Monday, April 11, 2005
Well, well, look who's aligning with whom...
Despite their insinuations and outright assumptions that Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum has the backing of national political groups (which we do not), our opponents over at Teach the Facts.org have come right out and aligned themselves with a host of extremist and other left wing, pro-abortion political groups. More than 140 radical groups to be more precise, including the ACLU, SIECUS, Abortion Access Project, Advocates for Youth (a major contributor to our new health curriculum), Center for Reproductive Rights, GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network), Human Rights Watch, NOW, NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations .
It's quite interesting, really because the instrument of this alignment is a letter TTF and all of these other groups have written to HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt regarding their collective opposition to a website that the Department of Health and Human Services has set up for parents called simply enough, www.4parents.gov.
They want the website taken down, because their agenda is not being accomodated. From their letter --
"All of us agree that parents should be the primary sexuality educators of their children. Therefore, it is incumbent upon all of us to make certain that parents receive the accurate information and resources they need to achieve this difficult task. Unfortunately, 4parents.gov fails to meet these goals and instead, relies on fear to motivate and contains many errors and biases that undermine its intent of encouraging parent-child communication around sex and sexuality. This website presents biased and inaccurate information as fact and does not address the needs of many youth, including sexually active youth, youth who have been or are being sexually abused, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. "
Interesting indeed.
Here's more --
"The website dictates values to parents rather than helping them to incorporate their own beliefs into discussions regarding sex and sexuality. For example, while discussing what they can do if their child has become sexually active, parents are told how to convince their teens to stop having sex by telling their children that they are “worth it.” No resources or suggestions are provided for parents whose teen remains sexually active, implying that these youth are not “worth it.” Another example suggests to parents that “always being prepared by having condoms” is a false sense of security, regardless of whether or not their teen is sexually active. Most parents want their young people to use condoms if they are sexually active. "
Can you imagine? According to TTF, telling your child that they are 'worth it' as a means of disuading them from becoming sexually active DISCRIMINATES against those teens who remain sexually active. It will make them --feel bad about themselves.
If you can stand to read further, after all their whining how the website does not provide parents enough information about transgendered youth and other alternative lifestyles there is this --
'The website defines abortion as “ending a pregnancy before a live birth occurs by removing the fetus or unborn baby from the uterus.” Again, there is an agenda inherent in the language used. '
No, the only agenda is the one that the pro abortion groups want to instill in every young teenager -- that sex for kids is ok, in fact its to be encouraged and that for backup -- after that condom fails ... the abortion and STD clinics at Planned Parenthood are right down the street.