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June/July 2002

Kader Asmal goes ahead with inappropriate sex education in schools. Inordinate funding of LoveLife.

Dear Friends,

In April 2002 United Christian Action (UCA) publicly registered their disappointment that, in spite of all the opposition from Christians in South Africa, Education Minister Kader Asmal had decided "to go ahead with the implementation of the controversial new National Curriculum Statement (NCS)," a revised version of Curriculum 2005. UCA said: "United Christian Action, its affiliates and many concerned South African parents find its moral base problematic. The licentious and immoral values underpinning the NCS make a mockery of the nation's calls for 'moral regeneration'." UCA is particularly objecting to the liberal sex education "which is at times pornographic in detail." 1)

This liberal sex education will be controlled by the Planned Parenthood Association and LoveLife who together won the tender for teacher training in schools and for the provision of all sex teaching aids. Only the Free State refused to accept their services. The Planned Parenthood Federation is an international body which promotes contraception and abortion. It has brought about drastic reductions in births worldwide. In Europe, for instance, the birth rate is now so low that it is feared that, due to lack of manpower, present levels of industrialisation cannot be maintained in future. For Planned Parenthood sex education has become big business. The PPA is also said to have undertaken over 3 million abortions since 1977 and earned US$815 million from abortion procedures, $68 million in the year 2000 alone. In South Africa Planned Parenthood is headed by Dr Helen Rees, a British citizen, who is also involved in the AIDS-education group LoveLife, the Reproductive Rights Alliance (which fought to get abortion legalized in South Africa) and the Medicines Control Council. 2)

LoveLife is an AIDS-education group addressing young people. But its 'education' is sometimes so explicit that - as one Christian movement puts it, it "continues to spread its pornographic programmes among the youth of South Africa. They promote promiscuity (fun sex) under the guise of fighting AIDS. They advocate that young girls get on with the business of fornication and abortion without getting the parents involved. Their programme is sickening to view!" This LoveLife is to " receive R600 million (US$60m) over the next 5 years from the new Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. LoveLife is fully supported by the South African Government which itself seems to have a death wish so far as the youth are concerned. They are also financed, on a major level, by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Bill and Belinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF and USAID." 3) The South African government is also setting aside large sums. Its health budget for NGO funding for HIV/AIDS was increased from R34 million to R157 million. The spending of this money is to be co-controlled by LoveLife and its backer, the American Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation. Indeed, Planned Parenthood and LoveLife will have a powerful moral influence on the lives of young South Africans! 4) LoveLife's Advisory Board, chaired by First Lady, Mrs Zanele Mbeki, includes King Goodwill Zwelithini, SABC's Tim Modise and the Most Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, Archbishop of Cape Town.

One outspoken opponent of the Government's "inappropriate sex education" has been the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP). Mrs Cheryllyn Dudley M.P. asked Mr Kader Asmal, Minister of Education, whether he had considered its "detrimental effect, especially in light of statistics which show that one third of abuse is perpetrated by school teachers. Deviant behaviour and sexual experimentation is in fact being encouraged through Lifeskills manuals," she said. These manuals "promote homosexual and lesbian relationships, abortion and contraception and give explicit instruction in oral sex, orgasm, intercourse, and masturbation." 4) Will such 'lifeskills' stem the rising tide of abuse of school girls by their teachers or the frequent abandonment of newborn babies?

Why such a programme? one might ask. Why such enormous funding? This campaign is surely part of the ongoing "liberation struggle," and its aim is to liberate the new generation from the authority of God. In his book "The Politics of Pornography", the U.S. theologian Rousas Rushdoony writes: "The new pornography… is a crusade for a new freedom and an all-out war against God and His law… The Marquis de Sade's thesis was that the Christian God… should be murdered and His law-order destroyed." (pp 9 & 10) The Marquis, of course, was the father of 'Sadism'. - In the same spirit the Humanist Manifesto II (of 1973) lays down that the 'chief end of man' should no longer be 'to glorify God', but to claim 'maximum individual autonomy.' This should include a 'right to birth control, abortion and divorce,' and any kind of sexual behaviour. The education, then, which our children are to receive is designed to wipe the love of God and the respect for one another from their hearts and minds. It will make them rebel against their Maker who says: "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body." (1 Cor. 6:18)

There is a connection between the sexual revolution which is designed to destroy the traditional family, and the theological revolution which is designed to destroy the Biblical Faith. JD Unwin's classic study, "Sex and Culture," (1934) has shown that any advanced society that permits premarital sexual promiscuity will degenerate into a backward society of the lowest cultural level within three generations. Conversely, a puritan society rises to new heights. 5) Or to quote Rushdoony again (p.14): "Whenever a culture is expansive, it delights in itself and faces other societies imperialistically confident that it is the bearer of light to other men. This imperialism may not be at all military; it can be cultural, educational, religious, or philosophical. The expansive culture is assured that it has attained maturity and that it has something to give to other men." - When, however, a culture becomes rebellious and enters into revolution (as happened before the French Revolution), there is an idealisation of the noble savage. Primitive man is seen as being beyond the law, outside of morality, religion and responsibility. He seeks salvation not in God, but puts his hope into a 'revitalising chaos.' - But outside of law, morality, and religion there is only darkness, sin and guilt. Life beyond good and evil is dirty, polluted, and defiled. Societies which allow such lifestyles are drained of their social energies and have no resistance against slavery and tyranny which are sure to come.

A particularly guilt ridden kind of existence is homosexuality. People who "exchange the truth of God for a lie" inevitably fall victim to "shameful lusts." St Paul says: "Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perver-sion." (Romans 1:25-27) The 'New South Africa' is the only country in the world which grants special rights and protection to homosexuals - not only in the Constitution but also through the Promotion of Equality Act and the Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (of 2000). - The homosexual lifestyle is thus not only declared acceptable in society, but it is to be promoted also in South African schools through the Lifeskills manuals. Indeed, militant homo-sexuals are looking forward to accessing scholars, students and youth club members.
In a "Draft Lesbian and Gay Rights Charter" they demand that:
· "Positive education about gender and sexuality, including sexual orientation and homosexuality/ lesbianism, shall be included in the curricula of schools, all tertiary institutions and youth/community programmes.
· This shall include the combating of prejudice and the presenting of lesbian/gay relationships and lifestyles as a valid expression of sexuality.
· It shall be unlawful to teach negative and homophobic attitudes…
· Teachers and counselors should be suitably trained… to provide positive education on… sexuality.
· Lesbian/gay organizations shall have access to schools… (etc) to provide such education." 6)
Homosexuals, then, want to teach, counsel and support new recruits "even if this is opposed to their parents."

Minister Asmal "recently said parents and educators would have the right to refuse any Lifeskills materials they found offensive. However while these words were being uttered the Education Laws Amendment Bill was being drafted on his instruction, giving the Minister powers to make decisions in schools without consulting school governing bodies and authorising him to set the curriculum and assessment tools for public and private schools." 7)

It is therefore important that all parents find out what their children's school is teaching on sex (if anything) and encourage them to move to abstinence based purity education, e.g. as provided by Dr James Dobson of the Christian "Focus on the Family". Otherwise they should withdraw their children from these classes. Pastors should also preach on why parents need to take responsibility for their children's lifeskills education. The parents are mandated by God to teach and protect their children both physically and spiritually. It is they who, at Baptism, pledged to "bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." (Ephesians 6:4) God gives them His commandments. "Be careful to obey," says the Bible, "so that it may go well with you… just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you… Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." (Deuteronomy 6) To be parents is not an easy task. It is a God-given responsibility. But with His help we can do it, for "God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7)

May God bless you richly
D. Scarborough.

Footnotes:
1. United Christian Action (comprising Gospel Defence League, Frontline Fellowship, Africa Christian Action, Signposts Publications, Christians for Truth, the independent African Churches' Community for Jesus, Aida Parker's Newsletter and others) Statement, 18 April 2002. (e-mail: acaction@yahoogroups.com) 2. The Pro-Life movement encourages Christian morality and opposes abortion. - Pro-Life Update No. 45, 18.4.2002, Abortion is Big Business for Planned Parenthood. 3. Pro-Life Update No. 47, 20.5.2002, "LoveLife" South Africa; cit. Cape Times, 6.5.02, "Global fund's R600m boost for LoveLife clinic plan." 4. Cheryllyn Dudley, M.P., Hearings on Sexual Abuse of Children. For more information, phone ACDP Media Liaison Liza Bloemetje at 082 478 1037. 5. JD Unwin, "Sex and Culture," 1934, Oxford University Press, cit. in "The Sexual Revolution: The Triumph of the State upon the Ruins of the Family," by CJ Williams, 1992. 6. Organisation for Lesbian and Gay Action (OLGA), Draft Lesbian and Gay Rights Charter, cit. in "The Pink Agenda," by Christine McCafferty and Peter Hammond, Christian Liberty Books, Cape Town, 2001 (P O Box 358, Howard Place, 7450) 7. Philip Rosenthal, United Christian Action, quoting Cheryllyn Dudley, MP, 20.5.2002.