Friday, September 12, 2008

Obama on Sex Education

I just got this information from Sean Hannity's radio show, but I dug up some of his documentation so you can read it for yourself.

First of all, take a look at what an Obama spokesperson said about sex education for kindergarteners (see here):

"Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells First Read: 'You can teach a kid about what's appropriate and not appropriate to protect them from predators out there.' In addition, he issued a document showing that the Oregon Department of Education has guidelines for sex education for children in grades K-3 (which includes understanding the difference between a good touch and a bad touch), and that the Sexuality Information And Education Council of the United States has curriculum for those in kindergarten."

But the SIECUS guidelines want kindergarteners to learn more than the difference between a good and a bad touch. For Level 1 (ages 5-8), it recommends that they learn about the names of their body parts, that the parts can feel good when touched, and the "m" word. (Keep in mind that James' Thoughts and Musings is G-rated). Obama says he doesn't want the sex ed for kindergarteners to be explicit? This manual says teachers should practically spell out the birds and the bees for their Level 1 students. And it clearly presents homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle. This isn't right-wing exaggeration! Take a look at the report yourself:

http://www.siecus.org/_data/global/i...guidelines.pdf

To his credit, the bill Obama supported allows parents to exempt their children from such instruction. But the liberal hypocrisy is evident. When the issue is prayer in school, most liberals aren't satisfied with simply exempting the atheist or Buddhist kid from a prayer session. They want to take prayer completely out of the public school so that no one is offended. But their policy is quite different when it comes to sex education.

Another note: I think that children should be warned about predators. I was taught about them in my elementary school. But I don't remember the warning being all that graphic!