Posted by Christopher Mc on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Under: Education
“Abstinence in itself is not a bad thing,” says Breedagh Hughes, of the Royal College of Midwives according to a story in the Irish Times today.
Why are these people so opposed to the notion that it might be a good idea for fifteen year olds to not have sex? Are they afraid of lost contraceptive sales? Is it a judgement on their own past behaviour?
Audrey Simpson, the rather nasty director of the Northern Ireland Family Planning Association, sees a value in a school's ethos - so she says, but it is very hard to see what the value is. She opines:
“the ethos of the school is important but schools must ensure that their RSE programme is respectful and sensitive to those pupils, teachers and parents who are gay, who choose to have sex outside marriage using various methods of contraception to avoid pregnancy or getting an STI, or who will for very personal reasons choose at some point in their lives to end a pregnancy.”
So a Catholic school must support homosexuality, fornication, adultery, contraception and abortion. Not really seeing the importance of the ethos there, Audrey.
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