The Massachusetts Family Institute has sent out an alert email warning that the Massachusetts Legislature is considering a bill that would mandate explicit sex education for all children in public schools. This is House Bill 1641. The basis for the bill can be found in the 1999 Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework. Tellingly, this has the support of Planned Parenthood. So what would the bill do? Quoting from the email, it would:
- Make lessons on sexuality, abortion and birth control part of the core public school curriculum. Moreover, children as young as 5 years would have to “Identify the physical changes as related to the reproductive system during puberty,” and “Define sexual orientation using terminology such as heterosexual, gay and lesbian.”
- Make this curriculum a mandatory requirement for children in grades kindergarten through 12. It would be required for graduation.
- Usurp the role of parents as primary educators of their children. May override parents right to opt their child out of offensive sex education programs.
- Replace traditional religious and moral values, that (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) parents might wish to impart to their children with “political correctness.”
What to do? You’re encouraged to contact your representative. And when he ignores you, vote for his opponent in November.
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You can also attend the hearing on this ‘bill’ on January 31st at 1:00 pm at the State House, room B-1.
Come on down! The more, the merrier…
Have I ever discussed the many reasons we began homeschooling our children three years ago….
The list keep getting longer!
They can only usurp the authority you give them.
JMJ
“They can only usurp the authority you give them.” – Brilliant!
BTW, I think it’s Room B2.
And why are you still living in Massachusetts again?
Solution set: pull you kids out of public schhol.
Roman Catholics have traditionally educated their own.
“Usurp the role of parents as primary educators of their children. May override parents right to opt their child out of offensive sex education programs.”
Then again, maybe the the public schools are just taking the lead from the archdiocese of Boston with their “Talking About Touching” program.
There is not even refuge inside the Church in this God forsaken State.
And blue states continue their march towards Communism. From Rerum Novarum, 13:
“We say, “at least equal rights”; for, inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well in idea as in fact, to the gathering of men into a community, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior to those of the community, and founded more immediately in nature. If the citizens, if the families on entering into association and fellowship, were to experience hindrance in a commonwealth instead of help, and were to find their rights attacked instead of being upheld, society would rightly be an object of detestation rather than of desire.”
Take rights away from families, and put them in the hands of the state. It takes a village (State), of course.