Lake County Right to Life, Inc. strongly opposes Illinois SB 1619, the Personal Responsibility Education Act. This bill purports to promote comprehensive, medically accurate and effective sex education, but does none of these things, instead representing a worldview battle. Its apparent main goal is to remove the long-standing policy of the State of Illinois that “abstinence until marriage” is to be the focus of sex education programs, supporting abstinence as the expected norm.
While the sponsor, State Sen. Heather Stearns (D-Chicago) says that the intent is to include abstinence programs, the bill’s language belies this. The law has a clear political and social engineering agenda—it promotes a curriculum designed to indoctrinate children by presenting relativism and sexual immorality as the norm. It presents disputed information as fact and even distorts the positions and values of religious congregations.
The promoted curriculum teaches children ages 5-8 about homosexuality, same sex marriage, masturbation and intercourse. It teaches children ages 9-12 about a full panoply of gender identities, presents abortion as just another option and depicts opposition to immoral sexual behavior as discrimination. Further, under SB1619, schools will not have to notify parents in advance about controversial curriculum content.
Lake County Right to Life urges Illinois citizens to contact their state senators and representatives in opposition to this bill.
About Lake County Right to Life
Established in 1973 and headquartered in Grayslake, Lake County Right to Life is an educational and advocacy organization for the protection of innocent human life. The organization works in Lake County to promote the vision of a society in which all human life is respected, protected and secure.
For more information, please call the Lake County Right to Life office at (847)223-7022.
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