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Downey parents against Teen Talk storm school board - California Catholic Daily

Downey, California is largely a minority, working-class suburb of Los Angeles. Last year the school board overwhelmingly voted to bring in a “comprehensive sex ed” curriculum for the middle school and high school grades. This decision was largely to comply […]
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For months, the board members refused to address the subject. Several parents requested individual or group meetings with their board members, which is quite common. But none of the board members would even agree to meet with parents and talk about it.

But in the face of fierce and widespread resistance, the school board finally cancelled the program.
 
Well, it was not Los Angeles and the curriculum did not “promote” premarital sex and abortion. This is an inaccurate take on a questionable article.
 
There is a documentary on Pureflix about abortion and how these groups who go into public schools to do these sex ed talks are actually connected with planned parenthood. A woman in the documentary talked about how they go in there purposely promoting oral birth control because they know the teen girls are not attentive enough to take it regularly so they will most likely end up pregnant. So they will make money off of their birth control and than they will make money off of the abortions they will promote to the girls when they find out their pregnant. It was so sad.
 
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There are documentaries about aliens building the pyramids. A documentary doesn’t mean it’s true.
 
Planned Parenthood is privately funded through government grants but also does accept major health insurance for those with health coverage or with government provided health insurance. The company does receive a profit from the government and private insurances. And it also receives more money by government grants for abortions or those who pay out of pocket. Not to mention the selling of the aborted babies. I agree not every documentary is true but I could see a lot of truth behind what this lady was saying. But I also could be absolutely wrong.
 
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This is one of many reasons I homeschool my son.

I just take it as a “given”, that any public school will eventually indoctrinate, to a greater or lesser extent, on issues such as homosexuality, premarital sex, contraception, and abortion. We discuss moral and bio-ethical issues at great length in homeschool.

I will concede that SSA students, whether they act on their SSA or not (and I would hope they don’t), should not be bullied, called out using crude and unkind words for people with their affliction, or persecuted or discriminated against in any way.

Strangely enough, at my small Catholic high school in the 1970s, one of the upperclassmen was openly gay — he didn’t throw it in anyone’s face, but it was common knowledge — and he was popular, well-liked, and never received any bad treatment on account of it. Our high school was actually pretty liberal in many ways, and certainly very liberal for that part of the country. It was never an issue.

And as far as prom dates go, if I were running the school, there would be no “prom dates” — everyone would be encouraged to attend, to wear formal dress, with the girls coming in groups, and the boys coming either in groups or “stag” as they saw fit. That way, couples can pair off after they get there, if they wish, and no girl faces the disgrace of having to miss her prom because nobody asked her. As far as boy couples or girl couples “pairing off”, I wouldn’t condone it, but I would be mindful of the “Streisand effect” — just ignore it, the more attention you call to it, the worse matters become.
 
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And as far as prom dates go, if I were running the school, there would be no “prom dates” — everyone would be encouraged to attend, to wear formal dress, with the girls coming in groups, and the boys coming either in groups or “stag” as they saw fit.
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Is that reasonable in dealing with young adults? I mean, they are going off to be on their own in college (or in the military!) where they will experiment with all sorts of things – I would not relegate them to a ‘junior high’ sort of event.
 
Put simply, the CEO of Planned Parenthood is the devil himself.
 
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And as far as prom dates go, if I were running the school, there would be no “prom dates” — everyone would be encouraged to attend, to wear formal dress, with the girls coming in groups, and the boys coming either in groups or “stag” as they saw fit.
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Is that reasonable in dealing with young adults? I mean, they are going off to be on their own in college (or in the military!) where they will experiment with all sorts of things – I would not relegate them to a ‘junior high’ sort of event.
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Have you ever been a high school girl who didn’t get asked to the prom, and had to stay home while the more “popular” girls got asked? Go to school the next morning, or on Monday if it was on a weekend, and be “the one” who didn’t go?

Neither have I. (For one thing, I’m a guy.) I have to imagine that this would be one of the most hurtful things a high school girl could go through. Put yourself in her place. Let that soak in.

If you have single-sex groups meeting up at the prom, then everyone gets to go, and “not having a date” is no disgrace. I also have in mind, perhaps, of making the prom an “all-girls’ cotillion” of sorts, where everyone gets to “shine” equally, again, with no stigma of “not having a date”, and the young men are assembled as a group as well. This could also be a way to teach the young men valuable lessons in etiquette and chivalry — dance with all the girls, not just the most “popular” ones, and put your best foot forward. Create an environment where everybody can just enjoy everybody else’s company, where one’s best manners can be on display. If there are any “steady couples” (something I would really like to see discouraged at a high school level), they’ll eventually pair off, and everybody gets to have a nice time. It could even fuel new romances that didn’t exist before!

In a perfect world, schools of that age group should be single-sex anyway, and such proms, cotillions, and balls should be a joint effort of male and female schools. Pius XI warned of the errors and pitfalls of co-education in his encyclical Divini illius magistri (1929). Traditionally, even non-Catholic and secular institutions were often single-gender.
 
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As far as I know, Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit so them making money does not seem to be a big aim of the organization.
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There is a vast difference between your two statements. Making money by Planned Parenthood most definitely does need to be a big aim of the corporation, or they cease to exist.

You are conflating making money with making a profit - they are non-profit.
 
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n a perfect world, schools of that age group should be single-sex anyway, and such proms, cotillions, and balls should be a joint effort of male and female schools.
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Yours is a minority opinion and against modern trends.
 
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Go to school the next morning, or on Monday if it was on a weekend, and be “the one” who didn’t go?
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Yes. That was me.

It was a great life lesson.
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That’s a “life lesson” I think a lot of girls would gladly live without.
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n a perfect world, schools of that age group should be single-sex anyway, and such proms, cotillions, and balls should be a joint effort of male and female schools.
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Yours is a minority opinion and against modern trends.
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Thanks, I figured that out already.

I have many ideas that are “minority opinions” and are “against modern trends”. Doesn’t bother me a bit.

Many people — not just Catholics — see the merits of single-sex education, and it is returning as an option even in secular circles.
 
That seems to be personal opinion since the Bible tells us that God hates. We are also told to be perfect as God is perfect.
 
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That’s a “life lesson” I think a lot of girls would gladly live without.
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I’m sure. The flaw in your theory of a graduation dance is the presumption that everyone would go, or more specifically, that every student would attend a prom if a date were available. I’m not sure that is so.
 
In a perfect world, schools of that age group should be single-sex anyway, and such proms, cotillions, and balls should be a joint effort of male and female schools. Pius XI warned of the errors and pitfalls of co-education in his encyclical Divini illius magistri (1929). Traditionally, even non-Catholic and secular institutions were often single-gender.
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I agree with you completely. I, if am ever lucky enough to have a wife and children, would prefer Catholic school and especially Same-sex Catholic High School. If not available or if the trend of modernism grows with in the Catholic community, then Homeschool/Running Start would be the preferred way to go. I know in my youth I could have used a lot more focus on school and extracurriculars without the added pressure and distraction of girls. I can imagine it is similar for girls as well.
 
That seems to be personal opinion since the Bible tells us that God hates. We are also told to be perfect as God is perfect.
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While I understand what you are saying I think we need to be careful with “hate” here. God is all-loving, so it is impossible for him to hate in the sense that a human hates. God is however a just God and so justice against evil will look like “hate” in the human sense but ultimately is an act of justice. You probably meant this in your reply but I think it is good to be clear on that.

That being said the SPLC is an absolute joke so take anything they deem as “hateful” with a grain of salt.
 
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All well and good except the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. If I truly love something, how can I not hate things opposed to it?
 
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Amen! Do parents have any role to play in their children’s upbringing? And note that it is indeed intended to be an up-bringing, not the beginning of a down-fall.
 
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