If your religion has a very different take on secular things- then you have the right to keep your child out of those activities by either absenting the child, or home schooling. The difference, of course, is turning the secular, into the religious. Sex is not really religious. Most people have sex, religious or not. If you need to inculcate religion with sex, you should do that outside of the school. In our school there is no sex education without parental permission- so you would actually need to opt IN, if you wanted your child to receive such education.
I'm not saying the state has no right to intrude on the secular which people choose to make religious, I'm saying the state should not be doing anything religious, that is clearly and overtly religious. No praying, no God, or Gods, or Great Spirit, or Satan, or Allah, no burnt offerings, etc. |
