I stand alone, will you stand with me?
What's wrong with today's sex education?
...my confessions of sin, given painfully, to prove the harm
by Jennifer Shroder
"FREEDOM
OF SPEECH" the porn pushers cry for protection to churn out the
corrupting stench of child molest and abuse, and the nation listens.
And if I say the name of Jesus Christ, I'm metaphorically stoned.
"INTOLERANT CHRISTIAN!!!" I stand accused. What have I done but
expressed my desire for my religious freedom, to raise my children to
know the God that I know?
Did I try to force my beliefs on others? No. Did I do ANYTHING to harm
anyone? No. I only plead to raise my children as I see fit. To
restore to this nation the religious freedom that belongs to its people.
Parents should have the RIGHT to opt out our children of classes that
scorn our beliefs and promote atheism. California public schools
continually attempt to weaken my son's faith. For standing up to that, I
have been called names, the fervent heat of the hatred, the attacks, the
mocking, the perverse analogies of what they would like to see done to
me, and at the same time accuse ME of intolerance?
Public schools insist they know better than I do what to teach my
children. Parents of faith are treated as buffoons that don't know
anything and are incapable of parenting.
Let me tell you what I learned in public school. I learned about birth
control. I learned where the "family planning" clinic was, right next to
the high school. My friends and I thought it was so cool to be there
without parents, treated as an adult by the smiling nurses, eager to
give us diaphragms or a wide assortment of various birth controls.
It was carefully explained to us that no method of birth control was
100% foolproof. The common thought was if we got pregnant, we'd just
have an abortion . It was just another way of being "grown-up" and it
all seemed so pleasant. Planned Parenthood takes advantage of a girl's
desire to feel independent. The first time out of my mother's
grasp, it's so unfortunate I was then in the hands of an entity like
Planned Parenthood, feeling so encouraged to be "on my own" at a
doctor's office for the first time. Everyone was so nice and
understanding. That's
what they were paid to be. Receiving money to contribute to the
corruption of my young friends and I. Sick.
By the time I got pregnant, all of my many friends had already had at
least one abortion. I was surprised to find I couldn't abort. Something
deep within me said, "no way." It didn't take courage, it was just out
of the question. The baby's father, and every single friend I had, made
it their personal crusade to convince me to abort. I realized that by my
saying "no" their guilt racked them.
When I started to show, the pressure became too intense. So I gave away my collie (that almost killed me), sold my car and
everything I owned and bought a one-way bus ticket out of town. From So.
California to Arcata, not knowing anyone there, a place I'd never been
before.
There was a two-hour layover in Crescent City and the bus stop was
unexpectedly locked up and deserted. It was pouring rain out in the middle of nowhere with no
shelter, not even an overlay of a rooftop. I sat on the curb, literally
in a gutter, soaking,
pregnant, alone, weeping. It couldn't get any worse than this.
Where were the smiling nurses now? Where were the sex education teachers
that referred me to them? Who was there to comfort me in my desperation?
There was only One, even though I had a new age attitude about Him back
then, He was there, and He heard me. He cared, and I went on.
Today I am a born again Christian and I praise God every day for my two
precious sons as I watch them fall asleep. God took my sin and worked it
for good. I have scores of girlfriends who never married, are over 40,
Prince Charming never came and now they grieve the loss of their aborted
children. Some have died of broken dreams, sexual disease and
alcoholism. None of us realized the consequences of sitting in the
waiting room of the free clinic, giddy with laughter and thrilled at
being so "grown-up."
Now this same public school system wants to teach my kids that
homosexuality is "okay." What it is and how it's an acceptable choice.
Is there a doctor alive that will testify that anal intercourse is
healthy??? I
can opt my child out but does anyone want their kids in the high school
gym shower with other kids who are being taught homosexuality is an
option? Do educrats really think they don't make an impact on our kids
as they teach them this stuff? How lives would be changed if they would
take our children to talk to dying AIDS victims rather than hand them
condoms! By the way, we never used them. We thought it was really funny
to blow them up as balloons and leave them in the backseat of our
boyfriend's cars. That would be an appropriate childlike response,
because we were children!! But we did pick up on the idea
that educated authority figures thought sex at our age was totally
appropriate.
I object to so much that public schools teach our children today. I
strongly resent the attitude of the educrats, that parents are not able to
teach their children morals and values, therefore the school must step
in. It was the morals and the values of the public school system that
got me in so much trouble in the first place! Yes, I was the one who
made the choice to be sexually active, but I was a CHILD. And public
school made it seem so acceptable, understandable and expected. Of
course, the family planning clinic had a solution. They would have been
so helpful, holding my hand, smiling that understanding smile, as they
would have aborted my children if I'd have allowed them to.
But I didn't. And now my children are in the same school system. School
professionals feel it is their right and privilege to teach my children THEIR
way of thinking and to question mine. I have paid the price of listening
to the schools, I don't want my children to go through that pain. Was
the school board there with me weeping in the pouring rain, alone,
frightened, fighting everyone and everything to have my children? Were
they there to rock my infant sons all night when they were ill or fussy?
Every time our children hurt, we are there. Every time they are hungry
or frightened in the night, we are there. We love them, pray for them,
pay for them, worry about them, sacrifice our lives and careers for
them. What gives the schools the right to take away our parental rights?
Who are the school officials to tell me that my son MUST know other gods? To ask my
children to participate in other religious activities? To learn
homosexuality? To read books of sorcery? To learn evolution which has
not ONE thread of proof to it? What kind of religious freedom do I have
if teachers insist on teaching other faiths to the point of
participation and imagination? "Here is the god, this is how they
worship him. Now imagine you're in worship to him, and write what's good
about it." COME ON!
If I had obeyed my Lord and Savior rather than listen to the school
advise me on birth control, I would have saved myself so much pain.
EVERYTHING God commands us not to do, He tells us for our own good. He
doesn't want to see us suffer. It was not God's desire to see me
destitute in the pouring rain, or the weeping of my friends over their
aborted children. God picks up the pieces that are left behind by the
educrats, with all their degrees and honorary titles. They dare to
inflict their twisted values on our children. What I truly can't
understand, though, is why do we, as Christians, say okay? Our silence
is an affirmative answer. I can tolerate so much from other people but
when they try to teach that to my kids, beware! But why am I the only
one at the school board meetings objecting? Why can't I get the pastors
to come out and protect their flocks? Why won't the religious leaders
stir up the saints to protect our children? Why?
Pray, saints, please pray. I know much is because we feel we can't do
anything about it alone. Please pray God would move this mountain, unite
us and restore this nation. -JenT
see also "How God Changed
My Life" -my testimony
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