Friday, 12 September 2014
Yesterday Dr Thomas Ward, founder and former President of the National Association of Catholic Families (NACF), addressed the
major pro-family conference
which was held this week in the Kremlin, Moscow. SPUC staff, as well as
many colleagues from other pro-life/pro-family, are in Moscow, made a
major contribution to the conference. Here is the text of Dr Ward's
address on "Parents the Primary Educators of their Children; Parents
from legal outcasts to outlaws"
"Madame Chairman,
Christian families of Russia thank you for your call to the generosity
and joy of large families. It is a counter-revolutionary call to build a
new Civilisation of Love and Life. It is a call to our families to
replace today's dying Culture of Death with all its attacks on
normality: on life, love, sexuality, marriage, family and Christianity
itself. A culture of contraception, abortion, homosexualism and their
indoctrination subtly enforced on our families at home and brutally
imposed upon poor families abroad. A culture of planned demographic
collapse. A culture in which the only protectors of children are their
parents, their Primary Educators who may have little moral alternative
to civil disobedience and imprisonment. But parental rights are the
Achilles heel of the Culture of Death. It is here we must attack.
Having worked over forty years defending families I am convinced that
the root of the Culture of Death is the artificial separation in sexual
intercourse of love from life in contraception. Contraception is
associated with a rise not a fall in the abortion rate. Hormonal
contraceptives have been known to have an intrinsic abortifacient
pharmacological action since 1926!
This separation of life from love has spread from contraception, to in vitro fertilisation and now logically, even theologically to homosexual "marriage ".
Ladies and gentlemen, contraception is the gateway to the culture of death and it is of itself wrong.
Contraception alienates life from love in a second unrecognised way.
Secret contraceptive indoctrination and provision to children without
parental knowledge or consent, by governments, separate our children
from our protective love.
But if we parents contracept, how can we convincingly protect our children from contraception?
Revealingly both separations are promoted by one of the largest multi-nationals in the world, the birth control lobby.
Who removed our parental rights?
In 1922 Lenin initiated what was to become the Frankfurt School of
Western cultural Marxism. His intention - to destroy the obstacle of
Western Christian culture. The methods - the use of sexual instinct and
overwhelming negative destructive cultural criticism. They targeted our
families against the background of growing liberalism in church and
state.
The same message different messengers:
- “Communist society will take upon itself all the duties involved in
the education of a child.” Alexandra Kollontai, the first Soviet
People's Commissar for Social Welfare, 1920
- "Children have to be freed from… religious and other cultural
“prejudices” forced upon them by parents, civil and religious
authorities […] sex education should be introduced in the 4th grade,
(i.e. 9 to10) eliminating “the ways of elders” by force if necessary.”
Brock Chisholm, who became the first director of the World Health
Organisation in 1948
- "It is now the privilege of the Parental State to take major
decisions - objective, unemotional, the State weighs up what is best for
the child....” Lady Helen Brook, who started the “secret” provision of
contraceptives to the young - the very first step in the usurping of
parental rights on education and medication.
- “Parents – the most dangerous people of all.” A Family Planning Association spokeswoman
In 1974 the British Government prohibited doctors from contacting
"parents of a child of whatever age" when she requested
contraceptives.Parents legally challenged this in the courts. Law Lords
ruled that when a doctor decided a child fully understood what was
proposed the child could consent to all treatments and parents' rights
stopped. This now covers abortion.
The UN Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has instructed nations to
ensure the right to sexual education, to contraception and abortion for
girls and adolescents without parental knowledge or consent.
IPPF, based in London, is the nerve-centre of the world reproductive law
reform. London is the centre of Common Law jurisdiction which covers
one-third of humanity, the former British Empire. It operates in 189
countries including Russia.
Parents.. from legal outcasts to outlaws
Because of same-sex "marriage" legislation, Catholic adoption agencies ...caring in loco parentis for our most vulnerable Catholic children, have been outlawed.
The Education Act 1996 imposes a duty on state schools, including
religious schools, to teach about marriage in the National Curriculum.
With the legalising of same-sex "marriage", parents who object to this
being taught in general classes have no right to withdraw their
children. The school, because of its legal obligation to promote
equality, is itself obliged to refuse permission. Because of same-sex
"marriage" legislation, the exercising of the parental primary right to
educate has been outlawed.
And on the teaching of Christian sexual morality in schools, the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights has said:
"a
curriculum which teaches a particular religion’s doctrinal beliefs as
if they were objectively true… is likely to lead to unjustifiable
discrimination”
Because of same-sex marriage legislation, the the right to teach
Christian sexual morality as objective truth in educational institutions
has been outlawed.
Never before in the history of free men has
our human right to be the primary educators of our children been
removed. It is enshrined in Genesis, in the New Testament, in the
doctrine of the Orthodox and of the Catholic Church, in Aristotle and
the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights.
Ladies and
gentlemen, the demographic recovery of your great country will depend
disproportionately on generous large families. They will depend upon
legally-enforceable guarantees of their God-given, inalienable human
right as Primary Educators.
Through these families Russia will, please God, become a Christian beacon of hope to all humanity.
A new civilisation of Love and Life will begin.
Начнется новой цивилизации любви и жизни.
It will be our civilisation.
Она будет нашей цивилизации
It will be God's civilisation.
Это будет цивилизации Бога
Christian Families of Russia, thank you.
Христианские семьи России, спасибо"
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