Even worse material from the Texas sex education curriculum

[orichalcum]

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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Comments

[jab2.livejournal.com]

one of my friends works with the group that put out that report (and my friend is chair of our religious studies dept, so at least the non-fundies aren't always in positions of power.) he forwarded it to a couple of us to make us laugh and cry at the same time.
the one that really got me laughing, though, was the one where the district superintendent of a country school explained in print that they didn't teach about the details of how sexual intercourse works because all the farm kids knew it already from watching the farm animals. *FACEPALM*

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Fair enough - didn't mean to exaggerate. Sigh... - I guess that means that at least kids are learning more than the missionary position? :)

[jab2.livejournal.com]

oh, i didn't mean to say you exaggerate. you don't! he studies the problem, but doesn't actually work in public school or secondary school teaching. the fundies have it, pretty much. the amount of *unlearning* that has to go on once they hit college is frightening. the numbers that don't hit college because they got hit with consequences before getting to college is prob more frightening, just less visible to me.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

the one that really got me laughing, though, was the one where the district superintendent of a country school explained in print that they didn't teach about the details of how sexual intercourse works because all the farm kids knew it already from watching the farm animals. *FACEPALM*

My school didn't explicitly teach to this standard, but honestly? The teachers were as embarrassed to talk about it as we were to hear about it, and I think it was as much because they presumed we'd already been sneaking our parents' porn as because we had farm animals, that never in my sex-ed did they ever _really_ explain the mechanics of heterosexual intercourse. I got most of the way through high school before I really understood how human penile erections worked-- I can remember making fluid dynamics jokes about it as a college frosh, but I'm pretty certain I'd only figured it out from other people's remarks in the preceeding year.

It wasn't that I got the information from observing animals as much as I got from hearing adults cracking jokes based on comparing farm animal copulation to human acts. I would prefer not to hear those jokes EVER AGAIN thanks.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to spare you. :)