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The poisoned roots of Kinseyan 'sex education' and its implications for the RH bill

From CBCP for Life:

Comprehensive sex ed based on debunked studies by ‘psychopath’ scientist – media expert

MANILA, Jan. 31, 2012–The concept of comprehensive sex education, which has been carried out in many Western countries and is being proposed as part of the reproductive health (RH) bill — is based on the fraudulent claims of a psychopath scientist who, in turn, based his data on pedophiles and sex offenders in jail, divulged media forensics expert Judith Reisman, Ph.D.

Speaking to a crowd of hundreds at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Forum Tent in Pasay City Saturday, the Jewish American researcher, 76, held the audience’s attention with slide upon slide of an entire timeline detailing the profound changes in society after the so-called “father of sexology,” American entomologist and zoologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey, released in 1948 and 1953 bogus scientific research studies on human sexuality.

A counselor for pregnant women comes out versus the RH bill

Plea to Filipinos: Defeat the Tyrannous RH Bill

by Fredi D'Alessio

In the following letter, a dear friend and associate warns her fellow Filipinos of what she has witnessed first hand in the West: the breakdown of morality, family and faith due to sex education and contraception. Her letter is in response to “The Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011″ (commonly known as the Reproductive Health Act, the RH Act or RH Bill), which is currently being debated in the Philippines.

To My Dear Fellow Filipinos:

The unfolding possibility of the RH Bill’s passing by our government fills me with horror and foreboding because so few understand the impact that such a bill would have on our children, our families, our moral values and the future of our nation. My conscience would never let me rest if I didn’t make a small effort to weigh in with what I have come to discover while living in the United States for almost 23 years.

The birth of my grandchild when my daughter was in crisis led me to get involved with mothers in crisis pregnancies so that they, like my daughter, would choose life for their babies. After 50 million abortions resulting from Roe vs. Wade that legalized abortion in the US, there are millions of women that have suffered its devastating consequences.

In the nearly 22 years I have been actively involved with these women, I began to see so clearly that the ultimate devastating decision to abort came as a direct link to failed contraception or its ensuing contraceptive mentality. There is a tremendous array of “effective” contraceptive drugs, many of them abortifacients, and devices available to women (some as young as 12) promoted through sex education in schools, magazines and the multi-media. Yet they have only served to increase the number of abortions (1.5 million annually) and the number of sexually transmitted diseases from a handful to over 50 strains in just a little over 40 years. Condoms do not prevent the transmission of many of these strains.

I have spoken to and mentored hundreds of teenage girls and young women, not one of whom was told of her unique gifts and dignity as a woman and mother. They were very receptive to messages of abstinence and natural family planning once they understood their true meaning because they have been naturally and divinely wired to believe those truths.

These are statistics and facts, but I have had the unique experience of seeing these young women heartbroken and hurt by this contraceptive culture. Most of them come from broken homes and parents who are also products of this contraceptive age. How is it not possible to see an epidemic of pregnancies among young teenagers (14, 15, and 16 year-olds) with contraception and sex education available to all? (Day care centers are now being built at public high schools.) We see so many at the center where I work. Our modern woman is told she can finally claim her reproductive rights, but she has only become a victim to greater exploitation and worse, having been convinced that destroying her unwanted, unborn child is also her option and right.

Make no mistake; the bitter fruit of contraception is abortion and the devastation of the family. Look at Thailand, the country so successful at controlling her population through a massive condom program – she is now the Aids capital of Asia. Look at its bitter fruit in the West, with its runaway abortion numbers, countless divorces, the threat to legal marriage between a man and a woman and the spread of socially transmitted diseases that are resistant to treatment. Without the building block of healthy families, these nations will soon be ungovernable, if they are not already.

There is a quiet desperation I feel as I watch the country I deeply love go down the path so many others have gone, abandoning their Christian principles and moral roots. The poet George Santayana once said, “Those who have not learned from history are doomed to repeat it”. If we go down the same path, we will lose out greatest assets – our family values and our faith-filled people.

I urge those who have the power to do so, not to pass this bill—and for those that don’t, to pray to a much higher Power that it doesn’t. If it isn’t passed, if we can find the means to control our population the natural way without destroying our values, we will see our country blessed in ways we can never imagine. Our nation once again can show the world that a people that successfully resisted a tyrant can resist the tyranny of outside influences that seek to destroy our families. In 1986, our people fought for democracy; today,we fight for our national soul. If we do succeed, it will make People Power look like a minor miracle.

Patsy M. Sevilla-Gonzalez

Patsy Gonzalez counsels pregnant mothers at Juan Diego Society Women’s Center in San Jose, CA. She also volunteers as an “angel” for The Gabriel Project of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and has extensive experience in sidewalk counseling.

How does the RH bill promote irresponsible parenthood?

From the blog Drawing Lines:

When ignorance becomes deadly
By "Petrufied"
(Originally published in The You, Inc. Chronicles)

Ever heard of the term “reproductive rights”? It sounds very nice, doesn’t it? In fact, it is a very nice concept, on the condition that by “nice” you mean “foolish” as the word meant in Old English.

Why is that? “Reproductive rights” basically points to the right to do anything with one’s fertility and body because it is one’s own. A woman with reproductive rights can kill her unborn child without being called a murderer. A husband with reproductive rights can get a vasectomy without informing his wife. A teenager with reproductive rights can have an IUD inserted without telling her parents. The big deal is, it’s their body; let them do with it as they please.

Why is sex education as proposed by the RH bill unacceptable? A short and simple answer

The following was written by Mark Lian as a Facebook note. I'm reposting it here with his permission.

ARGUMENT AGAINST SEX EDUCATION

"Informing young people about sex will lead them to try it." (this is a common argument by those against sex education).

COUNTER-ARGUMENT

"Informing young people about stealing and its evil does not necessarily lead them to try it." (this is not so common a reply to that argument, i got this from a thread

COUNTER COUNTER-ARGUMENT

Stealing is not a universal human passion, therefore it is improbable that a teaching about it and about its evil can arouse someone to try it; on the other hand, because sex is based on a universal human passion, therefore teaching young children about it (especially in the context of school education where most teachers have no time if not intention of ministering to the souls of individual students) puts them at risk of arousing their sexual passion too early or, simply, wrongly.

P.S. Some people might replace 'stealing' with 'eating' in their counter-argument. Again, while eating is a universal human desire, it is not really passion in the sense that sexual passions are. Moreover, another significant diffrence is taht eating is for individual survival while sex is for the perpetuation of the species. As individuals, we need food, we don't necessarily need sex. In this significant diffrence the revised counter-argument would still fail.

A redundant bill - 2

See also the following article: A redundant bill

Senator Pia Cayetano: REDUNDANT times 5

Willy Jose
(Published on June 7, 2011)

Earlier today, Senator Pia Cayetano delivered her sponsorship speech of the Senate version of the RH bill. In essence, she spells out 5 supposedly earth-shaking points up front of what the Senate version of the RH bill is all about. To cut it to the chaste, the 5 points she enumerated are as follows: 1) REDUNDANT; 2) REDUNDANT; 3) REDUNDANT; 4) REDUNDANT; and 5) REDUNDANT. However, she should be credited with a feel-passionate , heart-tugging sponsorship speech, but at the end of her melodramatic, long-winded speech there is only one conclusion to the discerning listener. Please bear with me for repeating it again for the umpteenth time : REDUNDANT.

Sex education with genuinely Filipino values

The normally anti-Catholic and anticlerical-dominated Definitely Filipino blog posted this piece a few days ago:

A Definitely Filipino Alternative to Government-backed and West-inspired ‘Sex Education’
By Mark Lian

It seems to me not highly prob­a­ble that a gov­ern­ment-backed and a West-in­spired ‘sex ed­u­ca­tion’ can en­sure an in­te­grated vi­sion of hu­man sex­u­al­ity. Con­sid­er­ing the pur­ported sci­en­tific ap­proach in ‘sex ed­u­ca­tion’ and the plu­ral­is­tic so­ci­ety we are be­com­ing to be, one may be lead to think that only a re­duc­tion­ist ap­proach to ‘sex ed­u­ca­tion’ is pos­si­ble in pub­lic schools.

To en­sure a more in­te­grated hu­man sex­u­al­ity ed­u­ca­tion, then, the gov­ern­ment should be the last in­sti­tu­tion to be in­volved. Hu­man Sex­u­al­ity ed­u­ca­tion must be em­bed­ded in an ed­u­ca­tion (out­side-of-the-class­room ed­u­ca­tion) about FRIEND­SHIP and HU­MAN LOVE, hu­man re­la­tion­ships of which the pri­mary ed­u­ca­tors of chil­dren are their par­ents and the whole fam­ily, an ed­u­ca­tion that is well ad­justed to our fam­ily-cen­tered val­ues as a peo­ple...

(CONTINUE READING HERE)

Christine Jacob-Sandejas versus the RH Bill

Christine Jacob's speech at the March 25, 2011 rally for life at the Quirino Grandstand, where she speaks out in particular versus "sex education":

Bishop Jose Sorra and Bernardo Villegas on Sex Education

The theology of the Body
By DR. BERNARDO M. VILLEGAS
May 20, 2011, 3:03am

MANILA, Philippines — Those who are pushing for sex education in our public schools should be aware of the types of sex education practiced in countries like the United States because some of our educators, wittingly or unwittingly, are emulating models from the West.

Fortunately, a recent book on the Theology of the Body written by former Bishop of Legazpi Jose Sorro compiled a detailed account of sex education in the US He made an expose of what is known as comprehensive sex education which teaches children not only about the biological facts of sex, but also about birth control, contraception, abortion, masturbation, homosexual behavior, and other moral evils.

The proponents of this approach to sex education claim that whatever they teach is "value free," and, therefore, allegedly free of biases and prejudices.

They fail to realize that when a teacher tells children that no sex act is immoral, and that we should not judge others who have "different sexual lifestyles" from our own, they are actually expressing a very clear ideological or philosophical bias — that there is no such thing as morality.

They are advocating a completely amoral set of values.

Bishop Sorro has done parents, teachers, and the youth a great service by documenting in his book Crumbs II some sample curricula on sex education in some US schools. He reports that after researchers, funded by the National Institute of Education, examined 60 standard social studies textbooks used by the majority of children in Grades 1 through 12 in US public schools, the central conclusion of the study was dramatic: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative positions on every known moral issue have been expunged completely from the curricula of all public school students. The words "marriage," "wedding," "husband," and "wife," did not appear once in any of the 60 textbooks.

The findings of Bishop Sorro should make Filipino parents very vigilant about what could be introduced in our public schools, whether or not the RH Bill is passed. There are already some existing textbooks that have been patterned after the US experiences. There are already contents which directly attack Christian values and traditional Filipino values.

Whereas Christianity and traditional Filipino values emphasize virginity before marriage and fidelity to the commandments of God, some of these materials patterned after US public schools have diligently banned God, and tell kids that contraception, sterilization, abortion, premarital sex, adultery, sodomy, masturbation, and even sex with animals are value-free and, therefore, involve human rights that no one can tamper with — especially parents.

Bishop Sorro specifically cites two textbooks commonly used in comprehensive sex education in US public schools. One of them is entitled Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships, probably the most popular sex education text in the United States.

It has been in continuous use in thousands of high schools since it appeared in 1980. It includes the statement, "Bisexuality is an openness to loving, sexual relationships with both sexes — our true nature... Gay men, too, have many ways of making love. One may caress the other's penis with his hand or his mouth.

Or one may put his penis in another's anus." No wonder the widely popular TV show "Glee," in the name of human rights for homosexuals, shows passionate kissing between men.

Another book cited by Bishop Sorro is called "Boys and Girls and Sex." Written by Wardell Pomeroy, it comes in separate versions, Boys and Sex and Girls and Sex. Some of the more outrageous statements found in these books are: "Premarital intercourse does have its definite value as a training ground for marriage or some other committed relationships... to make everyday comparisons again, it's like taking a car out for a test run before you buy it.... Farm boys have had loving sexual relationships with animals..."

Then there is the extremely popular program called Enhancing Skills to Prevent Pregnancy. It tells teachers to break down their student's inhibitions with the formidable weapon of peer pressure: Some teachers bring cucumbers or zucchini to class and show how to apply and remove condoms, or open the packages and unroll condoms for students to inspect and pass around.

This must have been the inspiration of a prominent Thai businessman who used to visit Philippine schools and ask girl students to blow a condom like a balloon.

This same Thai businessman was so successful in "condomizing" Thailand that this neighbor of ours may be the first country in the history of humanity to grow old before becoming rich.

Since there are US foundations who are very active in promoting birth control in the Philippines, it is not to be alarmist to fear that some of these ideas and pedagogical techniques can creep into Philippine schools, both public and private, almost by osmosis. Parents have to be very much aware of the type of sex education being imparted in the schools where their children are studying.

Nothing can be taken for granted. We have to thank Bishop Sorro for sounding the alarm bells. Those who want to purchase his book may contact Med Villanueva at 0917-521-3883 or Fr. Joseph Salando at 0922-821-6655. For comments, my e-mail address is bvillegas@uap.edu.ph.

Even the kids know that it is wrong

"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea" Mark 9:42, Revised Standard Version.


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I rarely print news reports here (as opposed to opinion or analytical pieces), but I'm making an exception for this article from CBCP News:

Children irked by sex ed in school

MANILA, April 29, 2011―A group of elementary students has reacted negatively to a lesson on sex education given them by volunteer teachers, highlighting the risks and unsuitability of the inclusion of the proposed program in the curriculum.

As part of a lesson on human sexuality, 10-year-old students from a public school were shown graphic images of what may happen as a result of engaging in sex.

Some of them were visibly disturbed by what they had seen, according to Chet Capati, a volunteer teacher who supervised the Reading Enhancement and Academic Program (REAP) – an apostolic project for public grade school students at the time of the 2010 incident.

"I saw the betrayed and pained look on my Saturday students as they related what happened a few days [after], when they received what was supposedly an eye-opener talk on sexuality. They were shown pictures of private parts of people with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)," said Capati, who saw the children weekly as part of a reading enrichment program.

The incident demonstrated what child development specialists, concerned parents and family advocates have emphasized regarding the dangers and unsuitability of including the government's proposed sex education program in the regular curriculum of the country’s elementary and high schools.

“These girls were very close to us and candid about anything they wanted to say. After the usual pleasantries and while waiting for the rest to arrive on that Saturday morning, one girl just blurted out, ‘Ate, ang bastos po,’ (It’s so indecent)” the volunteer teacher recalled. ‘Opo, Ate, ang bastos po nung tinuro sa amin,’ (Yes, what was taught to us was so indecent) another girl said,” according to Capati.

“I asked, ‘Anong bastos? (What’s indecent?)’ ‘Yung pinakita nila sa amin, Ate, (What they showed us)” replied the little girl, referring to the images of private parts of STD-afflicted persons.

The students added that they had wanted to shout to the facilitators to stop showing the pictures because the boys in the class had started to laugh.

“Pati po yung nagtuturo, tumatawa po sila, (Even the people teaching us were laughing)” the little girl described to Capati.

The facilitators who handled the lesson were college students from a private school who were giving modules on Hygiene as part of their project for a psychology class.

“The little girls had wanted to tell their teacher about the incident, but hesitated in the end because they were shy and probably thought they had no right to do so,” Capati said. “And I guess they weren’t that candid with their teachers or advisers.”

Capati expressed misgivings about the kind of messages that sex education in schools may send to students, who expectedly differ in level of maturity, personality, family background, and personal experiences.

“Yes, it’s important to get points across but always in the context of the sacredness of sexuality and not at the expense of students, whose concept of right and wrong is mercilessly distorted by so-called ‘education,’” she pointed out.

As a way to process the experience, Capati brought up the more crucial points involved.

“I had to ask them, ‘When is the right time for sex?’ To my surprise, what stuck to their young minds was the ‘Ang bastos po, Ate.’ To my question they gave all sorts of answers ranging from “sa mga mag-boyfriend (those in boyfriend-girlfriend relationships)” to “mga matanda na (the adults).” Only one answered “sa mag-asawa (the married ones).’”

“Here is a first-hand account of the possible damage this could do to our young people,” Capati said.

Proponents of The Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011 (House Bill 4244) or the RH Bill, have been contending with growing opposition, partly due to the six-year mandatory sex education program it proposes to carry out in public and private schools nationwide, from Grade 5 to 4th year high school. Also included in the recipients are out-of-school youth and enrollees in the Alternative Learning System (Sec. 16. Mandatory Age-Appropriate Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education).

Among the many groups that have been strongly opposing the measure is Families Against the RH Bill, which started out as a Manila-based organization of families but has quickly expanded to having chapters nationwide.

Chet Espino, one of the group’s convenors said “mandatory sex education is among the main points of [the] group’s manifesto against the RH Bill.”

“Parents are the primary educators of their children. This unfortunate incident you mentioned is only an example of the risks involved in allowing untrained school teachers to teach sex education to their students,” he said in reaction to Capati’s story.

“The children will grow up with a negative idea of sex, which is sacred and beautiful because it is a precious gift from God. [Sex] is not evil as these 10-year-olds now probably think. It is the parents we must educate so that they in turn may teach their children properly about sex,” he added.

After her experience with the 10-year-old students, Capati was concerned that they might develop “extreme ways of thinking, such as sex being bad, or sex being good regardless of context.

She brought the incident to the attention of the girls’ teacher as well as that of the psychology students’ school director. They were both receptive to her feedback.

“So this is a first-hand experience of yours that sex education [carried out in a school setting] is not good,” one of them said.

The RH Bill, authored by Rep. Edcel Lagman (Albay, 1st District), includes a P3 billion proposed annual budget for its implementation should it be enacted into law. Plenary debates on the measure continue in the Lower House after sessions resume on May 9. (Diana S. Uichanco)

If the RH Bill is passed... what kind of "sex education" will Filipino children get?