Letter to the Editor: Comprehensive Sex Education Bills Need to Be Rejected

SB 5495 and HB 2184 need to be rejected not reworked. Reading these bills is not going to tell you the impact on our children and grandchildren’s lives. Reading the curriculum and the agenda of the promoters of the bills might. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is one of the greatest assaults on the health and innocence of children in America. This is because unlike traditional sex education, CSE is highly explicit and promotes promiscuity and high-risk sexual behaviors to children as being healthy and normal. It is not the Washington State Legislature’s job to force indoctrination and social engineering on our children. CSE programs have an almost obsessive focus on teaching children how to obtain sexual pleasure in various ways. Yet, ironically, CSE programs are anything but comprehensive as they fail to teach children about all of the emotional, psychological and physical health risks of promiscuous sexual activity.  The ultimate goal of CSE is to change the sexual and gender norms of society, which is why CSE could be more accurately called “abortion, promiscuity, and LGBT rights education.” CSE is a “rights-based” approach to sex education and promotes sexual rights to children at the expense of their sexual health. It is strongly promoted by Planned Parenthood, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the UN’s World Health Organization. Some of the CSE material & curriculum can be found at https://www.comprehensivesexualityeducation.org/cse-materials-index/  If/when these bills are implemented, your local school boards are the last buffer between this ridiculous and dangerous program and your children and grandchildren. Please contact them with your concerns. I hope and pray they are bold, decisive and up to the task. We must take our public education system back at the local level or follow the mandate of our extremely liberal State Government.”

Mike and Sherri Aust

Chehalis