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orichalcum) wrote2009-03-02 10:03 pm
orichalcum) wrote2009-03-02 10:03 pm
Even worse material from the Texas sex education curriculum
So, I've posted before about my deep outrage at the farcical nature of abstinence-only sex education, which spreads lies like the idea that condoms have a 30% failure rate and that sperm and HIV can go through condoms anyway.
I had not realized, however, that at least for 9.5% of children in the Texas public school system, this was being mixed with even more fun (and illegal) religious indoctrination, with questions in the curriculum like:
"Things to Look For In a Mate:
How They Relate to God
A. Is Jesus their first love?
B. Trying to impress people or serve God?
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F. Attitude
1. Willing to obey God, or hesitate to obey
2. Humility - willing to accept correction, put other first (Phil 2:3)
3. Industrious - Proverbs 31:17
Question: What does the Bible say about sex before marriage?
Answer: Along with all other kinds of sexual immorality, sex before marriage/premarital sex is repeatedly condemned in Scripture (Acts 15:20, Romans 1:29, [and a bunch of other Biblical citations, all interestingly from the New Testament.)
Question: Are we supposed to be actively looking for a spouse, or waiting for God to bring a spouse to us?
Question: Is this person [potential mate] a Christian, meaning has she or he been born again? God tells us, as believers, not to become unequally yoked by marrying an unbeliever (2 Cor. 6:14-15), because those living in the light (of Christ) and those living in darkness cannot live in harmony.
From the "Wonderful Days" program, used in 3 school districts in the Fort Worth area:
"You will be amazed when the "sperm" of His Spirit connects with the "ovum/egg" of your spirit and you become a "new person" with His character. How? Read about it in your Bible: (NT passages cited.)
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I had not realized, however, that at least for 9.5% of children in the Texas public school system, this was being mixed with even more fun (and illegal) religious indoctrination, with questions in the curriculum like:
"Things to Look For In a Mate:
How They Relate to God
A. Is Jesus their first love?
B. Trying to impress people or serve God?
<lj-cut>
...
F. Attitude
1. Willing to obey God, or hesitate to obey
2. Humility - willing to accept correction, put other first (Phil 2:3)
3. Industrious - Proverbs 31:17
Question: What does the Bible say about sex before marriage?
Answer: Along with all other kinds of sexual immorality, sex before marriage/premarital sex is repeatedly condemned in Scripture (Acts 15:20, Romans 1:29, [and a bunch of other Biblical citations, all interestingly from the New Testament.)
Question: Are we supposed to be actively looking for a spouse, or waiting for God to bring a spouse to us?
Question: Is this person [potential mate] a Christian, meaning has she or he been born again? God tells us, as believers, not to become unequally yoked by marrying an unbeliever (2 Cor. 6:14-15), because those living in the light (of Christ) and those living in darkness cannot live in harmony.
From the "Wonderful Days" program, used in 3 school districts in the Fort Worth area:
"You will be amazed when the "sperm" of His Spirit connects with the "ovum/egg" of your spirit and you become a "new person" with His character. How? Read about it in your Bible: (NT passages cited.)
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seriously, though, there is absolutely no sense here that anyone needs to make any public acknowledgment of other faiths or no faith. (i'm in dallas, and i teach in a seminary, so believe me, i know...) public prayer takes place all the time, inflicted on everybody from a patriarchal conservative christian perspective, without qualms.