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 PrintableVersion The outrage of amoral sex educationAdvice to parentsTHE OUTRAGE OF AMORAL SEX EDUCATION This book aims to explain to parents and church leaders the amoral ideology behind sex education. It is easy to read and illustrated throughout with pictures and quotations. Starting with a survey of the government’s attempts to reduce teenage pregnancy it concludes that, ‘over the last three decades successive British governments have succeeded in developing a contraceptive culture among children’. Using many extracts from literature sponsored by the Government’s Health Education Authority, the book shows how children are encouraged to discover their sexual orientation and do what they want. It describes the inappropriate use of sexual language and explicit images used by sex educators, although the conclusion that our children are ‘being groomed for a life of promiscuous sex …this is state sponsored child abuse’ is provocative and didn’t ring true to my experience as a secondary school teacher. One wonders whether the material presented is a fair reflection of sex education in our schools or just focused on the extreme examples. A strong link is made between the ideology of the sexual revolution and sex education, concluding: ‘The real objective of sex education is to destroy traditional morality and promote the amoral ideology of the sexual revolution’. In a chapter titled ‘The Great Christian Compromise’, the book attacks Christian organisations that seek to influence and teach sex education, including CARE, Christian Medical Fellowship, Christian Aid and Oasis Esteem. It is particularly scathing of Christians who promote the ABC campaign in Schools (A for Abstain, B for Be faithful, C for use Condoms). It argues that ABC is fundamentally amoral for it fails to set sexual relations in the biblical context of marriage. It makes this bold conclusion, ‘Those Christians seated around the ABC table have come to an accommodation with the detestable teachings of the sexual revolution.’ Such teachers are likened to Balaam; ‘Sex educational programmes developed by “Christian” organisations are deceiving many into following the shameful ways of the sexual revolution and bringing the way of truth into disrepute’. It continues that they are like the men in Jude 4 who change the grace of God into a licence for immorality. This insults the bold stand of godly people who like the author would love the freedom to teach biblical truth in our classrooms. In my opinion it demonstrates a failure to realistically engage with a godless society where ABC represents the conservative extreme and where we are called to influence the sin ruined structures of our society however we can. Advice to parents is to withdraw children from sex education at school, although there is no mention of finding out what their child’s school teaches first. Advice is also confusing in that at one point parents are discouraged from talking with their children about sex, and at another point parents are urged to teach sex within the biblical framework. In the Appendix there is an article titled ‘The Divine Plan for Sexual Conduct’. This is recommended as a teaching aid. While the book is a helpful exposure of the kind of things that are taught in our schools, I was disappointed at the lack of positive advice and help in being salt and light in this vital area. Pete Hitchcock,
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