News Item: : Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone!
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Tuesday 25 April 2017 - 13:01:20

During the first week of Lent, we lamented here that Archbishop Malcolm McMahon, in his capacity as Chairman of the Catholic Education Service (CES), had welcomed the British Government's distressing decision to make ''relationships and sex-education'' compulsory in all primary schools for children of four years and upwards.

As each of us knows from our own struggles with temptation, sin and spiritual warfare, it is never a good idea to allow the Devil any opening whatsoever; to permit him even an inch is an open invitation for him to take a mile.

Perhaps none of us should really be surprised to hear that the UK's National Union of Teachers (NUT), unhappy that the specific promotion of ''LGBT issues'' had not been included in plans to update the sex-ed curricula in high schools, has just passed a radical motion encompassing even children of nursery school age.

As the London Telegraph has reported, Annette Pryce of the NUT's executive committee, had reported to the NUT's Annual General Meeting that, what were termed ''LGBT values'', had been left out of rewritings of curricula due to pressure from, what was described as the ''right-wing, religious lobby''.

Gosh, who knew such a thing even existed with any kind of voice in post-modern Britain! Certainly, it would have been easy to overlook any such phenomenon in light of the strange silence of most of the Bishops of England and Wales over the matter...

In any case, according to LifeSiteNews, a motion was endorsed at the NUT's recent AGM in Cardiff to overcome this ''religious resistance'', and teach all children, starting from nursery school age upwards, that ''LGBT persons and relationships'' are normal.

Overseas readers should be aware that nursery school age refers to youngsters between the ages of two and four.

In the words of LifeSiteNews: ''The British Government is already committed to making sex and relationships education compulsory at all levels. Nursery schoolers will learn that same-sex parenting is normal and be instructed to spot and avoid inappropriate touching. Seven-year-olds will learn, on the other hand, that masturbation is appropriate touching.''

Talk about the destruction of childhood innocence.

It remains to be seen how Archbishop McMahon and the CES will negotiate these things, whilst also fulfilling his officially expressed desire to work ''closely with the Government to shape any new guidance to enable Catholic schools to continue to deliver outstanding RSE (relationships and sex education), in accordance with parents' wishes and Church teaching.''

Perhaps a good place to start would be to instead read and implement the Pontifical Council for the Family's 1995 document, The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality. 

By having officially welcomed compulsory relationships and sex-education into Catholic primary schools, Archbishop McMahon and the CES have together opened another major crack in the defences of authentically Christian education in this country.

In a movement which appears almost Hegelian: the Government insisted on the compulsory promotion of sex-education to primary children; Archbishop McMahon and the CES warmly acquiesced; the other bishops remained dutifully silent; and within weeks the key teachers' union objected that changes were not going far enough, and successfully motioned for LGBT ideology to be firmly pushed on primary schoolers, and even toddlers!

Perhaps, none of us should ever be too surprised when the old Devil forces open a gap, which has first been voluntarily opened, in order to establish an even wider bridgehead. It is a warning to us all in the spiritual life.

In the battle for authentically Christian education, another inch of ground was conceded, and a country mile is now being taken from the Church and Catholic family life by the enemy of souls.

As we said back in March, Catholic parents and children deserved better than this from their bishops.

Please pray for parents, children and families in the UK as they struggle, without the help which it is their right to expect from their pastors, to protect and raise their children in the Catholic Faith.

Whilst the big-wigs at the CES continue to draw down their impressive salaries, it is no wonder that so many faithful Catholics are choosing to make big sacrifices in order to homeschool their own kids today.

May the Holy Family - Pray for us!

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