Private and Public: Sex and Religion / by kevin murray

In today's schools, the most important thing for our youth to learn, which is a sound moral structure, as well as the importance of understanding that they are spiritual beings created equally by a loving God, has been superseded by laws, rules and regulations, stipulating that no religion should be taught in our public schools, to which, by removing the validity of religion in student's lives, you lift the very moral foundation and code of human behavior when interacting with others, and replace it with secular means, which changes with the times.  On the other hand, while removing prayer, religion, and morals, America has replaced such with subjects such as sexual education, which, while important in its own right, never seems to ask the most pertinent question, which is why is something that is so private; sanctioned and discussed in public schools with impressionable students.

 

Today's world is upside down, especially when public figures which when being written or talk about, or too often labeled not by what they really are and what they really represent, which we can garner from their behavior, interactions, and accomplishments, but instead are tagged with being known far too often by their sexual orientation, or sexual openness or lack thereof, as if sex and all its accouterments, was somehow of actionable relevancy to their public persona.  On the other hand, their religious persuasion, especially in cases in which their faith means something very much to them is not discussed, as if a person's values and morals, had no public value, and when discussed by the press, far too often is done in a dismissive fashion.

 

Any country that makes it public policy to take religion and essentially banishes it from the public square, as if talking religion, faith, and morals, is somehow dirty and unworthy, and hence must be only expressed within a person's mind or in private with consenting others, is a country that is madly confused.  Even a cursory reading of history, of literature, of art, or of anything of real enlightenment, would indicate that it is man's search for God, of man's understanding of his obligation to other men, of man's understanding that no man is an island entire of itself, would indicate that nothing is of more importance than religion and its morals.

 

Sex is needed in order for the population to procreate, but sex can be accomplished with or without love, with our without commitment, with or without responsibility, with or without consent, with or without anything but pleasure being foremost in a person's mind, and so forth, therefore, the teaching of sexual education, without any moral guidance, without parental input and supervision, is of questionable value and of inimical value to students at a public school.

 

Fools shout from the rooftops that there should be a wall of separation between religion and the state, but a state without religion, is a state which has become for all essential purposes the religion and therefore a god, onto itself.  All religion has at its core, a belief in God, that this God is our Creator, and that our Creator is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.  Further, that the mission of man besides finding oneness with his Creator, is to see God in every person, and by so doing, the correct morality about how we should behave, and how we should interact, will be implicitly comprehended and acted upon.