3/3/19

Over the past few weeks I have given several descriptions of the sex ed bill, HB-1032. However, it is such a complicated and comprehensive bill it is hard to capture all that is within this legislation.

Here is another facet to this radical bill, this time considering what is not included.

The most glaring omission is anything relating to heterosexual marriage. The bill bends over backwards to require the instruction of other human relationships, including the entire LGBT+ spectrum and even singles out a requirement that “immigrant communities” be represented in the discussions. However, nowhere is there anything that would indicate that “comprehensive human sexuality education” includes instruction on sexuality within the context of a heterosexual marriage.

A quick search of the reengrossed version of the bill yields not one use of the words “marriage,” “baby,” “child,” “wife,” “husband,” “man,” or “woman.” The word “children” is only found in an amendment Republican House members included in a part of the bill that will not become a part of the statutory law and that was adopted after a very long and contentious debate in second reading.

In 1032 human sexuality is discussed as an activity that occurs between humans, but only in the context of individuals. Nowhere is it portrayed as an essential component of a healthy family, structured within the exclusive domain of marriage.

No, instead “gender stereotypes” are prohibited and “stigmatizing language,” is banned, which, considering the context of this legislation most assuredly includes the concept of teaching the merits of a one man one woman marriage.

Remember, this is supposed to be comprehensive, meaning the entire spectrum of what should be taught about the subject.

It is crystal clear. HB-1032 is intended to force feed all public school students in Colorado (charter schools included) a new morality that excludes the principle that marriage is the proper domain of sexual activity. Marriage has been an essential foundation for our American cultural mores for centuries, but in HB-1032 it is not even worth a mention. Instead it has been replaced with a new set of values that replaces traditional marriage with an “anything and everything else” set of values.