You couldn't make it up dept no.87: the sermon will not be televised

[fpb]

From www.floridatoday.com:
A church giving sermons about sex may have to find a new home. Brevard Public School District's risk-management department has threatened to boot New Hope Church out of Sherwood Elementary because of a worship series titled "Great Sex for You."

Church leaders mailed 25,000 fliers, asking residents "Is Your Sex Life A Bore?" The three-week program kicked off inside the school auditorium. Pastor Bruce Cadle had said the Christian church has been "shamefully silent" on the taboo topic.

Mark Langdorf, the director of risk management, says the mailers generated complaints, were not appropriate for elementary school children and shouldn't be used to advertise the sermon in the school.

Langdorf says the church's lease contract is under review.

Comments

[blue-sky-day.livejournal.com]

I'm not talking about what could, or even what probably might happen eventually. I'm talking about present and past. It's not likely that an American elementary school teaches comprehensive sex ed.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope you're right.

[jfacemyer.livejournal.com]

While it seems like a far stretch to a logical mind, there is actually pretty scary sex "ed" happening in some of our US elementary schools.

For example, readers which talk about a kid and his two "daddies", etc.

While I can only provide anecdotal evidence (remembered from a news article a while back), I'm certain that we are not aware of everything that happens in today's classrooms.

Which is why I cannot, in good conscience, put my children in an institutional school. But that's another matter :)

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

It depends on what you mean by elementary school. I know I had sex ed in 5th grade--mostly to prepare the girls for our approaching menarche, of course, but sex was certainly mentioned.

We were segregated by gender so I don't know what the boys were learning about, but I remember the conference room in my elementary school where I attended the class very clearly--and the little travel case containing tampon and pad samples provided to us by, IIRC, Kotex. No condoms, lol. And I vaguely remember the book which contained a lot of diagrams done in that strange vector art style.

This was a public elementary school in eastern Pennsylvania circa 1997.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

OH! And we watched a video about a girl who got her first period at a sleepover, and her friend's mom made a model of the uterus, ovaries etc... in pancake batter. Like, she was making pancakes for breakfast, and the girl was like "So what is a uterus anyway?" and the mom took the pancake batter and poured it into the pan and made this uterus shaped pancake--don't ask me how, they didn't show the technique, only the uterus and ovary pancakes happily sizzling in the pan.

SO BIZARRE. I haven't thought about that video in years!