New book challenges current sex education policy in schools
CEN December 2
The teaching of the mechanics of sex without teaching about human relationships is not working. “What are they teaching the children?” launched in Westminster on November 24 at a meeting chaired by Baroness Cox seeks to explain why.
Philip Quenby argued that the Christian world view gives an educational heritage which is distinctive and worth fighting for. Since every human in the image of God, education is to develop an individual rather than be solely for the benefit or needs of the state. That Jesus is the truth carries with it the suggestion that education should serve and promote objective truth rather than be the means by which the state promotes what is true and false. That God sets the standards brings the idea we look outside ourselves for wisdom and understanding. Eastern religions and philosophies suggest that truth is to be found within. Since human beings are mind, spirit and also body, we look for practical betterment of our physical lives. All fields of learning are legitimate since God made everything. So there is no higher and lower learning. Finally the profligate beauty of creation suggests things can have value even if of no practical use.
Edmund Adamus contended that everything hinges on the intentionality and conscious decision of parents to be educators of their children. This natural right can be illumined by faith but is under constant threat by interconnected pressure groups who know the power of parents to form the hearts minds and consciences of young people. They therefore undermine the moral authority of parents over their children which is needed to correct immoral and unnecessary information. Parents by being parents exhibit and influence their children in love which children naturally absorb.
The duty of all public authorities is to enhance, enrich and embellish this natural gift that parent has to love their child like no other. Against the vociferous anti-parent rhetoric we need to reclaim the natural right of parents to form, educate and protect their children in collaboration with other concerned adults.
He urged parents to be politically active to defend their rights. “Until parents step up and claim what is rightfully theirs, the families will the first victims of the things to which they have shown indifference.”
Brian Hadley argued that the programme called Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools interferes with the normal develop of gender in children. By promoting same-sex marriage and requiring many teachers to teach something contrary to their beliefs, it also contravened government policy.
Anthony Busk claimed that addressing bullying in school had become a Trojan Horse for introducing the LGBT agenda since it claimed that any form of restriction on gay people expressing their true nature was bullying. This included teachers who might elevate traditional family values.
In the collection of essays Robert Harris argues for the importance of Christian assemblies, Edmund Matyjaszek traces the Christian roots of human rights and Alistair Noble explores the response of the establishment to the arguments for intelligent design.
What are the teaching the children? Is edited by Lynda Rose and published by Voice for Justice UK and Wilberforce Publications. 352 pp £10
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