Is teaching contraception in school a violation of christian rights?

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This is a 2 part question:
A little while ago I posted about how SOME christians are trying to force their morality on the rest of us.

It got me thinking. While I support teaching contraception techniques in high school (prevents teen pregnancy, STD's, etc) is this the one area where they might actually have a point?

I mean, If I want the christians to teach their kids about creationism at home, can't I teach my kids about condoms and birth control at home?

1. Do you (The christians that don't want it taught in school) think its a violation of your religious freedom/trying to force our morality on you.

2. Would you agree to trade. No contraception for no creationism/ID/school prayer/etc. in schools?

Basically, leave the teaching of morality and religion to the parents and the teaching of actual academics to the schools.

That being said, it is a win-win for you. Its already illegal to teach creationism in public schools.
My kids are too young to go to school. And when they do they will go to a private school. I'm a Latin teacher so I get a discount!
I am an atheist and I support teaching contraception. It wasn;t saying I was morally opposed to it, I was asking if some of the christians did.
What made me this about this was, under the Bush administration funding was directed at abstinence only programs.

Also, the idea that god is not allowed in school is really overblown. Children can pray if they want, they just cant be made to pray. Children can wear crosses on their neck or t shirt or what ever, they just cant be forced to do it. They can freely express themselves, just not force it on others or have it forced on them.
 
I see it as a sign of either weakness or ignorance to try to claim and defend petty rights.

Get over it.
 
Contraception is essential knowledge for health, like addition is for Mathematics and spelling is for English. If they're going to go to public school, every child should have the opportunity to learn about safe sex options.

If the parents don't like it, they can tell their children to ignore what they're being taught, or they can home-school them.
 
Christians have mostly pulled their kids out of the public school system. Do as you please to your own poor children. Our kids are not prostitutes and johns so we don't face the health issues destroying secularists.

Want to know the truth? Secularists are not having enough children to even survive two more generations. Kind of self genocide with condoms I guess. Christians are having all the children. So in the end those making the rules will be those that are there.
 
I'd say that removing lessons on safe sex would be akin to child endangerment, some people are forced to listen to lies about contraceptives, taking away the one decent source of factual information would be dangerous to the childrens welfare.
 
Creationism is an ideology with NO evidence to back it up.
Birth control/ protection is relevant and important. Not everyone has someone at home to explain...
 
Sex and contraception should be an important part of the education process - if you want to see how damaging demonising and mystifying sex is, compare teenage pregnancy and abortion rates in the US to those of most western European countries.

There's no ideology in contraception, its just facts. If you're going to have sex, those facts could be useful. If you just believe sex is for procreation when you're married, those facts probably won't be. We don't not teach kids trigonometry just because most won't grow up ever having to use it, do we?
 
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