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

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

How do they get away with that?

[contrariety.livejournal.com]

""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.)"

Um.... EW EW EW EW BAD METAPHOR BAD BAD?

[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*

[wildpaletz.livejournal.com]

AHHHHH

[hillarygayle.livejournal.com]

This is maddening. On the one hand, Texas has a pretty stellar educational system in the metropolitan areas as far as academic outcome (I'm thinking of the Plano ISD here). The graduation rate & the test scores are great. So much so that Bryan & I are considering moving to the city where his parents live, Frisco, so that Ganon can be involved in that educational system. I'd love to know they teach abstinence. I can counter that myself (no child of mine will ever be that ignorant about his or her own anatomy), but it irks me on a moral level.

On the other hand, we'd be coming out of Arkansas. I grew up here & Bryan teaches here, so we know what goes on here anyway. Bryan's school routinely has religious figures as motivational speakers.

[sharpchick.livejournal.com]

Did you send this to the ACLU?

[a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com]

I just want to point out that this crap is dishonest even as religious indoctrination--Acts 15:20 and Romans 1:29 have nothing to say about premarital sex, for example. (Is there a name for the practice of saying "Scripture clearly says X is a sin and it's bad" with a citation that says merely "Sinning is bad"? Other than "lying"?)

Question: Is this person [potential mate] a Christian, meaning has she or he been born again?
And non-Baptist Christians say, "Um, ex-squeeze me?"

I...just...AAAAAAAGH.

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

"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.)

This sounds a bit like Aleister Crowley. Crowley, however, was never shy about dramatizing this sort of symbolism, in a very direct and tangible way, through ritual. I'd offer links, but I'm at work right now.