Not only will little boys and girls, beginning at age five, have to learn about their penises and vaginas, they'll also learn about dating, relationships, and yes, gay marriage. But don't worry: Learning about HIV and intercourse won't arrive in the classroom until middle school.
Oh, but what if you attend Catholic school?
In England, with a school system that's reportedly one-third composed of faith schools, sex ed will be permitted to be taught based on religious beliefs at those schools. That means students will have to be instructed about abortion and The Gays, but at the same time can be told both are sinful, terrible things.
Parents will have the option of opting their kids out of the lessons — what does "compulsory" mean, then? — but only through age 15, which means they'll have one year of mandatory sex ed before they're legally allowed to screw as a "consenting adult." Hoorah!
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I see England is still on the map.
Weird, the way evangelicals talk about this sort of thing I'd have thought their god would have wiped the place out by now.
I was brought up under the paranoia that I would be molested, so both my sister and I knew what penises and vaginas were… I didn't know what being gay meant until I was 13… so, what are they afraid of, there are going to be gays either way.
@YallowRanger, he's still dealing with the Netherlands. Of course, if their God's having trouble wiping out a country that's largely at or below sea level, you can imagine the trouble he'll be having with a country as hilly as England.
Re. the faith schools, many English & Welsh primary schools (equivalent to US elementary) are linked to the Church of England or Church of Wales, in most cases because they were originally founded by the local church. Opposition to faith schools is growing, both due to their role in the increasing balkanisation of some ethnic minorities and due to their role in increasing homophobia.
England is still way ahead in terms of laws for the protection of GLBT folk and this extends that protection to children and young people by providing them with the tools to keep them healthy.
As for the cult schools they should be confiscated without compensation and reopened as secular schools. This measure will immediately stop most of the sexual abuse that occurs when ministers, nuns, priests, imams and rabbis are permitted to be around children.
A second major task confiscation will accomplish is to end the psychologically harmful practice of terrifying children with horrific tales of guilt and punishment.
To accompany that measure all cults should be taxed like every other part of the entertainment industry. And made to pay back taxes.
They should be forbidden to interfere or even comment on civil affairs and such behavior should be criminalized.
One third of our schools are faith schools? I recognise that many British schools have a "christian flavour" to them,(as Tavdy79 pointed out, many of them were originally church-founded) but a full third being actually specialised "Faith schools"? I'm dubious of this statistic, it seems rather high. I'm not familiar with PinkNews. I'd quite like to know where they got these numbers from.
In anycase, the situation is being blown well out of proportion by the tabloid newspapers. Because the course plan starts at five, that in no way means that their going to leap right into the gritty stuff with children. At most they'll be discussing safe sex, both straight and gay, with teenagers who need to know it. They won't be teaching toddlers how to properly fit a cock-ring.
Also, Perdue, did you go to a faith school yourself? If not, it's probably unfair to demonise all of them. There may well be some seriously messed up people in charge of some of them, but you get seriously messed up people in all walks of life. This "all religious figures are child-brainwashers who subscribe to the NAMBLA/PIE mailing list" attitude is beyond cynical, into a territory I do not have words to describe.
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No. 5 • William Day – I suspect that the reason that you've never heard of PinkNews is because they're proGLBT and opposed to the rape of children by ministers, nuns, priests, imams and rabbis.
Perhaps, Day, you've heard of the Times of London. They say that "About one third of the 21,000 state schools in England are faith schools, the vast majority Christian. Of the 48 that are non-Christian, 37 are Jewish, seven Muslim and two Sikh.” Those cult schools are funded by taxpayers in England who are unfairly forced to pay for the indoctrination of children by cults. Since you seem unable to research using the internet I’ll help you out just this once with a link http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....409948.ece
You quoted someone to the effect that “This "all religious figures are child-brainwashers who subscribe to the NAMBLA/PIE mailing list" Do you mind telling us who said that. I hope you didn’t just make that up on yourself in an attempt to deny that cultists around the world abuse children sexually or such abuse is much more common in cult schools. Because if you deny that sexual abuse of children is not a huge problem in cult schools we’ll just dismiss you as another unfortunate wretch brainwashed by the cults.
Cults should be taxed and cult schools should be closed to prevent sexual abuse of children.