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TechnoratiThis follows an emerging trend in judicial activism. In 2002, a judge in Massachusetts ruled that a junior high school boy must be permitted to attend classes while wearing girls’ clothing. Judge Giles justifies her decision by claiming that “exposing children to diversity at an early age serves the important social goals of increasing their abilities to tolerate differences and teaching them respect for everyone’s experience in that ‘Brave New World’ out there.”
In a dispute that is still ongoing, the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education last year adopted a sex education curriculum designed to teach tolerance of gays and lesbians. Among other things, course materials described as a “myth” the belief that “homosexuality is a sin” and characterized certain Christian religions as “intolerant and Biblically misguided” because they are “opposed to homosexuality.”
The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teacher’s union representing more than 2.7 million teachers and educators offers the manual A School Employee’s Guide to Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues (GLBT) in which they state, “NEA stands committed to addressing the needs of and challenges faced by both GLBT students and our GLBT members and colleagues. And we will continue to work to secure GLBT rights as part of our larger effort to secure human and civil rights for all in and outside of the classroom.” The NEA actively promotes GSAs and works closely with the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Committed to homosexual activism, “GLSEN works with educators, students, and the community to help children learn to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.” (Quote taken from the NEA website)
Suffice it to say that since its inception in the 1960s, the “modern” approach to sex education has been accompanied by epidemic rates of sexually transmitted disease among teens, out-of-wedlock teen pregnancies, and psychological trauma.
However, it would be a mistake to regard this approach as merely misguided when in fact it is quite deliberate and its aims are very specific. It is as Dr. Calderone so plainly put it more than two decades ago; an effort to “pry children away from old views and values, especially from biblical and other traditional forms of sexual morality.”
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S. Michael Craven is the President of the Center for Christ & Culture, a ministry of discipleship and Church renewal that works to equip Christians with an intelligent, thoroughly Christian and missional approach to culture. For more information on the Center for Christ & Culture, additional resources, and other works by S. Michael Craven visit: www.battlefortruth.org
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