When will the Harper Conservative government finally “get it?” In late October, 2010, the Canadian delegation at the U.N. sided with Switzerland, Norway, Argentina and the European Union in “fully and wholeheartedly” supporting a controversial and divisive U.N. report that promotes “a new human right to explicit sexual education for young people.” Why are these anti-life delegates, after five years of conservative government, still on the job?

            The African and Caribbean blocs led the widespread hostility toward the report by registering their “strong rejection” and “strong disapproval,” (Samantha Singson, C-Fam.org, Oct. 28, 2010), causing the General Assembly of the United Nations to take no action on this report (though it is expected to consider it again in December).

            The author of the controversial report, one Victor Muñoz, asserts that parental authority may never run counter to the rights of children and adolescents. According to him, that is “denying the existence of lesbian, gay, transgendered and bisexual population that exposes these groups to discrimination” (ibid).

Where do we hear this refrain also. Well, in many places in North America and especially in Ontario. The proposal’s passage would:

1) guarantee the right of children to sexual enjoyment without restraint from their parents;

2) deny their parents the right to be involved in the sex education of their children; and

3) deny religious bodies the right to teach abstinence and chastity. It this the policy of the Harper government?

            Family Watch International is monitoring this development at the U.N. It warns:

“Those pushing the radical “sexual rights” agenda, which has at its core the sexualizing of children from a very young age, are not giving up. Pro-life opposition may have had an impact at the international level, but activists are pushing this same agenda at the national, state, provincial and local levels all over the world…. We must be prepared to stop these activists wherever they are exposed….The fight continues”  (Sharon Slater, President of Family Watch International).

Action

Please write your MP and the Prime Minister and as well as relevant Ministers (Foreign affairs, etc.), expressing strong disapproval of the U.N. report and demanding the replacement of Canadian government representatives to the U.N. who voted for this despicable proposal.