An Education
I was recently reading an article about the teaching of sexual education in schools with regards to different religous views. In particular, this article referred to the many complaints from the Christian parents of students at several junior schools. The issue they raised against the teaching of basic sexual education to their children was that it "perverted basic christian virtues". Now, I am not a Christian so therefore may be misinterpreting something here, but I cannot understand how any parent or any child can wish ignorance upon their child...especially when the subject is something that is becoming increasingly current; it is naive to think that children are or can be "kept children" like they used to be given the influences of today. I was also concerned that the comments from parents indicated it was only Christian who have these "basic morals" installed in them!
A religion does not ensure nor equate to decent behaviour and an understanding of "basic morals" and sooner or later, every child needs to know what is being taught.
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Comment by Denise Donnelly on May 13, 2010 at 20:19 -
HI Abbie, I agree with you, although I was brought up in an Irish Catholic family and studies religion for 7 years, I regard myself as a non denominational liberal Christian I haven't been a practicing Catholic since I was 8 ( I take what i believe to be good things from Christianity and reject the bad). Anyhoo... just to give you a Christian perspective on this, it is this belief that man cannot interfere with things like birth and death etc. That it is something divine and should be respected. Marriage was created in order to keep people out of sin. A true practicing Christian would have no need for birth control IF they believed "god should have the power of opening and closing the womb". I wish to stress that this is a minority of Christians, most Christians today recognise how important contracpetion is, and how important sex education is to be taught. I totally understand your frustration, however, I think it is just about respecting what they believe is right for their child and what they believe goes against their religion and they have every right to protest about it. Most of the time they do it in all good faith.
sorry for the long comment! <3
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