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May 14, 2012
The Honourable James Moore
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
Dear Minister Moore,
I am shocked to hear about the explicit sexual content of the exhibition “Sex: A Tell All Exhibition” that is scheduled to open May 17 in the federally funded family environment of the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
While I have not seen the exhibition personally, the comments received in my office indicate that there are pornographic images; some reportedly involving or depicting children (under the age of 18 years), potentially in violation of the Criminal Code.
I would be relieved to find out these reports are not true, just as I would be remiss in not bringing them to your attention if they are.
Don Hutchinson, B.A., J.D.
Vice-President, General Legal Counsel
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
cc. Prime Minister Stephen Harper
This is outreageous, I cant beleive religion would be involved with this museum activity. Stay out please.
Having seen the exhibit with my family, I can only recommend it to all. It provides a healthy context to better understand human sexuality and it is done in a very professional manner. Banning this exhibit would be akin to banning anatomy textbooks.
A better understanding of sexuality does not violate any moral standards per se and I cannot imagine it would encourage deviant behaviours.
The fact that the author of the letter has not seen the exhibit completely removes any shred of credibility it might have had otherwise.
The most common fallback assertion of fools is you can’t say anything if you haven’t seen it.
The exhibit is anti-scientific because it does not affirm sexuality strictly within marriage. The exhibit provides content which expresses certain views on these subjects that go beyond medical science and it expresses the wrong views. It`s views are abusive of people physically, emotionally and spiritually. That makes it anti-scientific.
You are confessing to the dishonest anti-scientific nature of the exhibit by saying a person has no credibility if they haven`t seen it because you are therefore implying that the similar Montreal exhibitioners put up a completely dishonest website in conjunction with the physicial exhibit that is in no way an accurate representation of the physical exhibit.
Sir, you need to get a grip on the facts and on your arguments before making any other absurd comments.
We agree that the religion of Humanism should be kept out of the exhibit. Humanism is one of the most pathetic philosophical foundations on which to attempt any kind of serious science. The reliability of the scientific method is rooted in the rationality of the Christian faith.
If you want to talk to human, without any ideology beside it that can affect the communication of a subject, you can’t present it trough a religious filter. These day their nobody to talk about sex to the young generation, and yes, pornography is EVERYWHERE, children’s are let in a space of sexual exploitation, publicity use it, internet rules it, and strangely, their nobody to talk to them about it. And please, Christians, stop spoiling the word Science, their not that much of time some of your ”scientists” was telling to everyone that masturbation can drive blind or cause serious mental healt damage….George Bush have try to put Creationism in school, wich is just inconceivable to put in the modern world we live in, because Objective information isnt as easy to hide as before, if you wanna keep your child in ignorance, you can, but I think parents will find a gentle way to talk about a subject that is still taboo in a hyper-sexualised society with this kind of exhibit. I see this exhibit, its not vulgar at all, its an approach for young people that use humor and interaction to make them understand what involve with the puberty and sexuality, it help them to feel less lonely in all this shame that is still associate to sexual development. Its a very Compassionate and Respectful exhibition, and if religion were more compassionate and less totalitarist for the mind, world will go better for sure.
PS: By the way, Humanism isn’t a religion, you can be Christian and humanist at the same time, Jesus was a Humanist.
Why are you so ashamed of God’s creations?
Please, read the Bible! You should love what our Father created, in is own image! Not hate it!
Erik,
You are way off the mark with this, “…if you wanna keep your child in ignorance, you can…”
Those who know the damage and dangers of sexualising our children wish to protect them from the harms, both physical and psychological, of giving themselves to another sexually outside of marriage. You and the others who attack Christians are the ones who are ignorant. You talk as though Christians hate sex and think all sex is wrong. WRONG! Sex within a marriage of one man and one woman is God’s design and is therefore pure and 100% proper when kept within the marriage in decency.
Unbridled sex, just like unbridled drug use, has dire consequence and people, not just Christians, who love their children enough to want to protect them will oppose such stupidity as a sex museum. Perverts and those who wish to turn children into such, of course, would welcome such and call it art. Those kind also don’t care about the damage sex outside of marriage may have on future relationships, or the guilt and shame associated with it, or the diseases which may be fatal by engaging in it.
How many good dads out there wish for their daughters to be sexually active with multiple partners. The answer I think is pretty close to “none,” because dads who love their little girls wish to protect them, and that is for those who claim no religious beliefs also.
No, it is not we, who are ignorant.
Erik,
Of course humanism is a religion, your just being silly!