"Laundering religious ideology into secular arguments is an increasing trend of the religious Right as it tries to slip under the radar of a society that doesn't like bible bashers. Particularly as the Howard Government looks more and more to Church groups/charities to administer welfare and employment services"

The laundering of religious ideology these days can result in a teacher or civil servant never working again. The fetishing of childhood is not a positive development, children have to dissociate to survive their education

Good article Alison. About time we had some common sense on this topic.

Kenny, your hatred of Christian morality is perverse. It will consume you.

I note that so many people on this forum really hate Christian morality and despise Christians who suggest that Christian morality is the best thing for our kids and will save them from a lot of pain and heart-ache.

However, it is said that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Look at what liberal sex education has achieved: huge increases in STIs, huge increase in infertility, unwanted pregnancies which make it difficult for girls to complete education, increased abortions and the resulting post-abortion trauma, increased family and marriage break-down etc etc.

Liberal sex education has had its turn and has been found wanting. Valueless and clueless sex educators have been hammering kids with their values free anything-goes sexual fantasies for at least 15 years now and look where it has got us. It has made things an order of magnitude worse and it will take several generations to recover.

It's time we gave kids some REAL sex education. It's time we told taught them about monogamy, pregnancy, faithfulness, intimacy, love, respect, honour, responsibility and the spiritual side of sex, rather than just the plain and dispassionate mechanics of it all, and instant or short-term gratification. It's time they knew that condoms don't protect against the most common STIs (ie. HPV and herpes) and that homosexuality is a very dangerous, unhealthy and painful lifestyle.

Let's chuck the "religious ideology" of the liberal left secular humanists, homosexuals and lesbians. They have done nothing but immeasurable harm to our kids and our society.