies in Coventry, who has surveyed the incidence of HPV-related oropharyngeal (throat) cancer in the UK and other countries.

Professor Mehanna said: ‘We are experiencing a very significant rise in oropharyngeal cancer. It used to be rare in our practice – now it is the most common [head and neck] cancer we see. All the studies show there is a strong association with oral sex.’

He added: ‘What is striking about the cancer is that we are seeing it in younger patients. We regularly get people of 45 and sometimes in their 30s.

'Oropharyngeal cancer was stable until 1996 – then it very definitely took off. This tumour takes 20 to 30 years to develop – it is probably linked to the sexual revolution.'

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By Gillan Scott, God and Politics in the UK blog (Hat Tip: Cranmer)

By Christine Dhanagom, LifeSite News

By Emily Allen, Mailonline

A sex education video produced by the BBC for children as young as nine has been criticised as being 'like a blue movie' by an MP who said the material is 'shattering the innocence of childhood'.

The video aims to teach children aged between nine and 11 about growing up, the cycle of life, feelings, family life and friendship.

But included in the CD-ROM is an animated video of two cartoon characters making love and a computer-generated sequence showing a couple having sex, accompanied by a graphic explanation.

There is also footage of a naked man and woman, used to demonstrate the differences between the sexes, information about 'wet dreams' and masturbation, and graphic diagrams of genitalia.

Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom said: 'This material is explicit. It is shattering the innocence of childhood.'

Mrs Leadsom, who has raised the issue in Parliament, including presenting a petition after being contacted by concerned parents last year, said she was embarrassed by the film, adding: 'It was like a blue movie'.

She said: 'Parents don't feel their views are being consulted. My son was shown it four years ago. I was told it was by the BBC and I was told it was called 'Living and Growing' and you just expect if it's by the BBC it will be okay. 'I was utterly shocked by it when I saw it.'
 
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From The Christian Institute

Children will be taught to endorse the homosexual agenda despite the beliefs of their parents, the managing editor of a homosexual newspaper in Canada has said.

Writing in the online edition of Xtra Vancouver, Robin Perelle blasted parents with traditional beliefs saying “your outdated morals are no longer acceptable, and we will teach your kids the new norms”.

The managing editor commented: “Just as the black civil rights movement changed the rules of what is and isn’t acceptable for racism, the gay rights movement is shifting norms in Canada.”

Last year it emerged that Stonewall, a homosexual pressure group in Britain, had been sending controversial teacher training packs to some primary schools.

The pack included a DVD on which one head teacher said that pupils should be taught to be resilient to the values of their parents and grandparents.

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From British Church Newspaper

Increasing concern about the sexualisation of young children, by introducing sex into the primary school curriculum in the UK, has led to public protest meetings.

One mother taking her son out of his Northampton primary school stated: “I’ve had to do it because the sex education programme is I believe deliberately designed to legalise paedophilia. Most of this shocking agenda which affects our children here in the UK stems from Brussels. Many good hearted, concerned people are convinced that there is a covert agenda working its way out to legalise paedophilia”.

CONFERENCE SEEKS TO REBRAND PAEDOPHILES

Support for her anxieties was provided by an unwholesome academic conference held in the US in August, when sympathetic academics discussed with known paedophiles how to soften the ‘unhelpful image’ of paedophiles – by rebranding them as people needing help rather than punishment.

The conference, which recommended that the term paedophile be replaced by the phrase “minor-attracted’, was organised by ‘b4uact’, a paedophile group which openly campaigns for the legalisation of paedophilia, and claims that children are capable of ‘consensual sexual relations with adults’.

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From Baptist Press

Funding for abstinence education has returned to the federal budget in the spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.

The $1 trillion budget, which staves off another potential government shutdown, allocates $5 million for abstinence-based Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) programs that were slashed by the Obama administration beginning in 2009.

Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, told the Focus on the Family-affiliate CitizenLink that the restoration of funding is a "step in the right direction."

Abstinence-only education has been under fire by critics who argue that it is ineffective and leaves teens at greater risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases if they engage in sex. Advocates for abstinence education, meanwhile, point to new evidence suggesting their programs are having a positive impact.

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By Amanda Platell, Mailonline

We’ve come to expect worrying statistics about the sexualisation of British children, but the news that a quarter of girls today lose their virginity below the age of consent still came as a shock.

Children as young as 14 — who should be playing or gossiping with friends in comparative innocence as they come to terms with adolescence — are instead having casual sex.

More than a quarter of 16 to 24-year olds confess they were 15 or under when they first had sex. But then we live in a world in which kids are putting condoms on bananas as part of their sex education at school before they’ve even learnt how to spell the word banana.

A world where those in authority refuse to pass judgment on underage sex — mealy-mouthed Public Health Minister Anne Milton will only say:

‘Young people should think carefully before having sex. Consider seriously if it’s right for you, what contraception to use and the best way to protect yourself from sexually transmitted infections.’

She makes no mention of the disastrous emotional effects of having sex too young, utters not a word about love or respect, nor about the issues when a girl of 14 or 15 is so emotionally immature she is unable to understand the consequences of growing up too fast and trying to be a woman in a child’s body. We can claim that it’s a problem of broken society, that the girls who have sex so young are invariably the tragic offspring of feckless parents who know no better.

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By QC

From The Christian Institute

A new poll has found that two thirds of Britons think parents or guardians should be the main people responsible for teaching children about sex.

The news comes after plans to force primary schools to teach sex education failed in the House of Lords.

Some Peers have previously pushed for such a move but the Government upheld the present law, which keeps decision-making about sex education in the hands of head teachers and school governors.

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By John Smeaton,SPUC

Lynette Burrows(pictured), an author on children’s rights, family campaigner and mother of six children said in October this year on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live show:

“I think parents have the absolute right to protect their children from this sort of education which is so unhelpfully obsessed with destroying childhood innocence, in a way that's reminiscent of paedophilia. To me, anyone who wants to talk dirty to little children is a danger to them."

Last week Mrs Burrows spoke at SPUC's Safe at School "Sex education as sexual sabotage" meeting in Westminster, after which our 47,000 strong petition against explicit sex DVDs in primary schools was presented to Michael Gove and the Department for Education by parents joined by Jonathan Evans, MP for Cardiff North, and Andrea Leadsom, MP for South Northamptonshire.

I am delighted that Mrs Burrows has allowed me to publish her talk, in full, on this blog.

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by Brian Brown, NOM

An anti-bullying curriculum in the Vancouver public schools points kids to a website featuring explicit videos of gay sex. When school board Trustee Ken Denike learned of it, he suggested periodic reviews of all online resources…and was roundly denounced by community leaders as a homophobe!

By QC

Part 1 here and Part 2 here

Talk given by family campaigner Lynette Burrows for SPUC on 1st December 2011 at Westminster Library

Mr. Chairman, Sir, Ladies & Gentlemen.

First of all, I want to say what a pleasure and a privilege it is to speak on the same platform as Dr. (Judith) Reisman; a person that I have long admired – and quoted from, on innumerable occasions. Her courage in saying what she has – and being damned by the pundits for saying it, is a useful lesson to us all, in how any individual speaking the truth these days, and sticking to their guns, can expect to be treated. There is nobody more bigoted and hostile than a liberal whose method or opinion is questioned, and one has to be prepared to stand up to all the misrepresentation and insults they throw.

The British, though not a cowardly people, are very easy to embarrass and we often flinch from confrontation rather than ‘speaking the truth and shaming the devil’ as the nuns who taught me used to say. I was invited to be on the panel to assess the Sex Education forum hosted by ITV in 2008 where, I think, the current crop of horribly unsuitable films were previewed to a warmly appreciative audience of teachers, educationalists, social workers etc, etc. They were graphic and ugly and the only thing that saved them being the sort of material shown by fundamentalist religious groups depicting sex as the work of the devil, was the relentlessly jokey tone and the way deeply shocking images were shown as being perfectly normal and commonplace. This is quite a marketing device actually – to normalize the circumstances surrounding what you want to sell, however counter-cultural and offensive they are to what are essentially community and family values.

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By John Smeaton, SPUC

Members of Parliament joined parents and experts today at Westminster to support a campaign against pornographic sex education programmes in schools.

SPUC's Safe at School organised a packed meeting entitled “Sex education as sexual sabotage”, co-hosted by the Working Party on the Sexualisation of Children under the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP for North-East Somerset, said that the meeting was “terrifically important. SPUC’s work is of overwhelming importance for our society.” He said that he has met with local parents worried about school-based sex education. Mr Rees-Mogg thanked everyone at the meeting for helping him to inform himself about the issue, which he is taking up with his local authority.

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