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The Consumer's Voice NZ Blog has a post up naming a number of people involved in the under-age sex scandal aired on Close Up the other night, where a 14 year old girl was enabled in having sexual relationships with multiple older men. Statutory rape? Not in New Zealand it seems. Thanks, Chuck, for the link. Related link: CYF, Rosa Trust Counselling, an Albany Church, Youthlaw, two Schools, & Family Court endorse under-age sex with a minor (Close Up, 30/5/12) ~ Consumer's Voice NZ

There is yet another same-sex marriage debate on Kiwiblog today that just regurgitates the same old same old. Even attacks on bloggers from NZ Conservative who have commented there, attacks on this blog, and attacks on me. I just put that down to the extreme discomfort people have with their own lives when having to interact with those who hold to a higher moral standard on sexual matters, and who have the temerity to argue them! I kind of wonder if they want us all rounded up and shot. Anyway, rather than participate, I'll just link to a number of the posts I've already made on this subject that bear repeating for the few that might venture over to have a look-see. Same Sex Marriage creates a more powerful State Same-sex marriage will devalue women in society It's becoming dangerous to oppose same-sex marriage Do we redefine Christianity so that homosexuality becomes a valid expression of love? Obama invoking the harmless hippie Jesus on "Gay Marriag...

There's a bit of a battle brewing in Ontario, Canada, over what Catholic schools should and shouldn't be forced to do in contravention of authentic Catholicism. The Ontario government’s decision forcing Catholic schools to host anti-bullying groups called “gay-straight alliances” has brought to the fore a deep divide between Roman Catholic teaching and secular society, even calling into question whether public funding for Catholic schools should continue. At the root of the issue is a polarizing debate about whether public money should be used to support a religious education system that says homosexuals deserve love and respect but that gay sex is a mortal sin. “The question as to whether Catholic schools should be required to support gay-straight alliances has been satisfactorily answered,” Justin Trottier, spokesman for the Toronto-based Centre for Inquiry, an atheist group, said. “The real question now is whether Ontario should be required to continue to support Catho...

Hope you're not thinking of setting up a harem, there, Whale. In his post Family First opposes big families , Whale Oil conflates big families with those with multiple wives. He says, "I mean seriously if a bloke wants two mothers in law then all power to him." Right, it's all about the bloke.

I'm going to a school meeting tonight on sex education Positive Puberty for Year 7 & 8 pupils. I'm not particularly impressed with the list of items I've been given that they will be studying, and even less impressed that this list was read out to the class before I was even given the option to withdraw my child. The list included, "Coping with wet dreams, periods and erections." Apparently the bishops have approved the content of the programme. So this post is in effect my notes for tonight. SEX EDUCATION AND CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ~ EWTN chapter XI of On Teaching the Faith, by Thomas P. Dolan, 1984. Bishops who countenance sex education in schools quite probably tell themselves that if the instruction is given under Catholic auspices, it will be given "the right way." But there is no right way to give explicit sex instruction to children who are mentally and emotionally unready for it. There is no right way to give information in groups th...