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The Joyful Mysteries of Life
by Catherine and Bernard Scherrer
Family Publications,
Ignatius Press
75 pp.
1-800-651-1531
About ten years ago, when the public school board of Tempe, Arizona was considering a K-12 sex education curriculum, the local pro-life network urged concerned parents and other residents to review the materials.
The content of the program was shocking. A film for kindergartners showed a boy and a girl in a bathtub together pointing out and labeling each other’s private parts. In a clinical tone, masturbation was defined by the junior high text as a normal, and even necessary, component of sexual health. The manuals for grades 7 through 12 defined various methods of birth control, including abortion and abstinence, but excluded natural family planning. Aberrant behaviors, such as anal intercourse, were described as matter of factly as a weather report on a sunny day, along with the suggestion that the young person might be a homosexual.
In no grade was there a serious discussion of marriage, or even love, the assumption being that sexual desires are merely itches that need to be scratched. Needless to say, the virtue of self-control and its necessity for human maturity was never mentioned.Read article at:
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