Tag Archives: Topic: Sex Indoctrination

The Telegraph reports: Instead of concentrating on the Bible and the holy books and tenets of other major religions, a significant part of the course is tied to citizenship and personal, social and health education. Academics claim, however, that the …

LifeSiteNews: “The Spanish Supreme Court has been deadlocked for two days over whether or not to permit parents to remove their children from a government civics program that indoctrinates students with homosexual ideology . . .”

ParentalRights.org Blog: “Sweden’s government places so much pressure on families to conform with its dictates that Ruby Harrold-Claesson, an international human rights lawyer and a citizen of Sweden, has gone so far as to call their actions a ‘parental inquisition.’”

AP: “With the exit of the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an ineffective, sometimes harmful program . . . “

Two Florida lawmakers have introduced bills meant to discourage teachers from touting the benefits of sex within a monogamous, heterosexual marriage . . .

Citizen Link reports: . . . according to government-supported research at the Heritage Foundation, one thing is clear: Teens who abstain from sex share some characteristics. The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health identified eight personality and behavioral traits that …

NewsNet5.com reports: Sexually spread diseases – for years on the decline – are on the rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government health officials said Tuesday. The increase in chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infection that can lead to …

Baptist Press reports: . . . the study found that teenagers who took a pledge were just as likely to have premarital sex as those who did not take a pledge; and those who took pledges were less likely to …

Washington Post: “More than half of teens who use the social networking site MySpace have posted information about sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence, new research shows . . . Factors associated with a decreased risk of posting risky behaviors …

William McGurn writes on the Wall Street Journal: The chain reaction was something out of central casting. A medical journal starts it off by announcing a study comparing teens who take a pledge of virginity until marriage with those who …

The Daily Mail reports: Sexual health clinics could soon be open in every secondary school and college. All pupils would have easy access to emergency contraception and pregnancy testing without their parents being told. Around a third of secondary schools …

Kathryn Jean Lopez writes on Townhall: The National Abstinence Education Association disputed the whole premise of the study, using this obvious tack. Its executive director, Valerie Huber, remarked to me in an e-mail interview: “The author inaccurately equates the holistic …

The Washington Post: . . . “Taking a pledge doesn’t seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior,” said Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose report appears in the January …

Made by the Family Planning Association, Why Abortion? shows a range of scenarios in which actresses justify abortion on the grounds that they cannot afford to have a child or that it could jeopardize their relationship with parents or boyfriends.

Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) says youngsters in California and other states are being taught to view the homosexual lifestyle as acceptable. Dacus explains the strategy of activists.

The ACLU Blog carries this post that indicates: Sexuality Research & Social Policy’s special issue features articles written by some of the most prominent experts in the fields of adolescent sexuality, public health, human rights, and education . . . …

In a simultaneous announcement, the Catholic Education Service makes it clear, not only that it will collaborate with the government’s plans, but that it hopes that parents will not choose to opt out by withdrawing their children from sex education.

The BBC reports: “Lessons about personal, social and health matters including sex and relationships will be compulsory in all England’s schools from ages five to 16.”

The Christian Institute carries this report that begins: “News that the Scout Association is jumping on the sex education bandwagon has been slammed by a columnist writing in the Times. Ross Clark asks: “Can there be a youth left in Britain …

The Houston Chronicle reports: “Planned Parenthood of Alaska drafted the original petition and has already collected 1,100 names since late August, including 300 people under 18, said chief executive Clover Simon.”

Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador has called on the presidents of Latin America to include the issue of human values when they hold a discussion on a project about the rights of young people in late October.

The Heritage Foundation offers backgrounder #2194 by Christine Kim.  It reports: Many policymakers, health professionals, and “safe sex” advocates respond to these troubling sta­tistics by demanding more comprehensive sex edu­cation and broader access to contraceptives for minors. They assume that …

The AP reports: “Schools in the Massachusetts city where girls reportedly made a “pregnancy pact” will allow contraceptives to be distributed – with parental consent. Gloucester (GLAW’-ster) school board Chairman Greg Verga says the vote Wednesday night was unanimous. . …

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The U.S. Senate passed a bill Saturday that extends funding for Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) through September 2009, reports citizenlink.com.”

Dallas schools will be safer for gay students, teachers and parents, says a new agreement between the Dallas Independent School District and Lambda Legal.

The fact is, the bill’s intention was to mandate that issues like contraception and the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases be included in sex-education classes for children before the sixth grade, and as early as kindergarten.

The Daily Mail reports:  Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project.  Heads of the project have set themselves a goal of ‘creating primary classrooms …

The American Constitution Society has issued a guide titled: Lesson One: Your Gender is Your Destiny — The Constitutionality of Teaching Sex Stereotypes in Abstinence-Only Programs.“

“Explicit means explicit,” she said. “No, I’m pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues. So I am not anti-contraception. But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids.

ABC has this video on the Sex Education debate involving a debate between David Greenburg, the CEO of the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Portland Oregon, and Marie Hahnenberg of the American Life League. The video runs just under 6 minutes.  …

But, increasingly, they are becoming institutions where liberal and even radical social agendas are implemented, designed to undermine the truths that parents teach their children at home and church.

The news that Sarah Palin’s unwed teenage daughter is pregnant highlights a surprising reality in today’s America: The ultra-conservative morality many associate with the red states is out of step with the reality of 21st century America. Today’s America rewards women who avoid teen pregnancy, study longer and marry later.

LifeSiteNews.com has this report: Commentary by Dr. Philip Ney OTTAWA, September 4, 2008 (LifeSitenews.com) – I am a retired professor of psychiatry, having taught in 5 universities in different parts of Canada, Hong Kong and New Zealand. I have also …

“Abstinence education is a failure.” Variations of that message are beginning to pop up in the media once again in light of recent events calling into question the effectiveness of these programs. There’s just one significant problem: It’s not true.

No sooner was Bristol Palin’s pregnancy disclosed than many in the liberal commentariat began to beat abstinence education (which Sarah Palin favors) about the head and shoulders.

Liberty Counsel has issued this press release that begins: Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to spread its harmful propaganda. A new Planned Parenthood …

Debates over instruction about human sexuality in public schools are typically controversial since they pit two conflicting sets of interests against one another.

With this in mind, Representative Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado) introduced the “Schoolchildren’s Health Protection Act” (H.R. 6453) this session with the intent of restoring the rights of parents to have oversight in the matter of their children’s health.

After nine years, the Source Teen Theatre on Busch Boulevard has closed its doors. The theater was a Planned Parenthood-sponsored program in which teens wrote and performed morality plays on teen issues.

The Tennessean reports: Like many parents, Mary Donaldson dreaded having “the talk” with her teenage daughter, Brooke. That’s why Donaldson turned to the True Love Waits program at Tulip Grove Baptist Church in Old Hickory. The program promotes abstinence before …

NBC first dropped the ball in a discussion of abstinence. One of the biggest criticisms of the The Baby Borrowers was that it sent a mixed message. On one hand, it claimed to show teens how difficult parenting is, but on the other hand it essentially condoned premarital sex by allowing the unsupervised teen couples to share beds during the series.

For Planned Parenthood and the anything-goes ethos it represents, young people are always going to have sex.

We are seeing a dramatic shift in education from “effective” education, meaning concrete academics, to “affective” education, meaning the teaching of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors.

CNSNews reports: “A new Web site launched by the Columbia/Willamette (Ore.) Planned Parenthood affiliate uses a series of video vignettes designed to ‘teach’ teens about avoiding sexually transmitted diseases, but the videos include two boys purportedly engaging in oral sex, …

The Christian Institute reports: “Eleven-year-old school children should be forced to undergo sex education regardless of their parents’ wishes, a Government-funded report says.”

Radio Iowa reports: Iowa Governor Chet Culver has agreed to reject thousands of dollars in federal funding for abstinence only education programs . . . . ” Related: Let My People Go, AIDS Profiteers

Jennifer Roback Morse has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: The advocates of contraception have finally admitted in public what some of us have known for a while: The Pill doesn’t work very well . . . It turns out …

Kristen Fyfe has this article on the Culture and Media Institute site.  She writes: “What the Associated Press fails to report is that Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are working together to persuade states across the country to reject federal …

Carol Platt Liebau has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: There was something sweetly naïve about the shock elicited by news out of Gloucester, Massachusetts that a group of 17 girls, no older than 16, may have had a pact …

LifeNews.com reports: “A Senate appropriations subcommittee voted Tuesday to cut abstinence education funding by 25 percent, but President Bush may veto the bill that includes the change.’

The Christian Institute reports: Speculation is growing that the Government’s answer to record abortion numbers among schoolgirls is to start sex education with five-year-olds and scrap the parental opt-out. Yesterday’s figures showed a 21 per cent leap in abortions for …

The goal is to get enough states to refuse the federal abstinence-education funding to the point where the ACLU and Planned Parenthood can convince Congress to eliminate such funding entirely . . .

The Daily Mail reports: Sexual health clinics are to be opened in secondary schools to hand out contraception and help arrange abortions. Pupils as young as 11 will be able to drop in for free condoms, contraceptive pills, morning-after pills, …

Devon Williams reports on Citizen Links: “The National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) has launched a national campaign to educate parents about the harmful information their children are often exposed to in so-called “comprehensive” sex-education classes at school.”

LifeNews.com reports: “Backers of abstinence education are preparing a new campaign to counteract the media bias and attacks from abortion proponents on Capitol Hill. They’re hoping to organize a national march and rally featuring one million parents to support abstinence …

KSL.com reports: Parents say sex education went too far inside the classroom full of 8th-graders at Fort Herriman Middle School. Suzanne Johnson told us, “She explained how the teacher talked about masturbation. Girl masturbation, boys, the wrong ways … the …

Western Cape teacher unions have no plans to hand out condoms to pupils. Instead, they say, they are encouraging teachers to advocate abstinence.

Fred Schartz has this commentary on National Review.  He argues that instilling a sense shame works in alcohol prevention efforts for minors. So, why should we believe Planned Parenthood’s claim that it won’t work with sex education.

Christians and proponents of federal abstinence programs cried foul over what they claimed was a biased attempt to write off federal abstinence until marriage programs as ineffective and damaging to the health of youth.

There is a mountain of media out there promoting a phony philosophy about the joys of casual, risky sexual experimentation; one need look no further than the junk advice featured in magazines like Cosmopolitan to see just how pernicious it is.

Both the LA Times and Reuters reported that abstinence-only education has received “$1.3 billion” in federal funds since the late 1990s, but they failed to put the number in context.

Continued federal funding of abstinence-only sex education in public schools was debated before a House committee Wednesday amid questions about whether the government should sponsor a program that many experts say doesn’t work.

. . . Opponents of abstinence education contend that these programs fail to influence teen sexual behav­ior. At this stage, the available evidence supports neither this assessment nor the wholesale dismissal of authentic abstinence education programs . . .

“Two new studies presented at the National Press Club provide encouraging findings about abstinence education.”

Leading Congressional abortion advocates plan a hearing next week on abstinence education and the forum has the makings of a one-sided attack.

The effect of the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Fields v. Palmdale was a virtual relinquishment of a parent’s ability to have a voice in what his or her child would be exposed to during the course of the school day, regardless of whether the information was a part of the curriculum.

The BottomLineUpFront blog by Amy Proctor carries the video (from June 2007) and  highlights some points made in the speech. Obama makes several comment strongly in support of abortion and reaffirms his votes against Justices Roberts and  Alito.  He also …

The article concludes that schools that implement single-sex education must do so for reasons other than promoting an essentialized notion of masculinity and that the law must be vigilant in ensuring that schools’ implementation not further reify dominant conceptions of what it means to be a boy.

In our recently released paper, we explore the effect of religion on the politics and jurisprudence of abstinence education in the context of the contemporary culture war between red and blue state values.

Abstinence clubs are common at high schools but few college campuses have them. That may be changing.

Several dozen members of Congress, all abortion advocates, have signed a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey asking him to cut all funds for abstinence education.

A stricter statutory opt-out provision should be enacted by state legislatures that only allows parents to excuse their child from sex education after a parent attends a 90-minute STD prevention course and receives the instructional material used in the school’s sex education curriculum.

A Townhall article by Robert Knight of the Culture and Media Institute: Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that one in four American teen girls and half of all black teen girls—half!—have at least one sexually …

Religious Freedom Unconstitutional Entanglements: The Religious Right, The Federal Government, and Abstinence Education in the Schools Naomi Rivkind Shatz, 19 Yale J.L. & Feminism 495 (2008) The continuing debate over sex education is currently being played out in school districts, …

At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.