“In matters involving intimacy and human sexuality, parents have the right and the responsibility to be the primary educators,” the senator, who is also a Pentecostal minister, said in a statement. “Many parents teach their children that these are private topics not to be discussed casually or in group settings.”
His position puts him at odds with his son Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., who told the staff of The Hunts Point Express that he was a strong supporter of sex education in the schools, said he wished his parents had been more open about sexual issues and said he had made a point of teaching his two sons about safe sex and birth control.
The elder Diaz criticized the Department of Education for reinstating required sex education classes in all middle schools and high schools. “There is no formal arena for formal parental input. There is no opportunity for public hearings. There are no requirements that these regulations be open to public review and comment,” he said. “No accountability to the public, to the parents, and certainly not the children.”
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If sex ed belongs at home…then religious instruction certainly belongs at home to…every student is NOT a Christian..so maintain the Seperation of Church and State as called for in the Constitution….