Sex education traumatises children and is part of an international movement to provide young people with contraceptives and abortions, an adviser to the Bishop of Shrewsbury has claimed.
Louise Kirk, a Catholic author who has written and lectured extensively on Catholic teaching around sex education, strongly condemned the Government’s decision this month to recommend introducing age-appropriate Sex and Relationship Education to primary school children.
The recommendation was part of a Select Committee report released this month that was broadly welcomed by the Catholic Education Service.
But in a blog for the socially conservative website Conservative Woman Ms Kirk, who was appointed a member the Diocese of Shrewsbury’s Commission for the New Evangelisation by its bishop, Mark Davies, said that sex education did not prevent teenage pregnancy.
Instead she said that teaching primary school children about sexual anatomy, a recommendation made by the Select Committee this month, was “traumatic”.
“I have met many a parent who is dumbfounded by what their children have been subjected to and feel cross and helpless at the result,” she said.
She portrayed “sex educationalists” as an organised lobbying group that united people around a cause such as teenage pregnancy, then claimed that sex education would prevent it.
She maintained: “There is no proof that teaching a child aged five to name its penis and the child next door’s vagina does anything to stop abuse or help a teenager take her Pill.”
Parents are the experts in educating their children about sex, she added.
“We have a publicly financed lobbying group who are paid to produce educational materials and paid again to provide the contraceptives and abortions to which our children are subject. UK sex educationalists are part of a hugely powerful international movement which is well entrenched both at the United Nations and in the European Union,” she argued.
However she praised the Select Committee for backing a parent’s right to withdraw their children from sex education classes, echoing the Catholic Education Service, which welcomed the Committee’s support for parents.
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