{"id":69026,"date":"2018-03-12T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69026"},"modified":"2018-03-12T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T23:31:22","slug":"telegraph-teach-pupils-the-value-of-abstinence-and-celibacy-says-church-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69026","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Teach pupils the value of abstinence and celibacy, says Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils should be taught about the value of abstinence and celibacy as part of their sex education lessons, the Church of England has said.<\/p>\n<p>In its submission to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/2017\/02\/28\/ministers-set-announce-plans-compulsory-sex-education-lessons\/\">Government&#8217;s overhaul of sex and relationships education<\/a>\u00a0the church also said that its lessons will also focus on &#8220;the Christian understanding of marriage as the context for sexual relationships&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\">In a blog the Church&#8217;s chief education officer, the Rev Nigel Genders, says that relationships and sex education in schools should teach students about &#8220;healthy relationships and lifestyle choices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/03\/12\/teach-pupils-value-abstinence-celibacy-says-church-england\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils should be taught about the value of abstinence and celibacy as part of their sex education lessons, the Church of England has said. In its submission to the\u00a0Government&#8217;s overhaul of sex and relationships education\u00a0the church also said that its<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69026\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,101,389,111,168,177,112,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69028,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69026\/revisions\/69028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}