Comment on Government Plans to Teach Sex Education to Kids

So, something’s got me going.  It’s this.  Let me deal with this idiocy line by line (original post quoted in orange):

I  don’t think there are any other words that could describe those prunes in government who want to make ’sex education’ compulsary for children as young as five.

Prunes?  Why call someone a prune for wanting to teach children about sex? Surely they do need to know.  If I was a parent, I’d be doing the same thing (except for the obviously non-Christian bits).  Explain yourself man!  Is there something wrong with teaching children about sex?  I’ve read and listened ALOT – believe me - about how the government is going to do this, being naturally contemptuous of those in power in all walks of life who are almost without fail liars and thieves and completely unsuitable and worthy of no respect.  It appears to me that they will be doing age-appropriate teaching, which seems totally fine. 

In my opinion, it’s the parents’ job to do the following (perhaps fathers with sons and mothers with daughters?):

• Telling kids what various parts of the body are called is a good start, as they DO ask, from an early age. Penis, vagina, breasts… it’s not so hard.  Anything is surely better than ‘pee-pee’!
  
• Once they get to just before puberty, aged 8 or 9, then it might be time to tell them a little more, say about how babies develop in the womb (or even earlier, if they ask) without mentioning intercourse itself – parents tell me it can seem a little scary to kids of this age.  What could be more natural than a mother explain to her biggest little ones how the baby is growing inside.  It’s exciting and they don’t need alot of detail at this point.
• Then, soon after, the menstrual cycle and bodily changes (as they are starting to happen at that age!). There is nothing worse than a pre-teen having to deal with bodily changes themselves and have things happen and develop in their bodies when they aren’t expecting it.  Make it all a natural part of growing up.  And, again, teach them the proper names for things.
  
• Certainly, before they get to high-school (where they will hear all sorts of weird and generally incorrect stuff from their peers) age, they need to be taught about sexual intercourse.  And, of course, they do not need to know everything, nor could they possibly understand everything.  Just the basics at this point is fine.
  
• This can be followed up with honest and age-appropriate answers to the inevitable questions and the use of books (carefully selected) or diagrams.
• As the child approaches adult-hood, the questions may continue and may become more involved, when it becomes all important the relational issues are dealt with carefully.
  

All of course must be couched in the context of marriage/relationship teaching too, from the word ‘go’.  Does this not seem reasonable?

What I do worry about though is that homosexuality and promiscuity will be covered over in schools as if normal and OK as long as ’safe sex’ is practiced.  And, I am fully aware that they will not teach it all in the right way.  Of course.  I am not naive.  I am however concerned with those who would carp at the government’s plans, without making an alternative provision for their children to get sex education at all.

Imagine teaching a 5-year old about sexuality and intercourse! How much lower can those in power sink?

I don’t think that is what is planned!  You are simply scare-mongering!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078671/Compulsory-sex-education-pupils-young-law.html

It also serves as a notice to Christian parents – get your children out of that wicked public education system before it’s too late!

Is this the solution?  The same solution employed by monks and nuns?  Remember, we are IN the world, though we are not OF it.  And, while we are here, we need to engage, not withdraw.  The Christian life is a FIGHT, not a cosy RETREAT.  Teach your child toughness and resilience and how to meet the enemy head-on, not molly-coddle them until they are 16/18, then let them loose on ‘the world’ with no skills.

Yes, I believe most government institutions are inherently non and often anti-Christian.  But, by your reasoning, we’d never take our kids to a library, hospital or workplace either.

Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Yes, this is true.  I wonder how many parents do this?  I’ve witnessed only about three families who’ve done this successfully.  I fail to see how relavant this verse is though in this situation.  I’d instead make it relevant to the parental responsibility to teach our kids about sex and relationships.  Something that does not happen in most Christian homes.

NOTE: To avoid confusion, I am attacking the idea that teaching children about sex is wrong.  I am not supporting all the government’s methods or teaching.  I’d like to spark a debate about this main point.  Of course I agree wholeheartedly that the teaching that homosexuality or promiscuity is equivalent to marriage is wrong.  It is.

However, that sparks another point.  I think our kids do need to know what these things are.  Though, I’d spare them from the gorier details.  But, kids of all ages will ask ‘what’s gay?’, when they hear it or read about it in the papers.  They need told these things too and why they are wrong, from a Biblical standpoint.

And, another thing.  I hate to see/hear Christians moking and making jokes about homosexuals, as if somehow that sin was funny.  Would you also joke about adultery or murder?  It is a sin, just like any other disobedience of God’s laws.

And, a final thing.  Homosexuals are not to be treated by us as if they are somehow sub-human.  Their lifestyle choice is wrong, to be sure, but we must love them and persuade them of God’s laws.  We must not resort to billboards and name-calling and childish insulting behaviour.  Yes, their actions and militancy is repulsive, but so is lying.  Let us not raise ourselves above them.