Every day I receive more confirmation that homeschooling my kids was the right decision. First I found out that President Obama plans on his first wave of indoctrination speeches to children in public schools and now the UNESCO sex ed guidelines are due out shortly.
For those of you who don’t know, UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Yikes! Just the name strikes fear into the hearts of conservative parents everywhere. UNESCO sex education guidelines were pulled down from their website back in June due to controversial topics like teaching 5 year olds about masturbation. What’s so controversial about that?
The “new and improved” UNESCO sex ed guidelines are due out anytime, but in the meantime you and I can just sit around and be vilified for our stance on sex education in the class. My stance is let the parents handle it. UNESCO feels that teaching students at a younger age postpones sexual activity among students and helps to curb the spread of disease such as HIV/AIDS. They also feel that it stems the tide of teenage pregnancy. From Time magazine:
UNESCO recommends that students be instructed about contraception and the differences between “safe abortion and post-abortion care” and the potentially life-threatening forms of improvised pregnancy termination.
Nice, apparently the new UNESCO sex ed guidelines also inform students about “safe” abortions. As opposed to unsafe abortions? I wonder if they happen to mention that a life is terminated in a “safe” abortion.
Now the Time article is of course trying to defend the UNESCO sex ed guideline document. Stating and I quote:
The obsession with onanism is a bit curious, given that the 102-page document mentions masturbation only five times: twice to explain to 5-to-8-year-olds what the term means, saying teachers should note that it’s “not harmful, but should be done in private,” and the other three times in a section referring to 9-to-15-year-olds, pointing out that these kids should be told it “does not cause physical or emotional harm” and is “often a person’s first experience of sexual pleasure.”
Yet that focus and the wider conservative reaction to the UNESCO document seem to reflect a similar strategy to the one employed to fight President Barack Obama’s proposed health-care reform.
Oh so now, we are going to employ a strategy used to fight Obama’s healthcare. Which is what? Telling the truth about some crappy encroachment of government into our personal lives?
In this case, we’re not just talking about American liberals trying to enforce some socialist piece of propaganda; the UNESCO sex ed guideline malarkey is on a worldwide scale. Conservatives in the United States stand the greatest chance of fighting it, and winning.