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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 14:07:28 EDT
From:         MKLINE%VDH.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      New Age in Schools #6

Subject: New Age in Schools #6


    New Age Views in Public Schools - John Ankerberg Show. 09/20/92

    Part 6 ------------------------------------------------------------->

    John: Now why do these Values Clarifications classes go against the
values and beliefs of millions of Christian parents? Well my good
friends, Dr. Charles Stanley, and Dr. D. James Kennedy express the
beliefs of all Bible believing Christians.

    Charles: Well the Bible is very clear about sexual immorality. He
says, "This is the will of God that you abstain from sexual immorality."
There's no question about it. He didn't say anything about safe sex. He
said all sex, outside of marriage, is against His law. And then He says,
if we sin against Him, we injure ourselves. And one of the very deceitful
things that is going  on is, the implication that it's okay to have safe
sex, you're going to be alright, when God says very clearly "You sin
against Me, you injure yourself." He's clear about all sexual immorality,
and He's clear also about the fact I will suffer the consequences.

    James: I heard a minister recently make this very interesting
statement. He said "Your sex is not safe until it passes the bar of the
judgement of God." And in all of the discussion that we hear today, on
the media about "Safe Sex", so called, one subject which is never
mentioned at all is, "What does God have to say about all of this?" And
what He has to say, is very clear, and very unequivocal. He says, "No
adulterer, or fornicator, or perverted person has any inheritance in the
kingdom of God."

    Charles: My personal opinion is that much of the so called sex
education is a very subtle form of abuse to our children. They're being
abused legally in school listening to this, abused emotionally and
spiritually.

    John: Now there's another objection that all of us in America should
have concerning Values Clarification classes. And that is, research shows
that we cannot survive economically as a country if our children live our
their lives according to the values of these programs.

    Josh: There are those that constantly confront me with this message,
it's "Josh, you have no right to regulate the morality of someone else."
The church, the schools, the government, society has no right to
legislate morality when it comes to sex. And then they'll say something
like this, "What happens behind closed doors between two consenting
adults," and any 12 year old kid will tell you he's a consenting adult,
he's an adult, "What happens between two consenting adults behind closed
doors, the state, the government, the church, society, the culture, the
school, the university, has absolutely nothing to say about it."

    Now that sounds good, but IF THAT IS TRUE, then when they walk out
behind those closed doors, why do they demand MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS and
now BILLIONS of taxpayers PUBLIC dollars for AIDS research? For sexually
transmitted disease research? Why does Planned Parenthood ask for
MILLIONS of PUBLIC funds for abortion and condoms and everything else, IF
the government has no say so to what happens behind closed doors?

    I always thought "No taxation without representation." and the whole
culture is involved. Is it a private act between two individuals behind
closed doors? If it is then you have to explain away that I was able to
take all the different government figures and work out that for aid to
dependant children and things from teenage pregnancy, for sexually
transmitted disease expense of the government and taxpayers, for AIDS
expense research and the cost to society and everything else, IT'S
COSTING THE US TAXPAYER RIGHT ABOUT $73 MILLION A DAY! Our culture, our
economy cannot survive that, especially when you add the cost of drugs
onto it. Just drugs and sexually transmitted diseases can destroy this
economy. It's too much of a drain.

    John: Now the philosophy of Values Clarification if also affecting
how we study other world cultures. Almost all of today's global education
courses and classes embrace the assumptions of Values Clarification.

    Eric: Global education says that we are all one on this planet, and
we need to get along together. Yes it was fine that we had nations
starting 400 years ago, that we all separated into individual nation
states and so forth, but now we must move on to the global society where
we're all one, and eventually we may have to come under the United
Nations as out government. That's really what global education is all
about. And the way that Values Clarification or this situational ethics,
this relativism fits into all of this, is by saying that we are one
culture, and if you try to say that "I am right, and you are wrong." well
that's going to cause conflict, and that's not going to cause world
harmony. So the best way to have world harmony is to say "Well, you may
be right, and I may be wrong. I certainly can't believe that I'm right
too strongly, so we'll just kind of be ambiguous about it."

    The problem with this on a world scale if you looked at it on a
global education setting, is take like apartheid in South Africa, the
same thing, here's the hypocrisy of it all. The same people who are
saying that we can not impose our values on the world and no one can tell
if their culture is right are desperately trying to impose their
cultural value on South Africa.

    South Africa has practiced apartheid, and apartheid is abhorrent, I'm
totally against it, however they've practiced that for the last 300
years, making it a part of their culture, their custom. But we have no
problem saying "Change that. That's wrong. That's evil." And yet those
same people who are crying the loudest will turn right around and say
"Well, we can't say if we're right or wrong about our American culture."

    John: Now as a parent, what can you do if you discover that your
children are being taught the basic assumptions of Values Clarification
in their courses?

    Eric: Well fortunately, the educators don't speak with one voice on
this, and many school teachers personally want to enforce right and wrong
in the classroom because they have to deal with the discipline of their
kids every day. But they are working with programs that say everything is
relative. So you can go to the teacher and show them how that they can
teach right and wrong, and talk to the teacher. They want to support
right and wrong.

    Then you can change the program, there are many good programs, drug
and alcohol programs, sex education programs that are beginning to say,
"Hey, there are absolutes." There are character education programs now
that teach there is an absolute right and wrong when it comes to
morality, honesty, truth. For instance, in California, California law,
liberal old California, the law says that it is the duty of the teacher
to teach right and wrong, morality, truth, justice, temperance,
patriotism, and so forth. So investigate your own state laws and then get
administrators to enforce those codes so the teachers are teaching them
all things.

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    Next week's show to talk about programs that talk about programs
which submit students to hypnosis and psycho-theraputic mind altering
techniques.

Maks
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