“Sex Week.” It started at Yale University in 2002, and has since become an annual observance at colleges and universities nationwide. During this year’s Sex Week (which began not surprisingly on Valentine’s Day), the students at Ohio State University had the opportunity to attend “enlightening” lectures and discussions on several topics steeped in sexual themes. Unbelievably, there was even a gathering for those students who wanted to “create valentines” for abortion providers in Ohio and Texas “to help thank [them] for the valuable work they do for reproductive rights!”
Needless to say, Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and the sixth commandment of the Decalogue were not popular subjects for discussion and reflection — although they should have been. Many young people in higher education today are being brainwashed (for lack of a better term) by an immoral and godless hedonism that is rooted in pure selfishness, and which will negatively impact their future marriages and families.
It might even affect their eternal destinies.
It should come as no surprise, therefore, that, according to a reporter from Newsweek Magazine, there were 77 reported assaults on the Ohio State campus in 2021. In all likelihood, of course, there were a number of others that went unreported.
We owe it to our young people to teach them the truth: the truth about the dignity of the human person; the truth about the importance of living a life of virtue and chastity; the truth about God’s plan for marriage and the family.
If we fail to do this — if we remain silent on these extremely important moral matters — you can be sure that the people running Sex Week at the local institution of higher learning will be more than happy to fill the vacuum that remains with their half-truths and lies.
