I’d never heard of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) until today, but this reporting suggests that “SIECUS is quite possibly one of the most nefarious groups working in education in America today.”
[Aaron] Baer [with the Center for Christian Virtue] described the Sexuality Information and Education Council as “the primary ideological drivers behind the hyper-sexualization of kids” and “the gender ideology that’s being forced on children” as well as “promoting pro-abortion ideology to kids.”
He too stressed the Planned Parenthood connection, explaining that “Planned Parenthood produces their own curriculum, but they’re very much aligned” and that “SIECUS is kind of the ideological foundation for groups like Planned Parenthood.”
Never heard of them, but they gave Ohio an F on their latest “Detailed Insights on U.S. Sex Education Policies.” They grade state education policy regarding sexual wokeness (so it seems), which strikes me as a job that doesn’t need doing unless you have an agenda, and they do.
SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change has served as a leading national voice for sex education since 1964, asserting that sexuality is a fundamental part of being human, one worthy of dignity and respect.
Even a disinterested glance at sexual history since 1964 finds a darkening shadow. Broken families, fatherless children, the rise of welfare queens, generational dependency on other people’s money, crime, drugs, the decline of feminism into a coven of man-hating harpies, disconnection of sex and love, which has led to a disconnect from relationships, while bad ideas about sex proliferate, including grooming and genderbending, that lead to neutered, unfeeling drones who have discovered too late that the Right body they were promised is virtually incapable of intimacy and will never experience orgasm.
That’s my summary of the SEICUS’s good work.
You can see what your state’s score was here. New Hampshire got a C, which, as the title suggests, needs to be worse.
A few of SEICUS’ observation/complaints.
- New Hampshire has no statute regarding instruction on abstinence. However, the Health Education Curriculum Guidelines emphasize abstinence as the most effective prevention method.
- HIV/AIDS and STI instruction is required.
- New Hampshire has no regulation regarding medically accurate, age-appropriate, evidence-based, or inclusive sex education instruction.
- Curriculum is not required to include instruction on sexual orientation, gender identity, or consent. However, curriculum must include instruction on dating violence and date rape.
- Parents or guardians may remove their children from sex education instruction based on religious objections. This is called an “opt-out” policy.
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Not bad to start, but we can still do worse.
Some would argue that I’m being old-fashioned, but that’s hardly the case. I grew up in the sexual revolution, and I didn’t complain about it then. Few, if any, healthy young men were upset about a rise in young women empowered to embrace the pleasures of sex or the evolution and easy access to the means to prevent pregnancy.
And I had gay friends in high school (in the 70s). No one really cared because what mattered was what you said and did in public. In ‘polite’ society. Are you making, or will you make, positive contributions in the spaces we all share? And while the sexual revolution primarily destroyed families, women, ex-husbands, and children, that was something you could still come back from.
The gender grooming wrong body transgender agenda crap can be irreversibly destructive to the mind, body, and culture, and if getting a bad grade on public school sex ed means you’re walking away from that, I’m all for it.
Highlights from the Sexuality Information and Education Council’s own report lament how state laws “create a hostile environment where LGBTQIA+ students are stigmatized and/or excluded from sex education” and “stigmatize abortion in sex ed.”
There’s an added note about “Baby Olivia” laws showing medically accurate fetal development, which the group calls “stigmatizing.” Such a bill has been introduced in the Ohio Legislature.
Public schools do few things well (spending other people’s money is one), and most of what that buys fails to meet even minimum standards of competency. The solution isn’t more things and more money; it’s the opposite.
Sex ed is off the rails where it is permitted, and the SEICUS is an ideological arm of a partisan interest (Planned Parenthood) whose sexualization agenda converts other people’s kids into customers.
Normally, you’d expect the proglodytes to scream bloody murder over a multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate manipulating curriculum to its financial advantage. Maybe not when it shares not just your political agenda, but its profits, to keep Team Blue in elected office, no matter the cost to kids or America’s future.
New Hampshire isn’t as good as Ohio, but we’re on the proper path. And I have to admit that HIV/STD awareness has value, but I’d be fine with parents and guardians reclaiming the role of educator there and anywhere else they can manage.
States should be getting a sex ed grade because they shouldn’t be in that business, the same way they shouldn’t be in the medical or mental health business. Everything public ed touches goes to crap – including your kids.
