by Gilberte Côté-Mercier
Sex education should never be part of any course given in public, neither to children nor to adults. This sphere is exclusively private. The parents alone are authorized to tell about it to their children, at the moment they think fit to do so.
And the confessor, in the confessional, enlightens the conscience of everyone when problems of conscience arise. In public, only the general principles of purity, of chastity, can be given. And as soon as there are at least two listeners, it is public. What can we say about such courses given in front of a mixed class of children?
Let us never forget that parents are the natural educators of their children. It was decided and done this way by God, the Author of nature. Parents have the natural competence and the supernatural grace of state for educating their children in the intimate spheres.
And sex is a sphere that should be kept strictly intimate. The Commandments of God command it. A society that displays sex, as ours is doing nowadays, is doomed to decay, barbarism, and slavery.
Children and teenagers who have been initiated into sex, lose their mental balance, and they act like madmen. A great miracle is required for them to regain their equilibrium once they are adults.
In the past, the very word sex did not appear in our vocabulary. It was used, but in very rare occasions and very privately. This word should be banished from children's conversations. All the more reason for this word to be banished from our schools.
Sexology should never be taught in the schools. It is an unparalleled crime. Our Lord said in the Gospel: "Woe to him who scandalizes one of these little ones. Better for him if he were never born."
To give courses on sex to children is sadism, lascivious cruelty. These teachers of lust torture the soul and body of the defenseless and innocent children: this is cruelty. And are these teachers themselves able to escape from impure thoughts, desires, and acts? Moreover, they do not want to avoid lust, since their objectives precisely carnal pleasure for the little ones. It is essentially lasciviousness. Lascivious cruelty, which is accepted by some Catholics listening to Masonic and revolutionary propaganda. Never has any Pope in the Church condoned courses on sex, neither to children nor to adults.
It is absolutely unpardonable on the part of the Department of Education to include the teaching of sex in the program of our schools. All those courses, all those films, all those television programs, all those textbooks - even books on catechesis - which tell about sex, should immediately be cancelled.
And even though the parents give their permission for sex instruction, this instruction remains scandalous and illegitimate. I would not have the right to assassinate my teacher with my father's permission. Well, the teacher has not the right to kill, to injure the children's souls with their parents' permission.
All the parents who love their children must be firm to impose their will on this point, in order to free their children from those unwholesome, shameful, licentious courses. It is purity that children must be taught; one must make their hearts and minds soar always higher, not to drag them in the filth of false and carnal pleasures. Children must be taught to live a spiritual ideal. They must be formed to be pure according to the Commandments of God. They must be taught to avoid occasions of sin, and one ought not to throw them into these occasions and make them believe that they are able to face the evil presented by Satan, and thus overcome their passions.
And if the information on sex is given or promoted by teaching priests or nuns, it is all the more perverse, since it bears the signature of a holy Church whose face is now defiled by unworthy consecrated ones, just as the Holy Face of Our Lord was soiled with the spits of the impious.
We ask our Bishops to use all their power to protect our children against public sex education. It's urgent! Our children are going to Hell! It should not be with the blessings of the pastors of the flock.
Gilberte Côté-Mercier
"Sex education, which is a basic right and duty of parents, must always be carried out under their attentive guidance... The Church is firmly opposed to an often widespread form of imparting sex information dissociated from moral principles. That would merely be an introduction to the experience of pleasure and a stimulus leading to the loss of serenity, while still in the years of innocence, by opening the way to vice." Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio on the mission of the Christian family in the world, n. 37
Last Dec. 27, Poland's ex-Communist President Aleksander Knasniewski vetoed an amendment removing sex education from the school curricula. The amendment, passed on December 11 by the new Polish center-right government led by Solidarity, changed the law passed by the ex-Communists when they were in office, which mandates compulsory sex education in state schools.