{"id":8126,"date":"2014-10-31T03:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2014-11-01T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:26:18","slug":"sex-education-caroline-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/sex-education-caroline-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Education Could Become Compulsory Under Proposed Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caroline Lucas is the Green Party MP for Brighton. Her Bill seeks to make sex education compulsory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sex education could become compulsory in all state schools under a Bill<\/a> <\/strong>introduced by Brighton MP Caroline Lucas.<\/p>\n

Under current law, free schools and academies are not required to follow the national curriculum. Moreover, many parents choose for their children to opt-out of sex education classes, preferring to offer chastity-based education at home.<\/p>\n

Caroline Lucas\u2019s private members bill<\/a><\/strong> would force all state schools to offer sex education. Known as Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (Statutory Requirement) Bill 2014-15, it is expected to have its second reading debate on\u00a027 February\u00a02015. Meanwhile, Parliament has been collecting information from witnesses<\/a><\/strong> for and against the proposals.<\/p>\n

A very revealing article appeared in the Guardian last week<\/a><\/strong> giving a glimpse of some of the disturbing content presented to students under the guise of “sex education”, including three-dimensional pornography (although Sally Weale, the author of the Guardian article, seemed to think it was great). If Lucas\u2019s Bill passes, we can expect UK schools to be flooded with these types of crude lessons, ostensibly to prevent sexual violence and inform students of things like consent and STDs.<\/p>\n

Although the proposals are supported by most of the “experts” in the establishment, parents are overwhelmingly opposed to it. Last year a Labour amendment to the Children and Families Bill proposing the same was voted against by Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.<\/p>\n

Professor David Paton, chair of industrial economics at the University of Nottingham, expressed the feeling of many when he said<\/p>\n

“There seems no sound reason to introduce statutory SRE in schools or to end the right to parents\/carers to opt their children out of school-based SRE.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is interesting is that professional organisations are pushing for statutory sex education but almost all of the responses from parents are against. There is an ideological divide about who are the experts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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