Delaware Senators introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 156, a resolution to integrate national comprehensive sex education standards more fully into Delaware’s schools.
This sex ed is not simply an explanation of biology and relationships. Because of the worldview of the authors of these national standards, comprehensive sex ed is a gateway to full immersion in transgender ideology, and exposure to explanations of graphic sex acts in an effort to be “inclusive.”
Hundreds sent messages to their legislator, expressing strong opposition to sexualizing DE children in this way. We heard from legislators that your responses flooded their inboxes!
Then on the day that SCR 156 was scheduled to be heard in committee, an announcement was made at the beginning of the hearing that made our jaw drop.
At the last minute, the chair of the committee announced that SCR 156 would be removed from the agenda! 😮
This is a huge win. Your messages made an impact!
Our team put videos like this on social media, and it reached thousands.
If the resolution is not heard before June 30th, then it will be dead for this year. 🙌🏾
This issue is not over. The comprehensive sex ed resolution is another reminder of our legislature’s insatiable obsession with sex. Why is this the obsession, especially when recent data shows that only 41% of Delaware’s public schoolers through 8th grade are proficient in reading, and only 34% are proficient in math?
What, exactly, is the problem with comprehensive sex ed?
SCR 156 is specifically updating the Title 14 DE Health Education standards, which includes sex education standards. These updates are meant to be “comprehensive” – and that’s the key word.
You and I may think of sex ed as a robust education in the biology of reproduction, the mechanics of relationships, and strong communication skills. But modern sex ed is much more than this, because it is rooted in a specific worldview.
This worldview sees sex as an identity, rather than an action governed by moral standards. It assumes that individuals are defined by and compelled to act on any sexual urges they feel. It considers sex and gender to be governed by internal feelings and desires, rather than defined by biology and constrained by morality.
What does this mean?
1) To be truly “comprehensive,” modern sex ed must acknowledge every variation of sexual orientation and gender identity – every letter of the growing LGBTQAI2S+ acronym. To exclude any is to be discriminatory.
This is why the national standards for comprehensive sex education expose kindergarteners to gender identity. The elementary level curricula encourage the young students to look within themselves to determine their gender identity.
2) Because every identity in the acronym needs to be acknowledged, this means that every sex act needs to be explained. If sex is no longer the means of reproduction and intimacy within marriage, then every sex act is seen as equal, and to exclude any is to be discriminatory.
This is why the national sex education standards explain masturbation, sexual fantasies, and oral and anal sex in elementary school.
3) Because sex is seen as the core of a person’s identity, comprehensive sex ed teaches the rising generation that they are free to engage in any sexual acts, as long as it’s performed “safely,” and as long as there is consent.
There is no regard for the life that could result from sex. If pregnancy happens, high schoolers learn, then they have the right to kill their baby through abortion.
This is not sex education. This is indoctrination.
Read the standards here and here.
To understand this worldview better, here are two videos that explain 1) why sex is considered an identity instead of an action governed by biology and morality, and 2) what is in modern comprehensive sex education.
What is our response?
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
The tremendous social cost of the church’s silence is becoming increasingly clear.
Silence creates a vacuum. When God’s institution of transformation – the church – refuses to speak up on certain issues, the culture will fill in the void with it’s own message. This is exactly what has happened with sex ed.
But there is no reason for us to be silent on difficult or controversial issues. The Bible has everything we need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3). It’s a complete worldview – it gives us all of the principles and commands that we need for life.
So how do we respond?
1) Protect your children from comprehensive sex ed.
- Opt out. Graphic content or LGBTQ ideology is not only in sex ed. It’s in the library books, in guest speaker presentations, and AP literature classes, to name a few. Click here to know your rights as a parent and opt your child out of content you do not want them exposed to.
- Vote in the school board election. The school board has the most direct impact on the content in public schools. The school board election for this year is May 12th. Does your school district have an election? Click here to find out, and to get to know who is running for school board.
- Report an incident. It takes all of us to expose the indoctrination happening in our public schools. Attend the school board meetings. Be diligent to know what’s in your child’s curricula. And if you see something concerning, let us know. Report an incident here.
2) Teach healthy sexuality.
It’s not enough to simply push back – if we do not teach the next generation about healthy sexuality, we leave them vulnerable and unprotected in a perverted and sexually broken world. Here are curricula and other resources to teach a robust understanding of sexuality to the rising generation.
Healthy Sexuality: A Biblical Worldview
Biblical sexuality begins with what the Bible says about what it means to be human.
Humans are not merely animals driven by instinct. Humans are moral and relational beings, with innate dignity and worth. This is what it means to be created in God’s image.
Our bodies are not an accident, or an obstacle to be conquered. God designed our bodies as well as our souls, and He gave us the blueprint for how to function in this world in a way that is best conducive to our flourishing.
Sex is not a dirty word. It is a beautiful gift that God gave to be enjoyed by one man and one woman in a lifelong covenant with each other. Sex is the vehicle by which humankind fulfills the command to “be fruitful and multiply.” And on a spiritual level, it is a beautiful picture of the intimacy that Christ shares with His people for all eternity.
We have the responsibility to pass on a robust understanding of what it means to be human. This includes identity, community, and calling. It means understanding God’s original design, the distortion of that design because of sin, and the redemption that God brings out of brokenness. And yes, all of this will include a robust understanding of sex.
The early church was responsible for the first sexual revolution – the revolution that challenged the licentiousness, degradation of life, and demeaning of women in the pagan Roman empire. The early Christians rescued the baby girls the pagan Romans discarded, and in a culture of normalized sexual abuse of children, homosexuality, and rampant adultery, Christians preached a radical message that both men and women are held to the same sexual ethic – exclusive sex within the boundaries of marriage.
The faithfulness of these early Christians changed the pagan culture, and overtime, society was orchestrated around this biblical sexual ethic.
Our responsibility as Christians hasn’t changed. We are still called to be faithful, and to proclaim the beauty of God’s design in the midst of sexual brokenness.