LETTER: Parents should control sex ed, not schools or NYS

To the editor:

Any time you hear the words “comprehensive sex education” you should take heed. Parents are bestowed with the sacred stewardship of raising their children. God has given you your children and He wants to help you raise them. Your children do not belong to the district nor to the state of New York. While uncomfortable at times, all parents should have primacy over their children’s sex education. This is our responsibility as parents and it’s better to address it sooner than later. It’s far better to have the difficult conversations with your children when they are younger than to try and overcome the outcomes of some poor sexual decisions that are tied to faulty sex education promulgated by the state of New York and their progressive affiliates.

To relinquish this parenting responsibility to progressive sexual ideals is detrimental to both your child’s body as well as their soul. The ever-expanding spectrum of sexuality and gender identity and expression advocated by the LGBTQ community would be included in this comprehensive sex education program.

For every millennium that mankind has been around there were only two genders, male and female. In Genesis 1 it reads, “Male and female He created them.” Now there are over 50 gender labels or descriptions, including the non-binary or nonconforming gender identity and expression that does not identify as either male or female. How can that be? There is sex education material for 3rd through 5th graders exploring the differences between gender identity and gender expression. How can that be?

The audacity of some people messing with other parents’ children is startling. The advocates of this new comprehensive sex education will seek to co-opt your role as parents, instilling the values they want your children to possess and exhibit and they will come after them as young as you let them! Jesus has some harsh words for such people: Matthew 18:1-6.

The last thing our children need in our New York state school districts and the rest of our nation is a heavy, top down, one size fits all approach, boxing out parents as the primary instructors of their children’s sex education. Parents, are you comfortable having any of your children, whether they are in elementary, middle, junior high or high school, exposed to and indoctrinated by this kind of sex education? While they promise freedom, liberation and a life of no shame, that is not how it works. Our decisions have consequences. Shall we raise the bar for our children or further lower it?

And true to progressive ideals, their comprehensive sex education would include reproductive health, which is rooted in and revolves around abortion, potentially right up to an unborn baby’s viability and even just before birth. Our nation has already terminated the lives of 63 million unborn babies since 1973. Can anyone comprehend the collective amount of life that is?

Jesus invites us to build a solid foundation for life, this one and the one to come, by heeding and acting on His Word…the Bible.