Can we get the government out of the sex-ed business?

Why can’t the public schools stick to reading, writing, and ’rithmetic and leave sex education to the parents? Cover basic human anatomy, but no “pregnancy prevention.” Not even abstinence.

Why would any parent, believer or unbeliever, want the government to teach their children how to use condoms, promote illicit sexual behavior, and inform them that they can destroy the unborn children that might result from this behavior? The government’s motto: Get them early and indoctrinate them while they’re young.

Taxpayers in Iowa are pushing back against a sex education program that includes children as young as 5. LifeNews.com reports that several years ago, parents in Shenandoah, Iowa, learned about the existence of such a class led by a Planned Parenthood employee, Jennifer Horner. According to Iowa Right to Life, Horner taught the class “using anatomically correct dolls and phallic devices to demonstrate sexual positions and condom use and also promote abortion.”

Parents put a stop to it. But parents in Stanton, Iowa, recently received notice about a sexual abuse class to be taught to students in kindergarten through the third grade. The person scheduled to instruct students was the same woman: Jennifer Horner.

In an email to LifeNews.com, Jenifer Bowen, executive director of Iowa Right to Life, wrote that the sexual abuse class “has indefinitely been postponed, as concerned parents continue to request that the Stanton school leadership stand against Planned Parenthood’s efforts to reach children” as young as 5.

And the Obama administration gave Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in Iowa $5 million for so-called teen pregnancy prevention programs. Parents don’t want this, yet the government pushes it. Can enough people rally to reduce the government’s size and influence, or is it too late? One thing that likely would have an impact: Christians and other concerned parents removing their children from these schools.

The government won’t stop trying to indoctrinate the young and undermine parental authority. Normalizing homosexuality and transgenderism is the new “civil rights” crusade. Even if all concerned parents remove their children from public schools and place them into private schools or teach them at home, the kids live in a culture permeated with permissive behavior.

Regardless, Christians should continue using all legal means to protect their children as much as they can. In the midst of this chaos and disorder, parents have a responsibility as primary teachers. But Christian parents are not alone.

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you,” Christ told His disciples. “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.”