Teaching Twos About Homosexuality
I receive regular newsletters from the Australian Prayer Network (ausprayernet.org.au), and was horrified to read this report in a recent mail from them:
A book that teaches children about lesbian mums getting pregnant using sperm donors is being pitched at kids as young as two. The publication, Where Did I Really Come From?, also features a drawing of two gay men holding a baby, in a chapter about surrogacy. The book, which includes descriptions of sexual intercourse, is being promoted as suitable to be read to two-year-old children. But angry family advocates claim the book targets children too young. “It devalues the traditional family unit and at the very least desensitises us,” Focus On The Family spokeswoman Deb Sorensen said.
A chapter on assisted conception, tells children: “Sometimes, a woman really wants to have a baby but she doesn’t want to have intercourse with a man. “Some women want to bring up a baby by themselves, or with another woman, so the baby gets two mums. “A woman may arrange for a doctor to get some sperm for her, or a special man she knows may give her some of his sperm.” The book was first penned in the early 1990s, but has been updated and relaunched by Learn to Include, which has published a range of books featuring child characters whose parents are gay.
Learn to Include’s website says the book’s “simple, non-judgmental explanations of sexual intercourse, assisted conception, pregnancy, birth, adoption and surrogacy are “suitable for 2-12 year olds”. Ms Sorensen said a two-year-old would probably not understand the content. She questioned the message it delivered, particularly in relation to same-sex parents. “Research shows consistently that children are much better off with a mum and a dad,” Ms Sorensen said.
Now let me say very clearly that I do not hate homosexuals, nor am I “homophobic” (a phobia is an irrational fear, and I most certainly do not fear homosexuals.) I do, however, take a Biblical stand on sexuality in general: that the only legitimate place for a sexual relationship is between a man and a woman within the sanctity of marriage. Anything else is outside of God’s purposes, and for a very good reason. God designed men and women to be complementary - both physically and emotionally. He designed the sexual relationship to be a beautiful expression of the love between a man and a woman, which would, in the right circumstances, result in the production of a new human life. He designed families to function best when led by a father and a mother working together. To promote anything else - whether homosexuality, intentional single parenthood, casual sexual encounters or whatever - is to rob people of the best that God planned for them. To indulge in a sexual relationship other than that sanctioned by God is sin. I make absolutely no apologies for that stand.
Apart from the question of homosexuality, however, this report causes an even deeper concern: that of the unnecessary sexualization of our children. Two year olds should not be having sexual messages rammed down their throats, not in any form. Neither should four, six, or eight year olds. As for “assisted conception” and “surrogacy” - it is the height of idiocy to expect a young child to grasp, or even be interested in, such concepts.
The homosexual lobby tries to tell us that 10% of the population is homosexual - a grossly exaggerated figure based on biased and poorly conducted research. Even if it were true, though, that means that 90% of the population is NOT. To attempt to indoctrinate children with the values of a tiny minority of the population by violating the innocence of their childhood is nothing short of child abuse.
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There is one God, and one mediator between God and people, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:51 Timothy 2:5
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5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,)in Whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form (Colossians 2:9Colossians 2:9
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9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,)and Whom God the Father has exalted to the highest place, giving Him the Name which is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11Philippians 2:9-11
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9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.)
