The Progressive Sexual Agenda

According to the Progressive agenda, any form of sex should be taken as casually as eating a Big Mac. Consistent with this vision:

• A new sex education program says that consensual sex between 13-year-olds should be seen as normal, and describes masturbation and attempting to touch other children's genitals is "a safe and healthy sexual development" for children as young as five.

• For 13 to 17-year-olds, green behaviors include "obscenities and jokes within the current cultural norm," "having sexual or non-sexual relationships," "sexual activity including hugging, kissing, holding hands," and "consenting oral and/or penetrative sex with others of the same or opposite gender who are of similar age and developmental ability."

• The final safe option listed for this age group is "choosing not to be sexually active."

• In the newborn-to five-year-old age group the "traffic light tool" gives a green light to "playing with own genitals," "attempting to touch…other children's genitals," and "attempting to touch…breasts, bottoms or genitals of adults."

The welfare of children must have been the prime concern of these educators, yes? Surely, much research must have paved the way to such radical and progressive programs. Certainly, the experts would never subject children to influences that could possibly destabilize, confuse, and even destroy the children along with their familial relationships. It is totally unthinkable that they would have embarked on such a radical course without the support of years of testing the effects of such programs on children!

Sadly, the unthinkable has become highly thinkable in Western society. It is not that there aren’t voices of sanity:

• Dr. David Paton, a professor of industrial economics at Nottingham University and a leading expert in teenage pregnancy rates, has consistently warned that explicit sex education and easy availability of contraceptives, including the morning-after pill, has not led to a decrease in teen pregnancies or abortions, but has led to a staggering increase in STD's because of an increase in sexual activity in children.

• Paton told the education select committee that he has a "big issue" with the guidelines in the "tool" suggesting that sexual relations among 13-to-17-year-olds are a "safe and healthy development."

• "The advice is both misleading and potentially dangerous,” Paton said. "There’s an awful [lot] of evidence that early sexual activity is associated with all sorts of adverse outcomes – including early pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, but also mental health issues and adverse academic outcomes.”

What then drives this radical agenda to normalize all forms of sexuality, even among the youngest and most vulnerable? I think that the answer can be summed up in one word – projection.

We are morally wired to know right from wrong. This includes sexual behavior. Therefore, we feel guilty when we act wrongly sexually. However, it is easier to blame society for our guilt and shame than to blame ourselves. Therefore:

•  “It is society that is wrong. It is our puritanical beliefs that are the source of my inhibitions, sexual dysfunction, and porn-addiction shame and guilt. Society must therefore be changed!”

There is little consideration of the fact that, perhaps, we are constituted in such a way that we need to listen to our conscience for guidance. However, we reject this guidance in favor of an unfounded hope.