uncomfortable subjects
I was in a discussion today where I observed a few things:
1. Someone referred to pro-life pregnancy support services as "anti-choice"
2. The idea of not having mandatory sex-ed for high school teens was considered backwards.
3. "Morality and hang-ups" were described as reasons that sexual and reproductive health does not get programming.
On the first: I don't think people who consider themselves "pro-choice" appreciate being called pro-death, anti-life or even pro-abortion. I'd like to see consideration extended to those of us who are pro-life by using the name we choose for ourselves. I wonder if she has any idea that not everyone in the room shares her perspecitve on the issue. Pro-choice people seem to think that everyone they know has to be pro-choice. I wonder if it's because of a very narrow stereotype that people hold of what a pro-life person looks like (old, crotchety and almost rabid).
On the second and third: Advocates of sexual education always see to see objections as people's being "right-wing" or having "hang-ups". They seem to miss that there is a question of values here, of parents not wanting their values undermined to their children. I don't know of any parent, of any particular value base, who would want any system to tell kids things that run counter to what parents are teaching their children at home. But there is an underlying judgement here - and I suppose that should not surprise me. But the hypocrisy of it bothers me - people who advocate being non-judgmental being obviously judgmental of a particular group.
1. Someone referred to pro-life pregnancy support services as "anti-choice"
2. The idea of not having mandatory sex-ed for high school teens was considered backwards.
3. "Morality and hang-ups" were described as reasons that sexual and reproductive health does not get programming.
On the first: I don't think people who consider themselves "pro-choice" appreciate being called pro-death, anti-life or even pro-abortion. I'd like to see consideration extended to those of us who are pro-life by using the name we choose for ourselves. I wonder if she has any idea that not everyone in the room shares her perspecitve on the issue. Pro-choice people seem to think that everyone they know has to be pro-choice. I wonder if it's because of a very narrow stereotype that people hold of what a pro-life person looks like (old, crotchety and almost rabid).
On the second and third: Advocates of sexual education always see to see objections as people's being "right-wing" or having "hang-ups". They seem to miss that there is a question of values here, of parents not wanting their values undermined to their children. I don't know of any parent, of any particular value base, who would want any system to tell kids things that run counter to what parents are teaching their children at home. But there is an underlying judgement here - and I suppose that should not surprise me. But the hypocrisy of it bothers me - people who advocate being non-judgmental being obviously judgmental of a particular group.


2 Comments:
rabid!
The last half of 1 John 3:1 answers a lot of comments that you are making
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