DEPUTY Speaker Eduardo Villanueva (PL, Cibac) yesterday slammed the inclusion and the alleged “promotion” of the topics of gender fluidity, same-sex union and even marriage in the draft curriculum of the Department of Education for Kindergarten to Grade 10 students.
“We are shocked to discover that the promotion of gender ideology, same sex union and same-sex marriage is slowly creeping under our nose into the very curriculum of our basic education! What is more worrying is the slant towards promoting and condoning such practices in the minds of our young students!” said Villanueva, the president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide (JILCW).
Villanueva said what the DepEd did was not only “anti-God, but also clearly unconstitutional!” since Section 13, Article II of the Constitution mandates that the State shall promote the “moral and spiritual well-being of our youth.”
The lawmaker said he is now mulling the filing of a resolution and propose the conduct of a congressional inquiry on the matter.
“I do not see that the introduction of these topics into our basic education curriculum is heading (to) the right direction,” said Villanueva, who has been assailed by Bataan Rep. Geraldine Roman for trying to derail the passage of bills seeking to outlaw discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression (SOGIE).
DepEd has released its draft revised curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 10 through its Facebook page and has invited the public and interested stakeholders to review the same and provide feedback until today.
Villanueva however said that in the proposed new curriculum under the subject Araling Panlipunan 10, among the topics included to be taught to the students are the “different genders and the meaning and benefits of same sex unions.”
“Though this is still a draft and, hopefully, will still undergo revisions, it is just very disturbing that there are proponents of gender ideology inside DepEd that inject this advocacy to the education of our youth. I am calling all stakeholders to be more vigilant on this issue because this a primordial concern that will shape the moral fiber of our youth,” he said.
