PLEASE CONTACT YOUR STATE SENATOR TO OPPOSE SENATE BILL 1619 – VOTE EXPECTED IN APRIL!
SB 1619 deals with requiring all public schools that do sex education programs to follow certain requirements of curricula. We are familiar with these kinds of programs that promote abortion and homosexuality and condom training and other graphic subjects -- teaching 5-8 year olds about masturbation!! One curriculum we have seen states that the "morning after" pill is not an abortion when in fact Plan B and its types do have an abortifacient property by not only being a contraceptive but acting on the uterine wall to prevent the new human life [fertilized embryonic stage of life] from attaching to the wall -- thus it is a chemical abortion. How terrible to convince a pro-life girl that taking a "morning after" pill is not abortion!
This bill is on the Illinois Senate floor and can be voted on anytime in the next few weeks.
SB 1619 (STEANS) – Amends The School Code to require that public elementary and secondary education school classes that teach sex education shall "place substantial emphasis on both abstinence and contraception" Takes out the teaching of "abstinence until marriage" as the expected norm. Requires all course material and instruction to be "free from bias in accordance with the Illinois Human Rights Act."
SB 1619 would significantly alter how sex education in the public schools shall be taught!
LOCAL CONTROL DECISIONS BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SCHOOL BOARDS ARE REMOVED!
Currently, school districts and school boards that decide to teach sex education can choose what curriculum they feel is best for their students and community. A number of schools have chosen to teach sex education from an "abstinence education" perspective that does not go into graphic condom training and homosexual agenda instruction. SB 1619 states that schools choosing to do sex education programs MUST emphasize "contraception" in their programs. What would this mean? Several examples of the type of programs that schools MUST do were provided to legislators from proponents of SB 1619. These programs are strong on condom training, "what turns you on" and masturbation as well as that abortion is ok!
SB 1619 REQUIRES THAT SCHOOLS THAT DO SEX EDUCATION MUST INCLUDE THE HOMOSEXUAL
LIFESTYLES
SB 1619 clearly states that "Course material and instruction shall be free from bias in accordance with the Illinois Human Rights Act." Sex education programs talk about boy and girl relationships within a "sexual" or "romantic" context. That must change in order to be "free from bias" since the Human Rights Act includes "sexual orientation" as a protected class of persons. So, all "course material and instruction" must talk about boy and boy romantic relationships or girl and girl romantic relationships or same-sex marriage/ civil unions in order to be "free from bias." To be "free from bias" instruction must also include the cross-dressers among other lifestyles as part of a sex education scenario. Promoting homosexual relationships is clearly part of SB 1619.
THE LONG-STANDING ILLINOIS POLICY THAT FOSTERS ABSTINENCE UNTIL MARRIAGE IS REMOVED
SB 1619 removes all references to instructing students in sex education and comprehensive health education programs [which even private and parochial schools are required to teach under the law – 105 ILCS 110/3] that "sexual abstinence until marriage" is to be taught. This has been the important bar that Illinois has set for its students for decades. Regardless of one's views, it is importance that students be given a clear message on not having sex until marriage. With this gone, what is the point of teaching "abstinence"? Are they to be taught abstinence until when? – until a certain grade? ; until "he says he cares?" Do our anti-drug programs teach that students should abstain from drugs until they are older or are mature enough? No! A clear message is not to do illicit drugs, regardless of what may actually be going on with youth.
ABORTIONS PROMOTED IN VARIOUS WAYS
Additionally, abortion is in effect promoted in these programs with information that "women" have a "right to abortion" to end a pregnancy and that "no one has the right to impose their values on others" and more. Also, Some curricula states that Plan B types of "morning after" pills are not abortion, when in fact Plan B works as an abortifacient and therefore IS abortion. This is especially deceitful to those who oppose abortion and would not what to have an abortion.
This is a particular agenda that requires your local schools to teach a homosexual agenda, graphic condom training and if it feels good training and more, and that abstinence until marriage is not a good public policy for Illinois.
There has been a national "worldview" battle going on for decades on what to teach in "sex education" and proponents of "anything goes" are well known to us. SB 1619 is part of that battle.
Please contact your state senator and urge him/her to vote NO on SB 1619 – protect our children and encourage our children to stand on strong moral values! Capitol Switchboard in Springfield at 217-782-2000
