Catholic Church furious over sex education in schools
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The fact that the world population stands around 7 billion with some of the highest population centers in the poorest areas means nothing to the Catholics
The Catholics, who for centuries have cared not a bit about one’s ability to care and feed one’s children, is up in holy arms because New York City wants to put sex education back in the schools.
You see the Catholics are totally opposed to birth control in any form, and want everyone to have as many babies as they can, despite their environmental or financial circumstances. They believe that birth control is somehow against God’s law therefore it must not be practiced. In their centuries old archaic opinion sex is for procreation only, not for fun, unless you are a Catholic priest who likes little boys, then it’s OK.
The fact that the world population stands around 7 billion with some of the highest population centers in the poorest areas means nothing to the Catholics. The fact that the world is running out of means to feed the people means nothing to the Catholics. They want you to keep pumping out babies so as not to insult Jesus.
The hypocrisy of the Catholic church knows no bounds, and like most religious, their views reflect the dogma of the Bible, an ancient tome handed down over the centuries by ancient desert dwellers and scholars of the time. It matters not that the world has changed drastically, the Bible is law and the law is God.
So, when the City of New York decided it was time to educate their young about practicing birth control if they must have sex the Catholic church objected most strenuously.
Here’s the Newser summary:
Mandatory sex education is returning to public middle and high schools in New York City after nearly 20 years, and the Catholic church isn’t happy about it. A spokesman for the archdiocese says the mandate “allows the public school system to substitute its beliefs and values for those of the parents,” the New York Times reports. Public schools that rent space from the church may be forced to hold the sex education classes elsewhere.
The new curriculum emphasizes abstinence, but the church objects to the fact that lessons on contraception will also be included, and plans to encourage parents to exercise their right to opt out of that part of the program. “We don’t say that about cigarettes,” an archdiocese lawyer says. “We don’t say, here’s a filtered cigarette—it’s better than a Camel.” A former Board of Education official says the church isn’t the same political powerhouse it was in the early ’90s, when a controversy over condoms scuppered mandatory sex education. “That choir has been silenced,” he tells the Wall Street Journal.
What do you think? Should we bow to the law of the Catholics and stop practicing birth control, or should we ignore their nonsense and use common sense?
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Okay. It was sixth grade at Holy family in North Chicago. We were reading the chapter on intercourse in Becoming a Person. It was funny cause all the naughty bits were purple.
Anyway, one of the girls was reading aloud the part where the erection is inserted in the vagina and I blurted out that I was getting one of them erections. The teacher quickly came over, grabbed my by the ear and drug me to the front of the class. it was worth it cause the whole class, even the nerds. were rolling on the floor laughing.
The teacher said I was a sick little antichrist and drew a circle on the blackboard and ordered me to stand there with my nose stuck to it till class was over and my parents were called.
When I placed my nose on the chalk circle my friend Pat (who was always in trouble) said “Hey Joe. is that the missionary position your in?”
The class erupted in laughter again and Pat got drug to the principal’s office. We both got a week after school and had to write thousand word essays on our behavior. I used the word “erection” at least 300 of the thousand words.
We had sex education when I went to Holy Family. I remember the book well. “Becoming a Person.” It got me in the most trouble I ever got into at school. The teacher said I was a little antichrist. Funny story. But as funny as what got me in trouble, my friend Pat’s remark was even funnier.
I’ll relate the story if anyone wants to hear it.
Please do ! I’ve met so many single catholic mothers who told me they wished they’d of had sex ed in school.
What irks me about all of these religious institutions is the fact they get off tax exempt yet still manage to be heard in the halls of government and loudly. If you want to have input into all of this great, don’t bill yourself as a church for the tax free bennies. Otherwise shut yer fuckin pie hole.
Catholics…I got nothin’. (Eye roll, shake o’ the head, sigh.) Catholics.
The leaders of all Christian churches will never let up on their nonsense because they will lose their power and control over people and that they will never tolerate. While they have yet to reach the maniacal level of Warren Jeffs, the principal is the same.
It amazes me that in the 21st Century anyone is still listening to the mythologists. We’ve gone to the Moon, we’ve solved the riddle of life. Get over the extreme bullshit people!
they’d have a little more credibility if it wasn’t for all the child rape they sanctioned…..maybe that’s why they don’t want sex ed! If kids have some knowledge about things like “bad touch/good touch”, and “boundaries”, as well as “how your body works”, the priests will have a harder time convincing kids that it’s somehow “okay” that Father GropeyMcFeeley wants to stick his hand down their pants.
I love your “Father Gropey McFeeley” analogy! Gotta use that on my catholic friends. Problem is I may not be their friend after I do that. Oh what the hell, go for it. !
I agree with Scott. I’m also a retired Catholic and sometimes they are nuttier than the others.
As a former Catholic myself, I know all too well about the nonsense they sprout from their mouths in religious classes and the like. It just seems to me that they are a dying breed that is trying to clutch onto anything it can before sinking into obscurity. While I don’t like religion as a whole, at least most of the others practice common sense.