Principle #4: The Family is Sacred

Van Jones could qualify as one of the biggest threats to our way of life in America today.  He has indeed dropped the radical pose for the radical ends.  In this video he tells a group of young adults that there is no basis for them to respect their elders anymore.  In his view they are like God with their vast stores of knowledge….no need to listen to or respect their parents or their elders.

This is quite reminiscent Al Gore’s comments to a group of middle school kids when he told them that they “know things their parents don’t know.”  This was said to a group of 12 year old kids!

The Progressive’s use of youth to promote their agenda is getting bolder with each passing day. Parents need to educate themselves with this agenda and they steps that are being taken to basically usurp parental rights on a global scale.

Consider the following:
NEA to UN: More Graphic Sex-Ed Needed
Perhaps you thought public school sex education programs are graphic enough as it is. Not so, according to a statement by the National Education Association’s (NEA) Diane Schneider to a U.N. panel last week. According to a report by C-FAM, Schneider told the audience at a panel on combating homophobia and transphobia that “[o]ral sex, masturbation and orgasms need to be taught in education,” and that anyone opposing homosexuality is “stuck in a binary box that religion and family create.”

I want you to let that last part of that last sentence really sink in:  ..“stuck in a binary box that religion and family create.” In other words, religion and the family unit present obstacles to the furtherance of their agenda.  Schools need to combat your influence on your own children.  They see it as “indoctrination” and they want to see to it that you can’t raise your children with the values, morals, and principles that your belief system and world view prescribes.

I strongly suggest that you visit parentalrights.org and read their proposed amendment to the United States Constitution:
SECTION 1
The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right.
SECTION 2
Neither the United States nor any state shall infringe upon this right without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served.
SECTION 3
No treaty may be adopted nor shall any source of international law be employed to supersede, modify, interpret, or apply to the rights guaranteed by this article.

If you think this amendment is not necessary please also consider one of the other issues discussed at this site:

High Court Finds Christian Parents Unsuitable
The United Kingdom’s High Court ruled yesterday that Christians with traditional ethical views of sexuality are not suitable to serve as foster or adoptive parents. The judge held that Christian beliefs regarding homosexuality are harmful to children and violate a child’s international human rights. (emphasis mine)

You may also want to familiarize yourself with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  This is not a conspiracy theory it is real and it is something every American parent needs to know about.

Principle #4 of the 9-12 Project states:

1. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
   Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson

I say AMEN to that!


UPDATE March 10th:  Christian parents jailed in Germany for objecting to sexuality curriculum.

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• Sex education is about a lot more than the mechanics (guardian.co.uk)

(NOTE:  In response to the third article link above I refer you to the information I presented in an earlier post:  Textbooks, Truth, and World View.  The information on Mary Calderone near the end of the post will be especially enlightening.

Textbooks, Truth & World View

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There have been quite a few stories recently regarding concerns about what our children are learning in our public schools.  The revision and/or presentation of history in a manner that leaves out important pieces of information has been a concern for some time.  Recently the concerns have been about how Islam and Christianity are being presented. Salon.com has a response presented from the other side of the argument.  Fox News airs a special report today "Do you know what textbooks your children are really reading?"

I've also come across an interesting article on Chinese textbooks and their approach to teaching about the Korean War that is worth reading.  In fact, this gentleman has quite a few articles worth reading.  In one of them, "Victims: History, Perception, and the East West Divide" he shares the following from a Chinese blogger:  "...this sense of being bullied from the west is rooted in the control of public opinion in China, the obstruction of the free flow if ideas, and students who from a young age are instilled with the notion of 'Westerners bullying Chinese people."  It seems this is not just an American problem.

The title link takes you to an article discussing the International Baccalaureate Program in some of our High Schools.  If you read the linked article above and visit their website you can get a range of opinions on the program.  When looking into this program I did a search and found that the world view at the core of this program is not one that I agree with....but I had to look closely because it "sounds so wonderful."

Before you jump to the conclusion that I just want to teach our schoolchildren another biased view of history please stay in your seat.  I have to be honest, I always had a sense of uneasiness with the concept of Manifest Destiny even when I first heard about it in school.  As I said in an earlier post, I believe we should learn the good, the bad and even the ugly to truly learn from history. 

Why does any of this matter?
Because those who possess much of the power and control over how and what our children learn seem to have a particular  world view, a Progressive world view.



If you take a quick tour of Progressive influences on our education system, I would suggest beginning with John Dewey.  In How Now Shall We Live, Charles Colson presents:  "Dewey rejected the traditional belief that an idea is an insight into an objective reality, to be judged by whether it is true or false.  Instead, he argued that ideas are merely hypotheses about what will get the results we want and their validity depends on whether they work." (page 93)  (Note:  I have a note I wrote on this page that says: Darwinists believe there is no transcendent truth, yet they believe that Darwinism is objectively true?")

Next consider the 1930's George S. Counts, who "called upon teachers to begin controlling the evolution of society.  He urged them to redeem society, to stop being merely transmitters of the culture and become creators of social values...reach deliberately for power to build a new social order." (Colson, page 335) His "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" can give you further details on his views.  His new social order involves our economic system "evolving into a collectivist pattern." 

Then you come to B.F. Skinner's Walden Two and behaviorism.  Skinner argues that "because the reality of consciousness or mental states cannot be observed, they cannot be described scientifically; therefore, they are not real.  Only observable, external behavior is real." (How Now Shall We Live, page 177)  This utopian thinking shifted education from the classical aim at the search for truth and training moral character to a new aim: "if human nature was nothing more than a reactive mechanism, then it could be manipulated and shaped by the laws science discovered.  Education became a means of conditioning, with the child treated as essentially passive rather than an active moral agent."(also page 177.) 

Then, consider Mary Calderone, former Executive Director of Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS.)  In a 1968 article she said: "the real question facing sex educators is this: 'what kind of person do we want to produce to take the place of human nature as we know it today, and how do we design the production line to create this advanced creature?"  and "..the best thing we can do for our children is to prepare them to view all notions of right and wrong as tentative, changing, and relative (emphasis mine).  Then, loosed from the old values, they can be inculcated with the values of a scientifically trained elite (consisting of professionals like herself, of course) who know what makes a human being truly healthy." (Colson, page 241 & 242)  This is interesting information in light of the recent Sex Ed controversy in Montana. 

Why does one's world view matter?  One more quote from How Now Shall We Live sums up my response to this:

"We easily forget that every private decision contributes to the moral and cultural climate in which we live, rippling out in ever widening circles--first in our personal lives, and then in the broader society.....every decision we make reflects our world view.  Every choice, every action, either expresses a false world view and thus contributes to a disordered and broken world, or expresses God's truth and helps build a world that reflects his created order."  (page 294)

Whether you believe in a supreme being or not, truth does exist.  A transcendent truth that is consistent with what we experience in the real world.  To re-phrase something C.S. Lewis said:  The theist, who believes in a transcendent source of truth and the materialist (Progressive for this discussion),who believes everything is relative,  hold different beliefs about the universe.  They cannot both be right.  The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe.

Finally, to all of this we add in the concept of the "useful lie" sometimes used by Progressives and the Muslim concept of "taquia"(or lying for the faith) and you have great difficulty "fact checking" and finding  the information that will lead you to truth.  I have faith, though, that we will get there with vigilance, perseverance and determination.  There is always hope. 

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