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Jul 16, 2010

A proposed sex-education curriculum in Montana is drawing outrage because it would teach young children about subjects like same-sex intercourse.


Under the proposal for the Helena school district, kindergartners would learn the proper names of sexual body parts, first-graders would be taught that sexual relations could happen between two men or two women, and fifth-graders would learn the various ways people can have intercourse.

Jeff Laszloffy, president of the Montana Family Foundation (MFF), contends that the proposal "tramples" on parental rights. "It places government squarely between parents and their children," he claims, "and the outrage that we're seeing in Helena, we understand well, because in Montana we understand what happens when you get between a mother grizzly and her cubs."

Jeff Laszloffy (Montana Family Foundation)He relates that reaction to the "level of outrage that we're seeing from these parents that feel like their children are being indoctrinated rather than educated."

He notes that the superintendent and supportive board members claim parents will be able to have their kids opt-out, "but then they're careful in the rest of their testimony to make sure that the public understands that this is both systemic and comprehensive, which means that it's going to be infused into every part of the curriculum all the way from kindergarten through 12th grade."

So Laszloffy concludes that opting-out is not practical, and he feels parents should continue to express indignation because it appears the board may have enough votes to pass the controversial curriculum.