California is forging ahead with a new sex education framework designed with the guiding hands of groups like Planned Parenthood and the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, despite a flood of objections from parents, teachers, community and religious leaders from across the state.
The issue boiled over on March 28 when a coalition of parents, pastors, teachers, students, politicians and community leaders marched to the state capitol to denounce “The California Healthy Youth Act” and demand the California Department of Education reject the “SeXXX Ed” framework.
Teacher and education activist Rebecca Friedrichs explained why in a recent editorial for the Redlands Daily Facts:
Because both the law and the proposed framework adopt sexually explicit, medically inaccurate and age-inappropriate sex education curricula used to indoctrinate children in California schools.
For example, as early as pre-school, children are deceived into thinking their parents “assigned” them a gender at birth because they don’t really know the genders of their own kids and there’s actually a “spectrum” of genders. Kids are also exposed to casual attitudes about sex and sexually explicit content and told how and where to obtain birth control and abortions without parental knowledge or permission. We K-12 teachers — who are mortified by the way — are instructed to teach the kids sexual behaviors and protections that are too graphic to print in newspapers and would make sailors blush. The lessons stomp on childhood innocence, parental authority and teacher rights.
Hundreds of citizens of varying ethnicities representing communities across the state denounced the sex ed framework during a recent hearing at BOE’s Instructional Quality Commission, while only 10 spoke in favor.
The objections ranged from concerns about government overreach to the inaccurate information in the lessons themselves to the biased politics of the groups involved in creating them, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the teachers unions that hold considerable sway over the state’s liberal politicians.
“I’m very disturbed by the fact that the framework in middle school defines ‘spiritual abuse’ as ‘Using religion to justify rigid gender roles.’ Since when has the state of California become the Church of California?” Orange County Pastor Gheorghe Rosca told state officials, according to Friedrichs.
“The other thing I’m very confused about is why the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, GLSEN, and Human Rights Campaign are plastered all over these chapters? This is a very biased framework. I urge you to reject it,” Rosca said.
It didn’t happen. Instead, the IQC “snubbed public outcry and unanimously recommended the offensive Health Framework. It’s set to be approved by the California Board of Education in May,” Friedrichs wrote.
And while the board has yet to formally adopt the lessons, schools are already implementing them over the objections of parents who are left without the ability to opt their children out of lessons focused on normalizing LGBTQ lifestyles, the Desert Sun reports.
Late last year, a board meeting for the Desert Sands Unified School District was flooded with angry parents, who shouted their objections to the curriculum presented to ensure their voices were not ignored.
“We go by what the Bible says, and there’s only two genders,” one parent yelled.
“They teach marriage as a type of relationship,” Jonathan Hitt, another parent, told the Sun. “We teach marriage as the ultimate relationship.”
Others, including America Figueroa, argues parents should have control over what their children learn about sex, and said the LGBTQ curriculum is “catering to a minority.”
“It is explicit. It is graphic. But they are making it seem like everything is fine,” she said. “To be honest I think it’s better for them to learn it when they’re ready to learn it.”
Despite the objections in the Desert Sands district and others, numerous school boards are forging ahead with plans to implement the new “sexxx ed” this year.
In the meantime, Friedrichs writes, education advocates are campaigning for Senate Bill 673, which “adds provisions to CHYA for transparency, parental opt-in and accountability.”
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