SPUC's Safe at School organised a packed meeting entitled “Sex education as sexual sabotage”, co-hosted by the Working Party on the Sexualisation of Children under the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP for North-East Somerset, said that the meeting was “terrifically important. SPUC’s work is of overwhelming importance for our society.” He said that he has met with local parents worried about school-based sex education. Mr Rees-Mogg thanked everyone at the meeting for helping him to inform himself about the issue, which he is taking up with his local authority. High resolution image of Mr Rees-Mogg
Safe at School has been calling for parents to be given back this critical role in their children’s lives. Parents around the country are calling Safe at School for support in dealing with their children’s schools, which systematically sideline parents from any knowledge of or involvement in the sex education delivered in the classroom.
Emma Clarke, a Northampton mother of three, said that her son’s behaviour changed radically for the worse after he was exposed to sex education at school. Mrs Clarke, who also runs a charity for child sex abuse victims, said that sex education puts children in a vulnerable position because the material used is basically paedophilic.
Ruth Pond related her experience as a parent governor at a state school in Worksop, where she was kept in the dark about the use of Channel Four’s “Living and Growing” DVD. She was isolated by the school management when she objected to the video; she described the school as “hell-bent” on showing the pornographic material to children.
Participants in the meeting were united in their belief that programmes such as “Living and Growing” went beyond merely explaining the mechanics of sex but actually primed pre-pubescent children for sexual activity.
Members of a range of groups and institutions were present at the meeting, including:
- Anglican Mainstream (Dr Lisa Nolland)
- Imam Maulana Shahid Raza Khan (Muslim College in London; World Islamic Mission of Europe)
- SREIslamic (Yusuf Patel)
- Islamic Medical Association (Dr A. Majid Katme)
- Core Issues Trust
- Lydia Fellowship
- ACA (Against Child Abuse) (Belinda McKenzie)
- Family Education Trust (Norman Wells, Dr Trevor Stammers)
- Anscombe Bioethics Centre (Dr Helen Watt)
- St Mary's University College, London
- LIFE (Anne Scanlan)
- Catholic Women's League (CWL); World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations (WUCWO)
- Cost of Conscience
- Morality Forum
- Prayer for Parliament
- Women's Federation for World Peace
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