AFTER the controversy around the “Safe Schools” program where premature experiences were the order of the day, we now have another State sponsored program in schools that encourages adults to sexualise children. The suggestion is that they expose them to sexually explicit content in order to discuss diversity and inclusion.
The program is called Building Respectful Relationships and is being funded to the tune of approximately $21 million. Its objectives are to educate students about “gender violence and respectful relationships as part of” state and federal initiatives to prevent violence against women.
Lessons cover transgenderism and deconstructing gender – whatever that means? The students are coached to use gender neutral terms like ‘partner’ instead of girlfriend and boyfriend to be inclusive of “gay and lesbian partnerships”. The age of consent across Australia ranges from 16 to 17 and UNICEF recommends that minors abstain from sexual activity.
But this new program assumes that adolescents will engage in sexual activity and asks questions to do with their decisions about sex and romance (sic).
There is a real danger that parents can lose control over these programs as activism and zealotry take over.
And despite the Federal government wanting to review these programs the State government shows a renewed determination to continue down this path of prematurely exposing children to sexuality; minimising the value and role of religious traditions in this area; usurping parental responsibility and pushing the fronts of sexual diversity and social inclusion to disguise the premature sexualisation of children. It is a cause for concern and further evidence that modernity thinks that it can do a better job than either nature or tradition in shaping healthy individuals within communities of faith and tradition.