Condoms for First Graders, Part 2 (Editorial Version)

This is an opinion editorial related to the writer's 6/25/10 News article, Condoms for Massachusetts First Graders.

The Provincetown, Massachusetts' School Board decision to give condoms to elementary school students - beginning in first grade - shows how easily school boards are influenced by the political correctness of "Children's Rights."

"Children's Rights" movements started out of concern for child abuse, but have now extended to a child's "right" to make all their own decisions. Of course, we all know that children as young as five have been around long enough to know what's good for them. Some of the components in this philosophy are:
-Kids don't need to listen to their parents.
-Kids can do whatever feels good to them at any given time.
-Kids shouldn't allow the influence of older peoples' attitudes.
-Kids don't need discipline.
-In fact, discipline should be avoided at every opportunity. No negatives. No criticism. We may hurt their little egos. This is why our children, when they get out into the world of jobs, can't stand the littlest bit of critique.
-Kids deserve privacy in every facet of their lives.
-Even crazy statements like the one by Provincetown's school superintendent stating that condoms must be distributed without parental knowledge to honor the children's privacy (see Part 1).

Parents are all made out to be these ogres who are going to beat and abuse their children, so kids, don't tell your parents anything anymore. Oh...but you still need their permission to get aspirin at school. And you still need to be 18-21 to drink and vote. But sex at age five is okay...you know what you're doing because a teacher told you so.

Sure. Let's give kids privacy. Let's put their computer in their room and let them lock the door and never tell us anything. Let's let them meet sex offenders on line and keep them in the dark about everything except the fact that hey - early sex is good for them!

Thinly veiled temptations into sexual activity:
This school board decision is an example of the thinly veiled attempt to encourage children into the most dangerous sexual activity. It is a ploy invented by adults at children's expense to sell more condoms and abortions and promote ultra-liberal sexual agendas-including the move to desensitize society to the dangers of pedophilia and child pornography.

Provincetown, watch out - because more sex offenders will be roaming the schoolyards, looking for kids who have condoms readily available. Older adolescent boys will prey on more under-age girls, too.

There is little proof that the last three decades of early sex education has prevented early pregnancy or the spread of AIDS. In fact most studies, like the ones cited in Part 1, show just the opposite. Kids who have taken sex ed courses are more likely to have sex.

But school boards and judges alike have been convinced otherwise, by the heavy financial and legislative influence of sex-drenched industries and sex-training organizations.

The problem is, the school boards across the country are in the grips of outrageously liberal organizations who are allowed to walk in to schools to teach the kids about sex.They've bought the theory that kids are having sex younger and younger, and they need protection.

And why are kids having sex younger and younger? Because of early sex education in school. It's not preventing sex...it's encouraging it.

A new 2010 Survey was conducted for Seventeen Magazine, which is not a religiously oriented or conservatively affiliated publication; in fact it's a pretty liberal teen girls' magazine. The Survey, "That's What He Said...What Guys Think about Sex, Love, Contraception and Relationships," interviewed male teens and young men 15-22.

Among the things they said influenced them to experiment sexually at an early age was sex education in school (p. 7 of the study). More than three quarters said there is too much pressure from society to have sex (p. 3).

Planned Parenthood is invited into public schools to teach sex ed. According to their own study referenced in Part 1, they discovered early on that it wasn't working. Other organizations have discovered the same thing in more recent studies. But they keep on doing early sex education anyway.

Carol Everett, once an owner of six abortion clinics, has testified that when she worked with Planned Parenthood, she was trained to go into public schools (at the first and second grade level, sometimes even kindergarten) and begin discrediting parents to the children. She was trained to teach the children to make fun of the names their parents gave to sexual organs, and that parents were stupid for making up words.

Graduating to third, fourth and fifth grade, she was trained to begin influencing the children that their parents were too old-fashioned to know anything, and that it was okay to experiment sexually. The goal was to have this mentality instilled in the children by age 13.

All this with the goal that Planned Parenthood explained up-front to their trainees: if more girls turned up pregnant, more girls would show up at their clinics for abortions (Everett now speaks against such agendas and helps women in life-affirming decisions about unintended pregnancies).

A plea to parents, grandparents, and people of every faith:
We should be praying over our children and getting involved with them at home. Be open on the topic of sex without showing anger or disdain. Kids must know they can come to you. They are being attacked from all sides by adults who care nothing for them, but only for their own agendas and pocketbooks. Most school boards and school administrators are ill-informed about the various studies mentioned herein. You can get more information to help inform them at my following Associated Content articles:

-Condoms for Massachusetts First Graders (News version);
-Human Trafficking in America;
-Boys and Sex;
-British Government Advises Teens to Masturbate Every Day;
-Teens, Pre-Teens and the "Hooking Up" Culture.

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother"-which is the first commandment with a promise- "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth." Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord..."
(Deuteronomy 6:4-7, Exodus 20:12, Ephesians 6:1-4, NIV).

"...be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand" (Eph 6:10-13 NIV).

Sources:
-Boys' Surveyed for Seventeen Magazine:
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/resources/pdf/pubs/ThatsWhatHeSaid.pdf.
-Provincetown School Superintendent's statement: "P-Town Elementary, High Schools OK Condom Policy," Eileen Curran, WBZ-TV, 6/23/10.
-Carol Everett Planned Parenthood Interview: "Sex Education and Our Children," Focus on the Family taped interview, Dr. James Dobson, Carol Everett and Amy Stephens, cassette tape# CS946/15536, © 1995, 1998. -Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.