BARBWIRE/ Joy Overbeck-
Remember when sex ed in high school was a short film starring a T-shaped egg highway and a V- shaped bedroom where a sperm and an egg got friendly? That was a long time ago, before sex ed classes showed teens the proper placement of a condom on a banana. Today, there’s a new flavor of sex ed called “comprehensive.”
In Colorado where Democrats now rule the legislature, HB19-1320mandates that new “comprehensive sex ed” classes must include “the relational or sexual experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individuals.” So will classes include videos (in yesteryear known as pornography) on how lesbians and homosexuals have sex? Will kids be taken on field trips to parks where gay men hook up, or to gay bars? These, after all, are “relational” and “sexual” experiences of the LGBTQ community. Is anything forbidden? Well yes. The bill forbids teaching “gender norms or gender stereotypes” – that is, the one man/one woman heterosexuality embraced by about 95 percent of Americans, to the horror of the LGBT lobby. Continue reading…
