So there's a news story from across the pond explaining how Parliament has just inserted a provision in a sex-ed bill that allows "faith schools" (i.e., Catholic ones, etc.) to tell their students that things like contraception are wrong.
Terribly nice of them, isn't it?
Mind you, they're not letting the schools refuse to teach how to contracept. Oh, no. Children must still have to have a full, robust course of the how-to's.
So the message that "faith schools" will be required to give is, "Contraception is wrong according to our faith. Now here's how you do it anyway . . . "
Satisfying compromise, eh wot?
Tea and scones, anybody?
Oh, and homosexuality apparently gets similar treatment.
On “contraception is wrong according to our faith”, Jimmy Akin wrote in 2006, “Contraception is not mentioned at all in the sections [of Church documents] on adultery and fornication and other forms of extra-marital sexuality. This is the pattern in Church documents: They tend to condemn contraception in connection with marital sex, but they don’t mention it when it comes to extra-marital sex.”
I’m afraid that this is not at all absurd. It seems to me clear that, across the board, the West – is saying, “look, religious folks – our society is now this way. We are a society based entirely on certain practices that are not open to question. Amongst these are the free practice of genital behaviour of whatever sort, without consequences, and the dogma that every such behaviour must be praised as good and wholesome (of course there are several other areas, like killing the unwanted and old, and so forth). You religious folks are tolerated only within limits and eventually we will bury you. Get used to it.”
And thus I think – from their point of view, of course – this is not absurd. It is what is to be expected. And, without conversion – starting with the people of God themselves – it’s going to get a lot worse.
Or so it seems to me.
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Awfully Caucasian of them!
I hope no Catholic schools teach contraceptives. It’d be the sin of hypocrisy.
We’ll find out what kind of spines the British bishops have.
Europe is messed up. My supposedly ‘in the christian tradtion’ school (or the biology section), which is a former minor semninary, thought it necessary to show all the students a video including a detailed intstruction on how to masturbate. Why?
Europe is messed up. My supposedly ‘in the christian tradtion’ school (or the biology section), which is a former minor semninary, thought it necessary to show all the students a video including a detailed intstruction on how to masturbate. Why?
Well, the article leaves things open to interpretation. I didn’t see anything in there (did I miss it?) that said that they have to teach *HOW TO USE* contraception, they just had to teach beyond “contraception is wrong”. and that gives a lot of latitude, one hopes, for Catholic teaching.
For instance, one would be able to describe what contraception *is* (without detailing methods or use thereof), and then why the Catholic Church is against it (a lesson on Christian marriage and the proper place of sexuality within it).
One would be able to describe homosexuality in a balanced way, and then describe the Church’s teaching that explains that homosexual men and women are not to be feared or hated, but loved. Then, the Church teachings on homosexual inclinations could be presented.
Imagine the good that could be done! “The world wants you to think that the Church is intolerant of homosexuals — that’s the furthest thing from the truth! The Church teaches us that we *must* love all, and that includes homosexuals! ”
Reminds me of the Monty Pyton sketch in What is the Meaning of Life where they give a live physical demonstration and lecture on the reproductive system. To think that was parody then.
Sure we should love everybody, and should never mistreat or abuse anyone. We should treat all with charity and kindness, and that includes not just homosexuals, but everyone. So maybe Catholic school children should have special classes in which they are taught to be polite and tolerant toward the sad, the slow, the ugly, people that can’t drive, that have trouble merging, if they can’t stay in their lane, if they don’t signal, they can’t parallel park, if they’re sneezing, if they’re stuffed up, if they’re clogged, if they have bad penmanship, don’t return calls, if they have dandruff, if they have food allergies, if they have bad credit, if they have no credit, missed a spot shaving, in other words anyone at all who seems different or who sticks out as not measuring up in some way. As well as, you know, homosexuals.
Thanks to “Seinfeld”
“Murder is wrong. Here are the leading methods you shouldn’t use….”