Peace and Grace
Joanne Sturgess
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada

A horrifying thought, but sadly you may well be right. The way things are heading, such a scenario is not all that unlikely.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

Actually, I had a thought about this. This is just the beginning of the process to make pedophilia acceptable. After all, if kids have a right to a hot sex life, they will need sex partners and what better than an experienced, older partner?

Pedophilia is currently seen by most Aussies as an abominable crime. How long ’til it becomes a “human right”? I give it 10 years.

Louise Le Mottee

Very beautifully put. And very true.

Isn’t this whole sex push really coming from The Ideologues who just want the populace to be obedient to their will? You know, a Bread and Circuses kind of deal.

Louise Le Mottee

As a teacher, one who has taught sex ed many times over the years, I am grateful for the moral and spiritual framework that I deliver as part of the program. How can they be separated?

Yes, I count it a joy and honour to work as a Pastoral Worker in a Christian college. I know that many of my students do not come from a home with a Christian morality, and I feel great that I and other similar staff, may in part do a little bit to try to stem this stinking raging tide imposed upon our precious young ones.

May God give us strength to continue to fight. God help them, and help us all!

Thanks for fighting the good fight Bill.

Note: Our college uses the “No Apologies” program produced by Focus on the Family.

George Kokonis

I agree with you there as well. Children don’t have the same rights/liberties/responsibilities as adults.

I was just floored by the idea that anybody would argue for the idea of “sexual fulfillment” as a right at all. There is something fundamentally diseased about his notion.

Jason Rennie

I would like to challenge the basic idea that children or teenagers are the equal of adults, and therefore are entitled to the same liberties. I believe that this comes also from the misguided Enlightenment theories of equality (meaning sameness or any form of mathematical equivalence).

Biblically, each person is unique, but everyone is treated with both justice and mercy by God. So, in one way, God treats everyone equally, but in another, individually or uniquely.

Thus the modern bundle of ideas labelled ‘equality’ is inadequate to embrace the ‘both-and’ of God’s dealings with us – both equally and uniquely.

We already recognise in our consciences that there are times in life where certain things (such as marriage and sex or on a trivial level, driving a car or holding a job) are permissible for some but not for others because they are at different stages, or they do not qualify.

We also recognise that certain rights/responsibilities can be forfeited if we fail to fulfill our part of the “bargain”. Marriage is for life – if we can’t ‘make a go of the relationship’ we don’t have any Biblical mandate to divorce and then try again.

Or, having a criminal record precludes a person from holding certain public offices. There is no need to consider remorse, forgiveness or rehabilitation because there is merely a simple requirement for qualification.

This we see in the OT, where there was no point arguing that a Benjamite would have made a better priest. The Mosaic Law said that priesthood came through Aaron and the Levite line. If you didn’t qualify, that was the end of the story.

John Angelico

1. As you said, the bad sex education/revolution has been going on for some time now – therefore today’s teachers themselves are the product of this system: they cannot teach what they do not possess, understand, or practice.

2. Sexuality is in a category of its own in terms of how one should talk about it. It is sacred, it is mysterious, it is protected by modesty. No one is tempted to own a slave from seeing a slave ship, but respect for human sexuality can be damaged even by trying to teach by counter-example, such is the power of scandal.

Sebastian Szyszkowicz