Comments on: “Now, I’m really into sex without intercourse. It’s hot.”

By: shelray

shelray — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:00:00 +0000

Anon,
I agree, it is irresponsible to ignore the issues facing our teens. I also agree that our children need to be educated on sex. The sex education controversy is over (1)What should be taught (2) by who (3) at what age. One of the problems is that many people who are providing sex education have no idea what sex is. It’s like the blind leading the blind. If you are referrring to educating children on contraception, masturbation, abortion, homosexuality, etc..as sex education, than how is that any different than things you can learn from your television and friends. If the foundation of sex is not understood as a spiritual and sacred act that is reserved for spouses(man & woman)who become one flesh, than sex is seen as nothing more than an act of passion and lust. The womb is holy, and should not be used as a receptacle of a man’s lust, if we recognize sex for what it really is, than I don’t think we would be having the current prevelence of sexual obession. Sex education not birth control options, it should be to learn what the true act of sex really is and why it must be exaulted above a purley biological act. The sex education I am concerned with is the type that looks at the human person an object of pleasure.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:31:00 +0000

Im not sure if you really know whats going on in Catholic schools. Having gone through a private Cathloic girls school in Australia myself, I can honestly tell you that there is not enough sex education going on. Whether you like it or not kids are having sex at an extremely early age. I did’t recieve any sex ed unitl my senior year and by that stage there were 5 abortions that I knew of and one carried to term pregnancy, one rape that was reported and a molestation by a family member on one of my friends. Most this occured by year 10.(14yrs) The fact of the matter is that kids are participating in sexual acts as young as 12 in schools. The school i attended was a very exclusiive girls school,in the Western Suburbs of Brisbane, with nuns running the Religious Ed program. I finished in 1996 with my sister just finishing last year in the same school. Two of her friends have kids. Even though the church and or school does not agree with the use of sex ed, fact is that kids are then educationing themselves on the week ends at parties with other private catholic school boys and girls.. It happens at all schools.Being a pre service teacher in the Cathloic system there is certainly a lot more going on since I went to school and I thought that was bad enough.. The head in the sand approach just doesnt seem to be working surprisingly enough. Ignorance is bliss as they say and the powers that be seem blissfully happy.. or is that enlightend. Hard to say in this light..

By: shelray

shelray — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:16:00 +0000

Eric,
It goes to show how much I knew of what was going on in our Catholic schools. I don’t think it has ever been a mystery that children are not adults, and I am quite curious why there is such a push to sexualize children?

By: islandcatholic

islandcatholic — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:43:00 +0000

Shelray,
Good topic for discussion. I thought you might be interested in what one of our bolder Canadian Bishops said about ten years ago with respect to one of our sex education series in Catholic schools. Most likely it applies to US Catholic schools as well. Hope it helps to further enlighten and energize fellow Catholics with the truth.

“This series is gravely flawed because it deviates from the Church’s teaching on family life education. This teaching is set forth in the encyclical of Pope Pius XI On the Christian Education of Youth of Dec. 31, 1929, the Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris consortio (The Christian Family in the Modern World) Nov. 22, 1981, Educational Guidelines in Human Love of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, Nov. 1, 1983 and most recently The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Dec. 8, 1995.

“The Fully Alive program ignores the latency period of our children and therefore can contribute to the loss of innocence. It gives group instruction in intimate sexual matters although the Church has specifically forbidden this. It is woefully deficient in its treatment of moral principles. It often ignores the Church’s teaching on sin and grace and modesty. It does not distinguish between the different degrees of maturity in the same class as the Church tells us teachers must do. It violates the principle of imparting information on sexual matters only at the point of development when this is needed. The Fully Alive program is not a program for formation in Christian virtue but a program of imparting sexual knowledge to children.

“A summary of the matters discussed at the Grade 7 level makes clear how this sex education course descends to the level of child abuse. Terms explained include: cervical mucus, acrosome, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, erection, ejaculation, nocturnal emissions, homosexuality, masturbation, rape, and sexual molestation. In Grade 8 education in methods of contraception, even illicit and abortifacient ones, is given. This education in evil can only promote sexual experimentation and sins.

“My recommendation asks that the Fully Alive program be replaced in our schools: all that is necessary can be taught in the context of the Sixth and Ninth Commandments with formation and teaching in the virtues of chastity and modesty and in accordance with the directives of The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, through the solid Faith and Life religion series.

“The proper authority in the area of family life education should be with the parents. For parents, the best guidelines for education within the family are The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality and The Catechism of the Catholic Church. “Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8).”

By: Clayton

Clayton — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:39:00 +0000

It sounds like the VIRTUS program takes its cue from the agenda of Kinsey. For more information on sex education in the Catholic schools, listen to my podcast on the subject.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:01:00 +0000

Wow, unbelievable…. how satan has infected and corrupted people’s thoughts and actions to the point that they think that targeting CHILDREN, the most innocent, in this matter is okay. We must pray for these individuals and most of all for the children who are growing up in this world.