California approves controversial sex ed guidelines. The Importance of Mothers Today.

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Friday, May 10th, 2019. Sex

Education Guidelines now approved by California for public school teachers are being praised by LGBT advocates.

However, some parents and conservative

groups are opposing the document as an assault on parental rights, claiming it exposes children

to ideas about gender and sexuality that should be taught at home. As controversial as the new

guidelines are, they could have been worse. After several organizations opposed what they called

sexually explicit and

offensive, reckless, and immoral books, originally included in the guidelines, the state removed

five books from its framework. One depicting male and female anatomy had been recommended

for kindergarten through third grade students. An earlier draft also included descriptions of

aberrant sexual behavior I won't detail here.

In better news, today marks the Cesquicentennial celebration of the Golden Spike, the ceremonial

final spike connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads at Promontory Summit in the Utah

territory. On May 10, 1869, the 17.6-carat gold spike was used to complete

the transcontinental railway and then removed and replaced with an iron spike. The golden spike is

now on display at Stanford University. One side of the spike was engraved with this inscription.

May God continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two great oceans

of the world.

It seems appropriate that today's Golden Spike anniversary is followed in two days by Mother's Day.

The year before our nation's railroads were connected, Anne Reeves Jarvis organized Mother's

Friendship Day, where mothers gathered with former Union and Confederate soldiers to promote harmony and reconciliation.

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