Representative Bob McDermott testifies before the Board of Education

Rep. McDermott calls the latest policy decisions by Hawaii’s Board of Education to force Planned Parenthood style sex ed on Hawaii’s students a travesty. The BOE has taken the position that the controversial sex ed programs in public schools should revert to the automatic enrollment, opt-out model. The actual curriculum being pushed will be along the lines of what McDermott calls “sexuality education.”

“Opt-out is a bad thing, because parents should be in charge of what their children are exposed to in our schools, it diminishes parental control and involvement,” said McDermott. “This new ‘comprehensive’ approach remains medically inaccurate and continues to push social engineering over the health and safety of our children. These programs treat anal sex as a healthy, wholesome, moral equivalent of male/female reproduction.”

McDermott thinks that the liberal agenda and focus on lifestyles over health concerns where…