Germany Fines and Jails Parents For Opting Their Children Out Of Mandatory Sex Ed Indoctrination
Life Site News has the details…
At least eight Russo-German families in Salzkotten, Germany, have suffered heavy fines and now their fathers have been sentenced to prison, because they have refused to send their elementary school-age children to mandatory sexual education classes.
The International Human Rights Group, a Christian legal defense organization that defends religious liberty and the right to homeschool in Europe, reports that in addition to refusing to allow their children to attend sex-ed classes, the families also resisted having their children enlisted in a theatre production of “Mein Körper gehört mir” or “My Body Belongs to Me,” which informs young children in how to engage in sexual intercourse.
With fines having failed to force the families into compliance, government officials have now sentenced each of the families’ respective fathers to spend a brief time in prison. One father has already spent seven days in jail and was released Friday.
Instead of inflicting ordinary punitive fines on the families, the state has opted to impose a special fine called “Bussgeld,” which IHRG European Director Richard Guenther explains literally means “repentance money” and is “designed to show contrition for a wrong behavior on the part of the person being fined.”
The “Bussgeld” fines are significant, perhaps especially because they put the eight German families in an impossible situation: payment of the fines would imply an admission of guilt, but they believe that they have done nothing wrong.
“This type of persecution from German government officials against the Salzkotten 8 shows how committed the German system is to punishing home school families and others who do not comply with the compulsory education laws,” said IHRG President Joel Thornton, “even when they are only removing their children from a single clearly objectionable class.”
Thornton states that unlike much of the American education system, German officials “view the children as belonging to the State, particularly during the time they are in school” and for that reason parents’ beliefs and authority over their children takes second place to the interests and mandates of the State.
That last line about German officials viewing children (in essence) as property of the state is outrageous, especially when we consider the history of the German people and it’s obedience to government edict, regardless of how depraved it might be. Government was front and center in the indoctrination of children that lead to the indoctrination of the Nazi youth prior to World War II, and it resulted in a German generation willing to commit some of the most heinous crimes committed against humanity in history. One would have thought the Germans might have learned something of the dangers of government control, but it appears not. Though I generally do not like to compare any modern event to what was perpetrated by Hitler, it must be noted that German officials circumventing the rights of parents trying to opt out of mandatory sex ed classes can and probably and should be characterized as another fascist attempt by the Left in that country to undermine individual liberty in that society. Are the parallels to history the same in this case? No, not yet, but there are ominous similarities. Shame on you Germany, shame on you!
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