Is anyone shocked Catholics wouldn’t want to teach consent.
When the most powerful person in your organisation in this country gets convicted for paedophilia (never mind that he got off because the High Court decided the separation between triers of fact and triers of law is irrelevant), of course you wouldn’t want young people to know what consent means.
Oh, and also, leave it to Catholics to not know the difference between amoral and immoral. They keep saying it’s amoral as though that’s a bad thing. Amoral merely means it doesn’t interact with morals at all. It is completely neutral on the question of morality. It’s by definition not a bad thing, even if you subscribe to Catholic morals.
Also while we’re at it, how about you learn your own sources?
It is the long-held teaching of Christ that sexual activity is only legitimately expressed within the loving relationship between husband and wife
When? When did Jesus Christ say that? There are many passages you could point to in the bible that could be interpreted to forbid sex outside of marriage. But please, Mr Gaskin, show me when Jesus himself said it, if that’s what you’re going to be claiming.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Seems like a ridiculous take to me. Of course consent isn’t the only standard, it’s just the bare minimum standard that everyone should be taught across our society regardless of religion. If you want to add the views of your particular faith on top of that, as far as I understand there’s nothing stopping you, so what’s the problem here exactly?
zurohki@aussie.zone 11 months ago
The additional views of their faith are secrecy and shame, which aren’t really compatible with a frank discussion.
saltesc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sex Ed on religious schools is an odd thing on general. It can be seen as a passive encouragement to have sex before marriage. As far as the more conservative are concerned, the Bible has taught all that needs to be taught outside of family and that’s “worked” for all this time, so don’t change it.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 11 months ago
And thats why countries and regions with strong catholic sentiment tend to have the highest rates of teen pregnancy
CameronDev@programming.dev 11 months ago
Eh, I personally dont want additional standards being taught in publically funded class rooms. If the church wants to shame its members, they can do that in their own buildings on their own time.
I went to a christian school, but I went for an education, not an indoctrination. If I or my parents wanted the latter we would have to church.
On the upside, from my experience/anecdotal data point, my school did a fantastic job of taking in fairly faithful students and beating that out of them :D
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah I agree with you and I think there’s a lot to be said about if and what role publicly funded religious schools should play in society.
I think the priveliged position of these schools right now makes the original complaint here even more ridiculous.