Sex education is a standard part of the curriculum in public schools these days. Not only do they teach how to do it, when to do it, and where to do it, many also hand out free condoms to the children. Abstinence-only curriculum is scorned, and adoption over abortion isn’t even considered. Now, one school is saying that even discussing the sanctity of life is out.
Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) — Roosevelt High School officials are beginning to respond to criticism of its decision to cancel a speech there by a leading pro-life advocate. The Des Moines public school canceled a scheduled talk with pro-life advocate Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Amazingly enough even the Iowa ACLU, which is pro-abortion, disagrees with stopping Ms. King from speaking to the students.
. . .representative Ben Stone told the Register that Danielson is doing a “disservice” because it makes the school appear to be shielding its students from various viewpoints on abortion.
“Alveda King was invited to speak, and telling her to stay away now is wrong, for it implies that the school is taking sides on the abortion issue, while at the same time depriving students of an opportunity to engage in this important moral topic,” Stone said.
King has spoken previously about the high incidence of abortions in the African-American community.
“In the last forty-plus years, 15 million black people have been denied their most basic civil right, the right to life,” King noticed.
“Roughly one quarter of the black population is now missing,” she reflected. “This hasn’t happened because of lynch mobs, but because of abortionists who plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.”
King said abortion is a “great irony” because it has decimated the African-American population in ways the Klu Klux Klan never could.
“It’s time that we remember the sacrifices of men like my father and my uncle who worked and died so that our children could live,” King concluded. “It’s time to stop killing the future and keep their dream alive.”
King regularly speaks at public schools and charges no speaking fee for her presentations.
Kathie Danielson, the principal who canceled the presentation, said that she examined King’s presentation beforehand, and thought it would be good for focusing on diversity and race issues, but decided to cancel after a few pro-abortion parents of students complained about King’s pro-life views, as there was “a connection to morals” in the speech.
So, the public education system that believes it is their job to teach sex education, how to prevent pregnancy, and how to end pregnancy, won’t let a pro-lifer present an opposing view? Sounds to me like morals are already being taught there.
