Mexico’s federal government is forcing the nation’s schools to adopt biology textbooks that include pornographic sex-education. The move has evoked outrage from Mexico’s Catholic bishops and state governors who have demanded the government remove the explicit material.
“We agree with the necessity of sex education, but pornographic information is something else,” Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara told the Mexican newspaper Reforma. The cardinal criticized the federal government for implementing the program, calling the decision “totalitarian” for neglecting to either consult with the Church or address the objections of parents who are the primary educators of their children.
The new sexual education course is directed at 7th graders and above, and is nothing less than a full fledged pornographic immersion course in sexual behaviors. The course tells students that homosexuality and masturbation are acceptable behaviors, includes pornographic pictures, and encourages students to find pornography on the Internet.
The bald-faced perversion encouraged by the texts has infuriated Mexico’s bishops, who steadfastly maintain that the new books will give the youth an incomplete picture of human sexuality, and encourage them to experiment with promiscuous behavior or various sorts of sexual perversity.
The head of the Mexican bishops' family affairs committee, Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martinez of Matehuala, said the Catholic Church “is not against sex education, but rather in favor of an education that is integral, age-appropriate and adequate for each individual person.”
Mexico’s bishops have challenged the federal government to recall the texts, and are joined by a number of Mexico’s state governors.
“Certain matters should be handled carefully, particularly when dealing with 11- and 12-year-olds, for the love of God,” said Eduardo Bours, governor of the state of Sonora, who has joined several other governors, who have decided to replace the textbooks with amended versions.
The sex education has been forcefully pushed by the health secretary Julio Frenk, who has consistently thrown himself at odds with the Catholic Church. He was responsible for a plan to make “morning-after pill” free at government health clinics regardless that the pill is an abortifacient.
Frenk also launched a pilot anti-homophobia campaign in Mexico City, but withdrew it bowing to heavy pressure.
“We are always very respectful of the position of all groups in our society,” Frenk told the Mexican newspaper La Jornada recently. “But at the end of the day, the government's public policies should be based on scientific evidence.”
The government expected to have distributed the 1.5 million books by August 21 to Mexico’s public schools for the upcoming school year.
(This article courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
