Now
that the Ontario Liberal Party has a majority in government and no
election is in sight, Premier Kathleen Wynne has "coincidentally"
announced that in the fall of 2015, she will reintroduce the graphic Sex
Ed Curriculum that had outraged parents in 2010.
Back then, parents and religious leaders came out angrily
against Liberal plans to teach early grades about age-inappropriate
topics like masturbation, anal intercourse, oral sex, vaginal
lubrication, and the idea that being male or female is merely a “social
construct”. So strong was the backlash that McGuinty “shelved” the curriculum after only 3 days of public outcry.
At the time, CLC warned that
the curriculum was only “temporarily” shelved and would return.
Kathleen Wynne proved us right by putting this at the top of her agenda
at a time when it cannot hurt her at the voting booth. She announced the
reintroduction in October 2014, but refused to let the public see the
document for months. She even held a farcical "public consultation" in
which hand-picked parents were invited to give feedback on the
curriculum - without actually being able to see the "new" curriculum.
On February 23rd Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government finally posted
the supposedly "new" sex-ed curriculum online, after keeping it secret
for months. The sudden change in plans by the Wynne government, which
had previously said the curriculum would not be made availabe online for
several more weeks, saw it unveiled the day before a planned protest at
Queen's Park. A primary motivation of Kathleen Wynne's with this timing
was surely to get ahead of the story that a parental protest was likely
to generate.But an even more important reason for Kathleen Wynne to finally allow the public to see it after stone-walling parents for so long, is that it allowed her to change the channel on allegations of criminal conduct by herself and the Liberal Party in which it was determined that the Liberals broke the law by allegedly "bribing" a candidate to stay out of the by-election in exchange for a plumb position in government. Now the media is talking about sex-ed and not about her government's alleged criminal activity. She's now taking questions about consent, instead of answering questions about whether she should resign. But here we are. The September implementation of the new curriculum is around the corner, and parental opposition is growing rapidly.
How does the 2015 curriculum compare to the original 2010 version?
CLC has studied the 2015 proposed curriculum and we have found that the controversial elements of the program that angered parents in 2010 have remained unchanged, word for word, at the same age-inappropriate grade levels as before, when it was written under the direction of confessed child pornographer Benjamin Levin, then Deputy Education Minister. The only difference now is that Kathleen Wynne has made the curriculum even more explicit and more age-inappropriate than before, dramatically increasing the mentions of "Gender Identity" theory, sexual "identities" and "orientations".Anal intercourse is still being presented in a way that students will interpret as carrying no higher risk for STIs than vaginal intercourse, an irresponsible and misleading presentation of the former which carries a 3000% higher risk for contracting HIV. The curriculum also downplays the seriousness of contracting HIV, potentially leaving the impression with students that it's not really that big a deal. A section on HIV and AIDS seems to have an undertone of making it acceptable and normal for individuals who are HIV positive to continue having sex with others. That's not science. It's political and social engineering. It may also be highly irresponsible.
The 2015 version has added a new, controversial and very flawed theory that will be taught to elementary school children, called "gender expression". The new curriculum document also has a much stronger undertone of sex as a purely recreational activity whose purpose is pleasure, apart from love or marriage. In fact, the words "love" and "marriage" never appear once in the sex-education strand of the curriculum. Not a single mention. Does that reveal the mindset of its writers, if not the philosophical underpinnings the curriculum itself?
Impact on Catholic religious schools
The curriculum document encourages the use of condoms and artificial birth control to prevent pregnancy and STDs, something that is totally incompatible with the Catholic school system. Yet our Liberal Premier says Catholics are expected to teach it nonetheless. The 2015 curriculum adds a brand new reference to "reproductive health", which is a known euphemism that public health authorities and Planned Parenthood use to mean abortion.The Minister of Education and Premier Wynne have made it clear that the Catholic school system, like the secular public system, must implement this curriculum without exception. It is unclear how Catholic schools can implement teaching on birth control, abortion, the idea that being male or female is a social construct, gender expression, and the 6-gender theory, even if retrofitted with a "Catholic lens". Catholic moral teaching forbids abortion and the use of artificial contraception as grave evils. The theory of gender identity, gender expression and the idea that there are more genders than just male and female directly contradict Christian anthropology of the human person.
Faithful Catholic observers find it hard to believe that the Institute for Catholic Education (ICE), which is tasked with retrofitting a "Catholic lens" onto these problematic teachings, will be able to accomplish such a feat since these ideas are fundamentally incompatible with Catholicism. That doubt is heightened by the knowledge that the board of ICE includes two member from OECTA, the same "catholic" teachers union which marched in the homosexual pride parade this past summer. OECTA is also fully in support of the gay pride clubs known as GSAs being in Catholic schools.
The new Sex-Ed document is clearly a more extreme document than it's original 2010 incarnation. To save parents having to read through 244 pages, CLC has posted a detailed summary with some excerpts of the more controversial elements in the new curriculum. See below.
EXCERPTS FROM THE 2015 SEX-EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Benjamin Levin: Pedophilic influence?
It's important to consider the fact that this curriculum was also written under the direction of a confessed child sex predator, Mr. Benjamin Levin. He was the Deputy Education Minister at the time, serving under then Education Minister Kathleen Wynne. Levin was charged by police with 7 child pornography related charges, and confessed to three of them.Many people are questioning whether "grooming" could have been a reason for Levin introducing these overly explicit subjects at such delicate ages in the Liberal curriculum. Is it conceivable that the curriculum may have been designed by Levin to “prime” children, so as to make them sexually available?
When it is found that a child sex predator was in charge of writing what many parents perceive to be graphic, age-inappropriate Sex Ed curriculum, parents cannot be blamed for wanting no part of it. Should warning bells be going off when we learn that an alleged pedophile oversaw the writing of curriculum which gets 6 year olds talking about their genitals, encourages kids to masturbate, and wants to get 13 year olds thinking about oral sex and anal sex? Like his advice to the undercover cop on techniques to lower the child's inhibitions regarding sexual matters, might this rather graphic curriculum have been designed with an eye to lowering the inhibitions of children in Ontario elementary schools regarding sexual matters?
The safety of children is too important to ignore Levin's hand in this curriculum.
Can we know a curriculum by the company that it keeps?
It's not average moms and dads who are asking for this curriculum to return. In fact 100,000 Ontario parents have signed petitions against it. So who is actually pressuring the Liberals to bring back the controversial curriculum?Several radical organizations, or those with ties to radical groups have been publicly lobbying the Liberals to bring back the 2010 curriculum since it was first retracted by Premier McGuinty. These include:
- OPHEA (The Ontario Physical & Health Education Association): partners with a "sex education expert" called Sexpressions which offers explicit, classroom teaching aids like "The Guide To Getting It On Book"
- Planned Parenthood Toronto: promotes abortion, anal play (e.g. fisting), sex toys, and the viewing of pornography. See excerpts below from Planned Parenthood's educational resources for 13-year-olds.
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- Queer Ontario: promotes bondage, sadism/masochism, casual sex and group sex (see below from their website)
- Communist Party of Canada (Ontario): like all communists, it seeks to throw off "the shackles" of God's moral laws in society and bring about an atheist utopia where virtually all areas of public and private life are dominated by an all-powerful state.
Help us warn parents
Due to biased and poor media
coverage of this controversial Sex Ed curriculum, most Ontario families
are unaware that this dangerous curriculum update will be imposed on
their children and grandchildren starting in the fall 2015 school year.
Although Campaign Life Coalition and other pro-family groups have been
trying to educate the public about the harmful nature of this
curriculum, our reach is limited. What's missing is education by clergy
from the pulpit. To help make it easy for clergy to inform their
congregation members about the looming Sex Ed changes, we have provided a
sample bulletin announcement and sample pulpit announcement for
pastors. Click here to download it
in PDF format, then give it to your pastor or church secretary and
respectfully ask if they would include it over the coming weeks and
months. Handouts for small group discussion are downloadable here, as well as a Powerpoint presentation from Campaign Life Coalition which you can request via email.
To learn the 12 things you can do to stop Kathleen Wynne's radical sex-ed curriculum, click here.
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