The Christian Institute reports on the BBC Question time debate on the sexualisation of children. (H/T SPUC) It was extraordinary to hear Peter Hitchens jeered at by many in the audience when he said that there was a link between explicit sex education and the sexualisation of children. I was left wondering: what they do think? Sex education doesn't sexualise children? There hasn't been an increase in sexually transmitted diseases? Underage sex has really been reduced by sex education?
Peter Hitchens comments further on his own blog:
As for sex education, much of it is aimed at overcoming the inhibitions of pupils about what many of them reasonably regard as private or embarrassing matters (the use of joke words for body parts in class, etc). It is perfectly reasonable to describe this as taking away the innocence of those exposed to it. As I have said before, if any adult apart from a teacher said these things and illustrated these acts in front of our children, mobs of News of the World readers would be breaking their windows and demanding they be sent to jail forever. As it is, they’re paid to do it by the taxpayer.Hitchens also spoke on other topics in a way that displeased the mob. I did not see the programme itself: I don't think that I could bear to watch more than five minutes of a programme like this. Hitchens articulates it well:
The howling intolerance of a vocal section of the audience (and the licence given to members of that audience to barrack me and interrupt me) shows how any defiance of current orthodoxy is now greeted not with argument but with rage.
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I agree with Peter. Drugs education in schools, often led by the Police has resulted in children making informed choices about which drugs they think are safe to take and to increased drug abuse. Its the same with sex education that use dto be the remit of good parents.
Sex education without moral teaching is asking for trouble, and most schools have no moral let alone Christian teaching on the curriculum.Modern orthodoxy is all about how an individual feed their own desires.
The good man should start thinking about becoming a Catholic.
The mob had the typical reaction of our times: don't hear what's uncomfortable.
Mundabor
"If sex provides the mysticism of the great liberal death wish, it needs, as well, its own special mumbojumbo and brainwashing device; a moral equivalent of conversion, whereby the old Adam of ignorance and superstition and the blind acceptance of tradition is put aside, and the new liberal man is born-enlightened, erudite, cultivated. This is readily to hand in education in all its many branches and affiliations. To the liberal mind, education provides the universal panacea. Whatever the problem, education will solve it. Law and order breaking down?-then yet more statistics chasing yet more education; venereal disease spreading, to the point that girls of ten are found to be infected?-then, for heaven's sake, more sex education, with tiny tots lisping out what happens to mummy's vagina when daddy erects, as once they did the Catechism; drug addiction going up by leaps and bounds, especially in the homes where television is looked at...- surely it's obvious that what the kids need is extra classes under trained psychiatrists to instruct them in the why and the wherefore of narcotics."
Malcolm Muggeridge: The Great Liberal Death Wish
Father I have just bought a book 'You're Teaching My Child What? from the C.T.S. An absolute must read for parents, and anyone who cares about the young. It is by Miriam Grossman M.D.
'Dr Miriam Grossman is a bright, bold, but solitary beacon revealing the avalanche of faulty sex education and counselling that is endangering the physical and emotional health of our young people and corrupting their futures. This is an alert that all parents must read, and an antidote that our young people can use against those so-called experts who would indoctrinate them.'
I just wish more people had Peter's courage. To sit before an audience of scoffers and give the sort of witness he gave on sex education is worthy of the greatest admiration. I just wonder if some of our Catholic bishops would have stood up to the mob without compromising. Stand up for religious values, or pure common sense, and you will be scorned as as a relic from a bygone era. These people pride themselves in being oh so rational yet they deliberately miss the obvious regards contraception, abortion, STDs etc: the more sex education of the present variety the more misery. Casual sex leads to the casualty ward.
Let's not over-egg the pudding. There were dissenting cries; he was not taken away and lynched. I have watched the You-Tube.
Bravo for Peter. Going against the grain is easier than going downhill (i.e. being PC).
Brendan, the time for standing up to the 'mob' has already been and the Bishops did not speak even nearly as boldly as did Mr Hitchens.
Well done, Peter. Wish we had more Catholic public speakers like you.
Laurence, thank you for your comment. One can only pray that some kind of effective leadership on sex education will yet emerge in the Catholic Church. I'm not holding my breath though. From what falls from the lips of many Catholic teenagers on human sexuality, intercourse has become associated with the F word. TV of course is saturated with this sewage and through constant exposure seeps into mass consciousness. Is there an effective Christian reply to this danger? The answer must lie in large part with those unsung, heroic young people who, despite a dominant narrative of self-gratification, continue to offer the best form of sex education by leading virtuous lives. They need our encouragement and prayers.
G.K. Chesterton's book Heretics comes to mind when one looks at the heinous mob which with their zombie like ways were all ganging up with no arguments whatsoever other than 'choice' and utilitarian comments. If people were not so scared of the truth from their established habitation in the lies which we call the 'Western system', then maybe our society would start to recover.
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