Hidden Ideologies of Sex Education
Sex education is hardly innocent. Much of the material being taught to students is ideologically motivated and birthed from an inherently secular worldview. This ideology is often intentionally subversive to the values that parent’s have for their children, and parents are usually ignorant to what their children are being taught. On today’s program, Dr. Mohler interviews Dr. Miriam Grossman, author of You’re Teaching My Child What?, about the dangers of sex education in school curricula. The conversation is one that no parent will want to miss.
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Albert Mohler:
Hello America. Welcome to the Albert Mohler program. The issue of sex education is front and center in some of the hottest controversies in local school districts and communities and for good reason, you’re really getting down to the most important moral issues of our public and private lives. You’re really getting down to where parents are rightly most concerned that their children are going to be taught what is not what the parents would’ve taught. They’re going to be taught what is it variance with the morality that the parents are doing their very best to inculcate in their children, that they’re going to be taught well, things that will not lead to their health, but to their unhealth. That’s the instinct a lot of parents have, and the reality is this, the closer you look at most of the sex education curricula, the worse they appear, the more validated the concerns are clearly shown to be.
I’ve been involved in this coast to coast for several years. I’ve been a witness before legislative committees. I’ve been called in to consult with school districts and in so many different settings, met with parents to try to talk through these issues on this program. From time to time we come back to the issue of sex education because there really are few issues that are more urgently important for the parent’s attention right now. When you think about all the things we’re concerned about, lemme just tell you this one is rightly front and center because it gets to what the scripture from a Christian worldview perspective, what the scripture points to as a window directly into the soul. Let’s remember that the New Testament tells us that all sin is sin, but sin of a sexual nature is particularly dangerous. We sin against our own body and we sin against the creator’s.
Design for us his intention. We not only break his law, we not only fall short of his glory, but we bring injury into our lives and inevitably into the lives of others as well. One of the grave concerns parents have in this highly sexualized culture in society is how we protect our children, how we raise them to be persons of sexual integrity in a world that has gone mad in terms of the embrace of a sexual revolution, of moral relativism, and of a celebration of early and virtually unrestricted sexual behavior. If you think I’m exaggerating, here’s where I would simply tell you. If you need proof, follow the websites. Go to cus a major organization promoting sex education in America. Go to Planned Parenthood, go to the kinds of links you will find. If you look at the sites that are supposedly about the adolescent and child sex education or child and adolescent health, you’ll discover just the kind of thing that is being promoted there.
It’ll be shocking. You’ll see terms such as comprehensive sex education and you’ll come to understand that that’s really about a moral revolution. That’s not really about information. There’s information there, yes, but it is laden with an ideology of the sexual revolution and this is for good reason. You can do an autopsy on this entire movement. You can track it back to its source. You can go back to figures such as Alfred Kinsey and come to understand that there you had a person horribly confused and messed up, sexually given over to what can only be described as sexual perversions who used a false science in order to try to make a false point about the fluidity of human sexuality and about the promiscuity especially of males. And that’s just to be expected. And thus you find the argument, Hey, polls say surveys, say science tells us that, that basically people aren’t going to have sex, teenagers are going to have sex, so it’s just a matter of helping them to have safe sex.
But as my guest today on this program demonstrates it’s not safe. It’s not safe at all. Your first instinct is to think that’s a moral statement and it is. But my guest today is Dr. Miriam Grossman. She’s a child and adolescent psychiatrist. She’s a graduate of Brenmar College and New York University Medical School. She had a fellowship and child and adolescent psychiatry at Cornell University. She’s the author of the book, unprotected a Campus Psychiatrist, reveals How Political Correctness Endangers Every Student. She’s also the author of the new book that prompts our conversation today. That book is entitled, you’re Teaching My Child What a Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child. And lemme just give you a heads up, especially to those of you who are parents listening right now, I can think of a few issues that are more important for your consideration that consider this a briefing for you, that you’ll be better prepared to know what your child is going to be facing and what you’re now facing as a parent to prepare your child and to know what’s really going on in these sex education programs that are now so popular, not only in the public schools, that’s kind of ground zero for this discussion, but wherever this movement can reach children and adolescents, that’s all fair game and then young adults when they get to the college campus.
But I need to give you a heads up, this is just fair warning. We’re going to be talking about some of the issues that parents need to know about. And as a parent you may decide this is not what my children need to hear. And so that’s up to you. And as a matter of fact, the one thing I wanted to point to again and again is that that’s why God put you here to be the monitor, to be the gatekeeper, to be the authority for you to decide how, where, when and what in terms of the sex education off of your children. So lemme just give you a heads up when we come back. The interview with Dr. Miriam Grossman is going to be, I can guarantee you fascinating. It will also be troubling when you come to find out some of the things that are in and behind the sex education curricula, but it’s also hopeful because it points out that well, she will come again and again to demonstrate that the science really validates your parental concern that teenage sexuality is just wrong, not only wrong but unhealthy and dangerous and very injurious.
We’ll get to that conversation in just a moment. One issue in the news really caught my attention over the last 48 hours or so and it broke in different ways. First of all, the New York Times ran a front page story. Here’s the headline. China’s tough policy seems to slow swine flu. Very interesting. One of the points that is made in this article is that since China is an authoritarian government, well it can act in ways that are a bit more coercive than democratic governments in causing persons to have vaccinations in requiring persons to take certain behaviors, to move certain places, to evacuate certain areas because when it comes to the issue of public health as treated in the nation of China, a communist regime just as a matter of national security, and so here you have the New York Times celebrating, at least in part the fact that China’s tough policy seems to slow the spread of swine flu.
Now, we’re not really surprised by that, are we? I mean, we’re really talking about a nation here that is well, very well known for enforcing its decrees in its population. You look at that and say, well, there’s a positive effect. You can look back and say, well hey, if you’re trying to stop a virus, maybe an authoritarian government has certain advantages there. Well, of course it does. It gets back to the fact that many people observed a long time ago then. In a perfect world, having a benevolent monarch would be preferable to the messiness and the expense of democracy. If you always can know that you could put a monarch in power who would always rule wisely and rightly well, you wouldn’t need a democracy. The problem is we read Genesis three and in a sinful world, you can’t trust that kind of power, and that’s why democracy, as Winston Churchill said, is the worst form of government imaginable except for all the others.
It’s what you’re left with when you understand the importance of human liberty and the reality of human sinfulness. Well, you look at this article and the headline says it all, China’s tough policy seems to slow swine flu, but is it interesting that also running in many of the same newspapers that’ll be running that story as a syndicated story from the New York Times, there is now a great deal of evidence coming out of forced abortions, coerced abortions in China as part of its one child only policy. Kathleen Parker writing in her syndicated column says, while the Chinese Communist Party insists that abortions are voluntary under the nation’s one child policy, electronic documentation smuggled out of the country tells a very different story. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission heard testimony concerning this. Even as President Obama was headed for Asia, including China on an economic mission, it is now becoming clear.
Well, and to use the words of Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of the Frontiers Group, he told the Lantos Commission that China’s one child policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on Earth. Did you know that in China a mother has to have a birth permit and that if there is a quote out of plan pregnancy, the regime’s answer to that is very simple. To quote Kathleen Parker, a woman pregnant without permission has to surrender her unborn child to government enforcers no matter what the stage of fetal development. Now, this electronic data documentation smuggled out of China not only deals with the reality of course abortions, but with the fact that these abortions are sometimes not actually legally defined as abortions at all, but infanticide, there are children that were born without a permit who were placed in garbage cans.
Some of these trash cans survived for one or two days. Technically. Kathleen Parker writes, it’s illegal in China to kill a baby, but family planning imperatives sometimes prevail. Folks, when you’re thinking about how worldview impacts life, how government is actually a part of our responsibility as Christians to consider and understand, it’ll just think of these two headline stories. Number one, China’s tough policy seems to slow swine flu. In other words, well, there’s some who would argue from a public health perspective that this kind of autocratic government could have certain advantages. Then turn the page and consider the babies in the trash cans, the mothers coerced to have abortions. And there you see in the Genesis three world what autocracy really looks like. We’ll be back to talk about sex education and why it matters to you. As parents on the Albert Mohler program,
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Albert Mohler:
Welcome back to the Albert Mohler program. My guest today is Dr. Miriam Grossman, md. She’s a psychiatrist graduate of Bryn Ma College and the New York University medical school specialist in psychiatry in particular child and Adolescent psychiatry through Cornell University. She’s a regular speaker and writer. See the author of two very important books and parents, especially folks who work with young people, write these down, come to the website, get the links, find out where we are. The two books are unprotected. A campus psychiatrist reveals how Political Correctness engenders Every Student. That’s 2006. I read that book and I wanted to know who that author was writing with such credibility and cogency on the issue. The second book is Just Out. You’re Teaching My Child What a Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child Just released August, 2009 by Ary Publishing. You’ll find the links to both of those books on our website@albertMohler.com listed with today’s program. Also, you’ll want to go to Dr. Grossman’s website, which is indeed www miriam grossman md.com. Dr Grossman, welcome to the Albert Mohler program.
Miriam Grossman:
Great to be with you. Thanks for having me on.
Albert Mohler:
Now, your book is one of those volumes that comes out and to be honest, you are intending to shock and lemme tell you, the material you put in this book is indeed shocking.
Miriam Grossman:
Well, what I’m intending to do is simply to demonstrate what’s out there that’s put in front of our kids. I mean, I’m intending to shock, I guess you could say that, but more than that, I’m just intending for this material that’s already out there, this very tasteless, offensive material that’s out there already and directed at our kids, and I want parents to know about it.
Albert Mohler:
Yeah, well, it’s shocking because you make the point that what most parents think sex education is all about in the schools is actually not what sex education is about,
Miriam Grossman:
Right? Well, the flagship organizations of comprehensive sex ed want parents and policymakers to believe that they are mainstream, that they’re on the same page as parents that, but I, in my own research that I did about the material that they create for children and young adults discovered that they are none of those things. They have radical ideas. They want to influence our children so that they can be inculcated into a way of thinking that is most likely at odds to what their parents think. They’re not science-based and that this is about ideology and it’s not about health. That’s what the book is about.
Albert Mohler:
Yeah, this paragraph on page seven of your book reads Parents, if you believe that the goals of sexuality education are to prevent pregnancy and disease, you are being hoodwinked. You must understand that these curricular are rooted in an ideology that you probably don’t share. This ideology values above all, health science or parental authority. That means above all, above those things, health, science or parental authority, the one great good of sexual freedom, that’s what everything is pointed to here, not to Grossman. And in your book, you go back and you do an historical survey looking at groups like Ikas and Planned Parenthood and Advocates for Youth. And you come out really demonstrating that there’s an ideology of sex that’s going on here, a worldview of sex. It is presented as sex education, but later in your book you make the point that sexual activity among teenagers is not based upon a lack of information but a lack of judgment. So if you could just give parents kind of a heads up about what these sex education curricula are really all about, what would you tell them?
Miriam Grossman:
Okay, well, first of all, I think let’s begin with comprehensive sex educators claiming that they are on the same page as parents. 90% of parents want their kids to delay sexual behavior at least until adulthood and until they’re in some sort of relationship, long-term committed relationship. That’s the vast majority of parents. However, if you look for example, if you go on the CCUs website, which is S-I-E-C-U s.org and parents haven’t heard of, I never heard of this organization myself even as a medical physician until I began looking into this and why did I look into all this? Dr. Mohler is because I am a psychiatrist, as you mentioned for young people. And I had so many kids coming through my office, especially young women who were infected with sexually transmitted infections that I began to wonder what is going on here? What is the reason for this?
What are these kids being taught? Anyway, if you go onto the secas.org website, you’ll see that there’s a page there that’s meant specifically for young people. And the very first resource that kids are directed to is a pamphlet called All About Sex. Parents need to look into that pamphlet. It’s not long. You’ll see, in fact, in the first few pages what’s discussed is sexual rights. And what’s most important kids should know is that everyone has the right to decide when and with whom they would like to be sexually active and that it’s solely an individual choice and that no one can step in and tell a young person what to do and what not to do. So right from the beginning, you have Ikas, which is our nation’s, aside from Planned Parenthood, our nation’s most eminent group of sex educators, federally funded, and they are starting off telling kids that only they can decide and they have the right to decide on their own when they’re ready for sexual behavior. This is preposterous because we know from a medical point of view and a psychological point of view that it’s best for young people to delay sexual behavior. There’s no debate about that. That is a biological truth.
Albert Mohler:
Well, you make point very clearly in your book, and let me just insert here as a matter of clarification, that most of the listeners of this program are going to be very clear that they want their children actually to abstain and to refrain from sexual activity until marriage. But I think you rightly are putting it even in the context of how the sex educators talk about this just in terms of what they say their goals are. And as you’re pointing out what they say their goals are to parents are not what the curriculum represents when they actually talk to kids because it’s all about an ethic of liberation.
Miriam Grossman:
Absolutely.
Albert Mohler:
You make the point that it’s not only liberating to have sex, but the liberation from gender and all the rest,
Miriam Grossman:
Right? This is grounded just like a religion can be grounded in certain principles and certain doctrines that cannot be questioned. Sex education, modern sex education is also grounded in certain principles that there simply cannot be questioned. And one of those principles is that everyone has the right to decide what form of sexual expression is right for them. And this does not jive with a medical approach. This is an ideological approach. This has to do, as you said earlier, with a worldview, a way of seeing society, a way of changing society. And so these people do want to come in and to, they want to make sure that the kids coming out of their program, number one, have questioned the views that they have learned at home and at church. They want them to be open-minded, tolerant, and to view sexuality as a lifelong adventure.
Albert Mohler:
And when they talk about being open-minded and tolerant, what they’re really talking about is overthrowing parental expectations and instead buying into a worldview that says that sex, however it happens with whom it happens so long as while certain principles are followed such as consent and mutual respect, there’s nothing wrong. And so long as you’re both deriving pleasure from it. It’s just good. And that’s why it’s important to have this conversation. Very few parents know what is actually being taught here. We come back, we’re going to talk to Dr. Miriam Grossman about some of the medical aspects of this, that what you’re just not likely to hear anywhere else. You’re listening to the Albert Mohler program.
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Albert Mohler:
Welcome back to the Albert Mohler program. I’m holding the book in my hands. The title is You’re Teaching My Child What a Physician Exposes The Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child. The author is Miriam Grossman. She’s a psychiatrist specializing in Child and Adolescent psychiatry, the author of two books, the most recent one is the one I hold in my hand. The photograph on the front is of children school age, I don’t know, maybe fifth or sixth grade. And they’re lined up arms folded facing the front of the classroom. And you’re just looking to those faces. And once you read this book, you realize they’re being taught what their parents almost certainly do not want them taught, would never want them taught. And Dr. Grossman does a very good job in this book of really exposing the ideology behind the sex education movement. What gives Dr. Grossman a particular credibility in this is that she is a scientist, she is a medical practitioner, she’s a physician. And for instance, Dr. Grossman, you really go at the fact that boys and girls are different, that that’s a scientific fact. You make that point very clearly in your book, but those who are behind the sex education ideology really do not accept that.
Miriam Grossman:
Well, they will accept it only to a minimal degree and they’ll deny all the incredible science that we have, the cutting edge science from the past 10, 15 years that only underscores those differences. And I’ll tell you first of all, biologically a girl’s body, a teen girl is simply not ready to have a sexual relationship. And I go into this in more detail in the book and I have a diagram and I explain about the cervix being immature and so on, and people who are interested will go in there and read more about it. But the bottom line is that physically and emotionally, girls are more vulnerable to the negative consequences of early sexual behavior emotionally. There’s amazing information I have to tell you about this. There’s a hormone called oxytocin, and this is a hormone that we’ve actually known about for about a hundred years because it’s the hormone that is involved with labor and delivery and nursing.
But more recently we’ve discovered that this hormone is also involved with feelings of attachment, feelings of trust between two people, and that in addition to being released during labor and delivery and nursing is released during intimate behavior and kissing and intimate kind of touching. Now, the reason why this is so important is I’ve had so many girls come through my office who have been involved with boys intimately. They become attached to them and then they can’t understand what’s happened. They don’t understand. They have no grasp of the reality that the brain, especially the female brain, is designed in such a way that it releases chemicals during intimate behavior that promote feelings of attachment and promote feelings of trust. And what’s happening is that these girls are going out and hooking up and their sex education, of course, doesn’t share this information with them because they don’t want to highlight the differences between boys and girls as we said before.
And so the girls are going out and they’re becoming emotionally involved quite rapidly, and then they think there’s something wrong with them. So in addition to their being upset that the boy does not return, doesn’t have the same feelings and doesn’t want a real relationship with them, they also think on top of that, that there’s something wrong with them. And so I begin to explain to some of these girls, and even as old college girls, young women in graduate school, and I say, no, there is nothing wrong with you. You have to understand your biology. You have unique female biology. That aside from oxytocin, there’s also other things that I write about in the book. There are things going on under the surface that we are not conscious of and that sex educators are willfully. Well, look, they either are not up to date with what’s going on in the scientific world, or they are willfully ignoring it and omitting it from their curricula. Whatever the reason is, it’s inexcusable. Girls have incredible feeling of relief when they hear this because as they say to me, I say, oh, this is a relief. I thought it was going crazy. I thought there was something wrong with me. And so this is one example of
Albert Mohler:
Information, a very important example, and one of the reasons why I think your book is really important, and Dr. Gross, when we come back, I want to go at this particular issue a little bit more with a focus to what parents and others who work with young people and care about young people should really be thinking about when they understand how the differences between boys and girls really play into what can appear to be a real encouragement to early sexual behavior, things that parents might see as more innocuous. We’ll come right back with that. On the Albert Mohler program,
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Well, if you dare, you can go to the website yourself for C one of the major sex education advocacy organizations in the us. You can go to Planned Parenthood and you can go to these sites. So one of them I know is conducted by Columbia University, the Student health program. You can look at this stuff and you can see how all these links are really driven by a very clear ideology when it comes to sex education, an ideology that would be shocking to parents, an ideology that is intentionally subversive. I’m looking at material right now in my hands where you have sex educators saying to students, basically, you just need to get over the prejudices of your parents. The author of a very important new book I Hold in my hand is Miriam Grossman. She’s a psychiatrist specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. She’s the author of the new book.
You’re Teaching My Child What A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child, Dr. Grossman, several years ago I was with Jay Kessler, a well-known evangelical figure, president of Youth for Christ at one point, and then also president of Taylor University. He was talking about parenting and having worked with teenagers for so long, he made a point I’ll never forget, he said, look, he said, dads, if you’re not giving your pre-adolescent and adolescent daughters the affection they need, if you’re not hugging them and you’re not spending the time with them, then they’re going to find some male who will give them that attention. Just the importance and power of a hug. I looked at your book. I had never, in all the time I’ve spent surveying this literature, I had never seen what you talk about here just in terms of the power of a hug. You quote a particular doctor here and a neuropsychiatrist as saying to young women, don’t let a guy hug you unless you plan to trust him. Can you explain that?
Miriam Grossman:
Sure. Well, that’s Dr. Louise Bine from the University of California. She’s a neuropsychiatrist. She wrote an amazing book called The Female Brain, and she’s done a lot of this research about oxytocin that I was speaking about in the earlier segment. She writes in her book, not just a hug, hello, a hug goodbye, that type of thing, but a 22nd hug is what she’s talking about now, a 22nd hug is pretty long, okay. You have to admit it. So yeah, she says that during a 22nd hug, oxytocin is released, and oxytocin, as I pointed out a minute ago, is associated with feelings of attachment and feelings of trust. But you’re bringing up something so important about fathers and daughters.
The place of a girl’s biological father is so, so imminent in her life, imminent, I should say, with an e girls, in fact, who are living with their biological parents. Both of them are at a much lower risk of early sexual behavior and a teen pregnancy. Of course, dads need to be present in their girls’ lives, especially their teen girls. The girls need them as much as ever to be there, to have strong expectations, to let her know what parental values are and to assume when those values are explained, that the child, both the son and daughter, are able to live up to those values. We don’t want to go the way of what the sex educators are saying, which is just give your child information and then watch as he or she makes their own choice, and don’t judge that choice. Not at all. We wouldn’t have that approach in any other health matter. We step up to the plate, we tell our kids what’s healthy for them, what’s unhealthy, what we believe in, what our values are, and then we tell our kids, we expect for you to live up to those values even though it may be difficult.
Albert Mohler:
Dr. Grossman, I have to tell you, I was in a shopping mall just a few days ago, and I saw something that caught my eye that it is one of those things that just jarring enough that it’s memorable. There was a mom with two teenagers, a boy and a girl, and the teenagers I’d say were about 15 years old, somewhere around there. The mom was the mother of one of these two children. I don’t know which one, but these two kids were hanging on each other in such a way that I was ready to get a garden hose. I mean, it was just one of those situations where you’re looking at this, and the father in me was furious because the father in me is also a former teenage boy who understands that what’s going on in his system and in mind and what’s going on in her system in mind are very different.
In your book, in proximity here in the span of about three or four pages, you deal with oxytocin, and one of the things you deal with is the fact that, for instance, a 22nd, a hug releases more or less what we could call it, a cuddle hormone. You call that in the book or a trust hormone in an adolescent girl, whereas I love the way you described the adolescent boy. You suggest that he has a mind that is to quote here, marinated in testosterone. It’s also having a response to him. He’s having a response to the hug as well. It’s a very different kind of response, I can guarantee you,
Miriam Grossman:
Right? Huge differences. I mean, boys have oxytocin as well, but boys, especially young men, have surging levels of testosterone, and testosterone leads a young man to wish to spread his DNA as far and as wide as possible. I hope that that’s acceptable phraseology for your show. We
Albert Mohler:
Got it. We got it. And you’re right.
Miriam Grossman:
Yeah, yeah.
Albert Mohler:
No, no, we agree wholeheartedly, and that’s kind of what I was getting at too, that you’re looking at here, that you’re basically triggering a response, very understandable response of sexual arousal in the boy and a very clear response of trust in the girl that’s chemical, and God made us that way. I would’ve to intersect here, and yet God intended that for a much later development, and I would also have to add within the context of marriage, you put these two teenagers together, Dr. Grossman, what concerns me is a lot of parents will look at that and see it as innocuous.
Miriam Grossman:
Okay, A few points. First of all, I just want to mention that as an Orthodox Jew, I agree with you, it’s God that created us in this manner and that hormones such as oxytocin, which lead to feelings of trust and attachment and love from intimate behavior, of course, it’s the most fantastic thing in the right time and in the right place with the right person. That’s what you want. You want to have that glue between the two of you and that trust and attachment, but about parents being led to think that this is innocuous. We have had 50 years of sex educators standing up, people with PhDs who present themselves as authorities, experts in the subject, and they have led parents to believe that they know more than them, and parents as a result have been intimidated. And one of the reasons I wrote my book is because I want parents to not be intimidated, and if their gut feeling says one thing about what’s good for their child, they should follow that gut feeling,
Albert Mohler:
And that is a tremendous conclusive statement. This new book by Dr. Miriam Grossman is an important book. Dr. Grossman is a brave and very wise author. We’ll be back with final thoughts in just a moment. You’re listening to the Albert Mohler program.
Welcome back to the Albert Mohler program. One of the challenges I face in doing this radio program, especially in an interview like this on a topic of this importance and sensitivity, is trying to figure out how much to say and how much to remain and leave unsaid. And that is difficult because I’ll tell you, there’s a part of me that simply wants to get all this out there so that parents will be armed with all the data and the facts, but that’s the difference between the book and the radio program. That’s the difference between the conversation we just had and why you need to read the book and in the book find information that goes far more into detail than what we talked about on this program. The book is entitled, you’re Teaching My Child What A Physician Exposes The Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child.
It’s published by Reary Publishing. You’ll find the link to the book at my website@albertMohler.com. Just look at the link for today’s program and we’ll put up the links both for this book and for Dr. Grossman’s previous book, and I want to tell you a little bit about that book. It was entitled, unprotected A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness Endangers Every Student. When that was published, well, quite frankly, it was published without most people knowing, at least at first, who the author was obviously a psychiatrist working on a major university campus with a lot of access to younger adults and older adolescents and what they deal with at their stage of life. What I really appreciate about Miriam Grossman as a psychiatrist, as a physician is that she writes with candor and courage about an issue that will get her in trouble with the establishment.
There are those that would not want these arguments made. This is an ideological battle, and if you read the book, and frankly if you listen to the conversation we just had, Dr. Grossman makes that point again and again and again. These who claim to speak as experts are really not acting as experts at all. They’re not acting as scientists because if they were, they would have to actually look at the data. They would have to understand that the data indicate that indeed teenagers and young adults should not be having sex, that indeed monogamous fidelity of persons when it comes to sex, and not only sex, but intimacy is something that’s important to human health and human happiness. Now, you know that that’s not what is coming from the cultural Lilly. You know that that’s not what is coming from the dominant sex education establishment, and in that last portion of the interview with Dr.
Grossman, you heard what she said to parents, don’t be intimidated. In her book, she says that the syndrome that the sex educators try to present is the dichotomy between Hicks and Harvard. It’s Hicks versus Harvard. Parents who are against this community leaders, church leaders who are against this regime of sex education. They’re presented as hicks and the establishment is presented at Harvard. In other words, we’re coming with all the intellectual authority. Well, in order to answer that, you need data and good analysis, and that’s why Dr. Miriam Grossman’s book is important. It’s entitled, you’re Teaching My Child What a Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How they harm your Child. I think you’ll agree there are few issues that more quickly get to the essence of parenting and concern for our children than this. Leave back tomorrow for Ask Anything Wednesday on the Albert Mohler program.
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