Sex Education Program in Our Public Schools; What Is Behind It?
by Dr. Jack Hyles
In the first seventeen verses of Romans, chapter 1, we have the
discussion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. starting at verse 21, we
have the deterioration of the culture of a nation, or the society.
Now anyone who knows anything about history knows this: the Gospel
of Jesus Christ, whatever else it brings, elevates society. It
elevates womanhood. It elevates men in general. There has always
been a positive influence upon a society that has accepted the
Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Now there is a deterioration of society, and you see it here in
Romans, chapter 1. Here is a cultured society. And here is the step
down. Look at verse 21:
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and
their foolish heart was darkened."
What is the first step downward'? People who know God, who are not
thankful to God, and do not give God the proper place in their
lives. Now verse 22:
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
That is the second step. When you quit giving God the rightful place
in your life, then you profess yourself to be wise, and you exalt
your own self -- your own mind, your own thinking, your own
reasoning, your own logic -- above the Word of God, and the Bible
says you become fools.
And now step number three, in verse 23:
"And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts,
and creeping things."
That is modernism. Man first does not glorify God as he should.
Then he becomes wise in his own mind and thinks he knows more than the
Word of God. Then he becomes a liberal. He says the Bible is not true.
He says, "I have my own ideas about God. Everybody has a right to
interpret God for himself. And this is what I believe about God." He
becomes a liberal.
Now the fourth step is verses 24 and 25:
"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
themselves; Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped
and served the creature more than the Creator .... "
That next step in deterioration is humanism. Now you start off not
giving God the rightful place in your life. Then you become wise in
your own conceit. Then you decide you will be religious but you will
not believe in the God of the Bible. And then you become a humanist.
Your philosophy of life is based on humanism.
And by the way, that is basically the difference between communism
and democracy. Humanism is the great central word and theme of
communism.
Number five -- verse 26:
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
their women did change the natural use into that which is against
nature."
That is homosexual perversion.
"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working
that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves the recompence of
their error which was meet" (vs. 27).
This Deterioration in America Now Going on
Notice the progression now in America: first, a Christian nation, a
cultured, refined nation, decided not to give God His rightful place.
Men took the Bible out of the public school system. They took prayer
out of the schoolroom. Now that they have done that, they can say,
"We" or "I" know more than God. The Word of God, then, ceases to be
the criteria for truth, and then you deteriorate into your own concept
of God. "Everybody searching for the truth!" -- how many times have
you heard that in school? "Everybody searching for the truth. Nobody
has a corner on the truth." My Bible said that Jesus said, "I am the
truth."
A person who knows Jesus Christ not only knows the truth but He
knows the One who is the Truth.
So we become wise. Then we become liberal. Then after that, we
change the truth of God into a lie and humanism comes. And when
humanism comes, we worship the creature more than the Creator. Then
comes paganism. Hey, that is where we started! Paganism, conversion,
culture, not giving God everything, human wisdom, liberalism,
humanism, paganism. That is your cycle.
We send missionaries to a country, like people came to America,
with the Gospel. From that Gospel comes culture and refinement and
decency and character and integrity and honesty and morality. Then
what happens? There comes that culture. Then we get pretty smart. We
do not honor God. We do not give God His rightful place. Oh, we
believe the Bible but we do not honor God. We don't say much about it.
We don't get excited about it. We don't go to church on Sunday night.
We don't give God His tithe. We don't stand up for Christ. We are not
the right kind of Christian people.
Then what happens? We become wise. You see that Vacuum that is left
when we leave God? Here wisdom comes in and fills that vacuum. We
become enamored with ourselves. We become impressed with our
education, our culture, our refinement; then we think we know more
than God. When we do that, we have knocked the Bible out from under
us; we have knocked the foundation out from under the house, and then
we have liberalism.
Liberalism is nothing more than humanizing God and that in its end
is humanism. So we have humanism.
Then after we have humanism, We worship the creature, then the
creatures get together in perversion and homosexuality and we have
nothing but heathen paganism. Why? Because we are back where we
started. Because we have left the things that made our culture, you
see.
The thing that made America refined and cultured and decent and
honorable was the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And if we leave that, it
doesn't matter how many degrees we have, how many colleges, how many
universities. Listen! If you leave the salt out, you can't have salt,
you can't savor. So we have left out that which has savored, and now
we find ourselves a heathen nation.
Look! We are just as lawless today as they were in Wyatt Earp's
day. Isn't that true? Listen, twenty years ago when we heard of what
was going on in South America and Europe, with the demonstrations and
riots and folk being shot in the streets and a person's life
endangered when he got outside his own house, we thought of pagan,
heathen countries doing that. And we were right. Nations are pagan and
heathen when they do that. Now the honest truth is, we face tonight a
moral breakdown and deterioration, and we face paganism and anarchy.
Why? Because we have followed the time-tested pattern of
deterioration. Enough of that.
Steinbeck's Book Required Reading in Some Schools
It is surprising how few parents know what is going on in the
public school .system. Apathy is killing America, especially apathy on
the part of God's people.
I have in my hand tonight a book, John .Steinbeck's Of Mice and
Men. This book is a best-seller. John Steinbeck was the winner of
the Nobel Prize. This book was at one time required reading at a
school in this area. Now at the school where some of my children go,
they made it required reading but backed out because there was so much
complaint about it, of which complainants I was one! I will not read
this language; I will let you guess what the words are. I want to read
to you some statements from this book, required reading not in a
college but for freshmen in high school. Will all you high school
freshmen stand up, please? Now, this book was required reading in a
high school -- at least one, maybe more -- for boys and girls this
age. Thank you.
Here we go. On page 33 I read:
"Don't let him pull you in -- but -- if the ##### (son of a
female dog) socks you -- let 'im have it."
Page 35:
"Listen to me, you crazy b###### (an illegitimate child)," he
said fiercely. "Don't you even take a look at that b#### (a female
dog)."
Now one reason I am preaching on this is that a lot of you parents
are so lazy that you don't check on it. Tonight I am going to cram it
down your throats. You are going to know what your children are
reading.
Page 39:
Carlson said thoughtfully, "Well, 1ooka here, Slim. I been
thinkin'. That dog of Candy's is so g## d### old he can't hardly walk.
Stinks llke h###, too."
Page 48:
Candy went on, "Either you guys got a slug of whiskey? I gotta
gut ache."
That kind of stuff is not vulgar but it sure goes against my
refinement. There is a word for gut which decent people use -- it is
called stomach. And you people who think you are educated and refined,
listen, when you use that, you are nothing but a heathen with a
degree. Not only do you not know how to use decent language; you are
not even cultured. Now that book is required in some high schools.
Page 48 again:
"Gotta bad gut ache," said Candy. "Them g## d### turnips give it
to me."
Not only is it vulgar talk, but that is not even good English.
Don't get mad yet. We haven't begun. I see a lot of folks frowning
already. You may have a stroke before we are through.
Page 59:
Whit stood up. "I guess maybe I'd like to see this," he said.
"Curley's just spoilin' or he wouldn't start for Slim. An'
Curley's handy, g## d### handy."
Page 61:
George sighed. "You give me a good w#### house (place where
prostitutes do their business) every time," he said. "A guy can go in
an' get drunk and get ever'thing outa his system all at once."
Page 83:
Candy rubbed his cheek angrily. "You g## d### right we're gonna
do it .... "
"Yeah?" said Crooks. "An' where's George now? In town in a w####
house."
Page 95:
"This here g## d### little son-of-a-##### (female dog) wasn't
nothing to George."
Page 107:
"That big son-of-a-##### (female dog) done it."
"I'll kill the big son-of--a-####### (illegitimate child)
myself. I'll shoot 'im in the guts."
Now you hear me, and you hear me well. If you would cram this
filthy, rotten, stinking trash down the innocent minds of these little
boys and girls who stood up awhile ago, you ought to be in the
penitentiary. You ought to be in jail. And, by the way, there was a
day in this country when you would have been!
Now this book is required reading. My boy was supposed to read this
book, but there were so many complaints about it -- mostly by our
people -- that they took this book out and put another one in. It had
a lot of these vulgar words and they still DAMN the name of God all
the way through it. And when I told the committee, "My boy is not
going to read it," the committee said, "Now let's talk about it."
I said, "Talk about it all you want to, but my boy is not going to
read it."
"Well," they said, "we will reach an agreement."
I said, "Yes, and I can tell you now what the agreement is going to
be: my boy is not going to read the book."
They said, "Well, you find worse things than that on the restroom
walls."
I said, "Yes, and when you make the restroom walls required
reading, I will come back up here."
The simple truth is, there is too much good literature that has
been taught through the years in America to let such trash as this be
crammed down the minds of our tender freshmen boys and girls.
The book, Caine Mutiny, is not as bad as this one I have
quoted but it condemns the name .of God all the way through. I heard a
teacher say that she thought Caine Mutiny ought to be read,
that there was nothing wrong with freshmen children reading Caine
Mutiny. You think this is bad; you ought to read Baldwin's book
that some of our kids are having to read. It contains the most vulgar
four-letter words you ever saw written on a sidewalk. But they said to
me, "Now Rev. Hyles, Caine Mutiny is the language of a sailor.
That is the way sailors talk." I know a lot of sailors who do not have
to use dirty words to talk!
Now you had better check and see what your children are being
required to read. There has been a deterioration in our school system
in the last five years that you would not believe. And in the next
five years when these demonstrators and 1ong-haired beatniks get out
of college and are teaching our children, it will double the
deterioration we have seen in the last five years. And that is only
the beginning.
One of our students in our church overheard two teachers talking
recently in school. One said, "If we are going to get something real
vulgar in next year, we had better get something a little less vulgar
in this year. And if we can get a certain book in this year, next year
we will wriggle in the real vulgar ones." And that is only the
beginning.
THE IMMORAL PEOPLE WHO BACK SEX
TEACHING IN SCHOOLS
In 1964, May 14, an organization was started in the State of New
York called the Sex Information and Education Council of the United
States, called SIECUS. It reached its full bloom on July 1, 1965.
It broke in at 1855 Broadway in New York City. It is this organization
that is influencing school systems all across America in sex
education. Anybody knows that. It is either directly or indirectly
responsible for the battle that is going on in almost every city of
any size all across this great country concerning sex education in.
our school system. We call it SIECUS. Now its mother was a magazine
called SEXOLOGY, which I will show in a few minutes. SIECUS, this sex
education institute, was fostered by the editor and contributors and
co-editors of a magazine called SEXOLOGY. SEXOLOGY is one of these
magazines that was sold only behind the counter, a paperback that was
considered pornography years ago. Now it has come to be a popular
magazine because we live in an age when PLAYBOY, etc., can be popular.
The people who founded, fostered and promoted the SEXOLOGY magazine
are the people who are behind SIECUS. And those people are the ones
who are behind the sex education program in our public school system.
I have tonight a copy of SEXOLOGY. Boy, you think I didn't have a
hard time getting this copy!
SEXOLOGY magazine is the forerunner of SIECUS, and I will prove it
to you in a minute. I want to introduce to you tonight the people
behind the sex education program.
Editor Rubin Proved Communist
Editor SEXOLOGY
First, I introduce to you Editor Isadore Rubin. Mr. Rubin is editor
of the SEXOLOGY magazine. He is the treasurer of SIECUS. Yes, the
editor of this magazine SEXOLOGY is the treasurer of the organization
that is behind the sex education program in Highland schools, in
Munster schools, in Hammond schools, in Chicago schools, in Anaheim
schools, in San Diego schools, and in school systems across this great
nation. The editor of this pornographic literature is the treasurer of
SIECUS! Mrs. Mildred Blauvelt was a detective for a number of years on
the New York police force. On May 3, 1955, before the House
Un-American Activities Committee, she identified under sworn statement
that he, Isadore Rubin, editor of SEXOLOGY and treasurer of SIECUS,
was a communist and she named the communist organizations to which he
had belonged. In March, 1945, he was in service, the editor of this
magazine and the treasurer of SIECUS, and he sent a ten-dollar
donation to the Communist Party fund drive. When discharged from the
army, he attended meetings of the Flatbush Club of the Communist
Party.
He was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and
asked to refute his communistic affiliation but he refused to do so.
He had a chance before the committee to say, "I am not a communist."
He refused to disassociate himself with communism. He was for awhile
the editor of the New York Teacher News, the magazine of the
newspaper, the official organ of the New York Teachers Union. The New
York Teachers Union was expelled from AFL-CIO because of its
communistic affiliation, and this man was the editor. And he is the
treasurer of SIECUS! Isadore Rubin, one of the men who is trying to
teach your boys and girls about sex, edits this pornographic magazine!
Associate Editor Kirkendall of SEXOLOGY
Meet Lester A. Kirkendall, professor of Family Life at Oregon State
University, and the author of many lewd articles. And he is a noted
pornographic writer. He is an editor of SEXOLOGY. I read in this
paper: Lester A. Kirkendall, Ph.D., Editor, Parent Guidance of
SEXOLOGY magazine. He has articles in SEXOLOGY. Now let me read you
some of the "nice" articles in this magazine. Here are a few of the
titles:
"Alcohol Can Solve Sex Problems."
"My Wife Knows I Am a Homosexual."
"Group Sex Orgies."
"Can Humans Breed With Animals?"
These are some of the articles from the SEXOLOGY magazine. I read
some from the June issue of 1969:
"The Girl Who Couldn't Say No"
"Sex Life of a Dwarf"
"Hypnosis, a Sex Aid"
"The Prostitute and Her Customer"
Mr. Rubin, who advocates the sex education program, the communist,
the brother of communists, and the editor of this filth, is the one
you are promoting. And then Mr. Kirkendall is a faithful contributor
and editor of SEXOLOGY magazine.
Mr. Kirkendall has suggested a revision of SEXOLOGY "for use in the
public school system." He is the past director of the American
Humanist Association, which is an organization given to fighting
religion. So far you are walking in good company, aren't you?
Co-Founder of Sex Education Program
William Genne
Meet "Rev." William Genne. Rev. Genne is one of the co-founders of
SIECUS. In 1966 he affiliated himself with an organization that was
shady. A report in May 22, 1968 from the files of the House UnAmerican
Activities Committee, spoke of his belonging to a communist front
organization. He has belonged to the Community of Peaceful
Alternatives, to the Atlantic Pact, the World's Peace Appeal, and
other organizations, avowed communist front organizations. Meet "Rev."
Genne also of SIECUS.
Pornography Writer Dr. Pomeroy
Meet Dr. Wardell Pomeroy, also connected with .SIECUS. He is a
psychotherapist and marriage counselor in New York City. He is the
co-author with Kinsey on "Sexual Behavior of the Human Male." In the
June, 1968, issue of SEXOLOGY he describes "Most Unusual Sex Case"
with this subtitle: "Introduced to Sex by His Grandmother and to
Homosexuality by His Father, This Man Literally Tried Everything."
Isn't that a wonderful article? Aren't you proud that you are for a
sex education program that is promoted and fostered by men who write
such articles as this! Mr. Pomeroy is on the Board of Consultants of
SEXOLOGY.
President and Executive Director of SIECUS
Meet Lester Doniger. Lester Doniger is the current president of
SIECUS. He gives two birthplaces: one in Poland and one in Australia.
How convenient! His wife has sold tickets to communist meetings in her
state. He now is president of SIECUS. He himself has had a shady past
and much contact with communist-front organizations.
Meet Mary Calderone, the biggest serpent of them all. Mary
Calderone, the executive director of SIECUS, advocates the teaching of
sex in the kindergarten. Concerning homosexuality she said, "I cannot
condemn it." She directs SIECUS! She is the one who heads the program,
trying to put sex education in our public school system. She Said, "It
will be some time before homosexuality receives general acceptance in
America." I quote again Mary Calderone: "By the age of ten, a child
should master the factual aspects of reproduction."
In the SATURDAY EVENING POST her motto was quoted as being, "TELL
THEM EVERYTHING!" Listen, I cannot tell you all this wicked woman
advocates. I cannot tell you the words she wants kindergarten pupils
to know. I cannot tell you completely how she wants the terms of sex
organs to be known, called off by kindergarten pupils. She is the
executive director of SIECUS, and we have not yet begun!
Another Director Specializes in Nude
Photos of Sex Sin
Meet William Masters, also a SIECUS director. He, William Masters,
employs unmarried people to perform sexual acts before cameras so
films can be made of sexual acts for presentation to others. Can you
feature it! Look! Why, a liberal preacher, an atheist, an agnostic,
ought to be against this trash! Why should a fundamentalist preacher
have to stand almost alone? Every preacher in this area who believes
in God ought to be against people who try to fight religion and the
existence of a God. Taking our unmarried people and having them
perform sex acts before cameras! He is also a SIECUS director! Aren't
you proud of yourself! Go home and look in the mirror and say, "Boy,
you are walking in good company." Also these demented perverts and
communist people who edit and found and direct a magazine that was so
indecent a few years ago you had to buy it between the covers of other
magazines. Now these people are affecting and changing the lives of
millions of boys and girls in our nation.
William Masters has been quoted in that satanic-inspired PLAYBOY
magazine time and time again.
David Mace and Ashley Montagu
Meet David Mace. David Mace is the immediate past president of
SIECUS. He fights morality and. calls this Bible "the folklore of
ancient Hebrews." Now look. This kind of communistic humanism always
is anti-God and anti-Bible -- always is!
Meet Ashley Montagu who is on the SIECUS Board of Consultants.
Ashley Montagu also is a part of the SEXOLOGY magazine's team. He said
he approves "the demasculinization of the human male" and advocates
what I have preached against from this pulpit again and again and
again. This one-world crowd, this one-church crowd, this one-race
crowd comes eventually .to one-sex crowd. And now they want one sex.
The feminization of the American male. Look around at some of these
fellows, or whatever they are, and you will see it -- wearing their
hair like girls, wearing jewelry like girls. There is a definite
correlation between feminine dress, feminine hair styles and
homosexuality. Hold it. I didn't say that every hippie is a
homosexual. But I say when a nation gets to the place when you can't
tell the men from the women, there is a reason for it.
He says -- Mr. Montagu -- that the feminization of American males
is a step in the right direction.
I have read to you and am reading to you a list of men whose
pictures ought to be in .post offices across America with the word
WANTED underneath them. They are doing more to curse America than the
biggest convict in this nation. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker
couldn't reach the hem of their garments when it comes to destroying
our nation like these are doing.
"How to Publish Dirty Books for Fun and Profit"
Meet Barney Rossit. SIECUS lists Barney Rossit as a source of
information. He has been repeatedly in court because of his
pornography. In the SATURDAY EVENING POST for January 25 he was the
subject of an article, "How to Publish Dirty Books for Fun and
Profit," and he is affiliated with SIECUS, the organization that is
putting sex education in our public schools! He is known for
glorifying communism.
Now here is the one that will curl your hair. Meet Albert Ellis.
Albert Ellis is recommended by SIECUS. He is an oft-married fellow. He
said about religion, "The religious person sells his soul so that he
may feel comfortable with this heavenly helper he has invented."
Another one of your team members! Quote again, "Religion is a needless
inhibition."
Would Debase His Sister, He Says
Meet Albert Ellis. Albert Ellis advocates free sex and
homosexuality. He made this statement. I hate to read it, but I am
going to, leaving out just one word: "If I were stuck on a desert
island with my sister, I would almost surely ######### and let the
chips fall where they may." Yes, meet Albert Ellis. He says, "Religion
is a form of mental sickness."
I hold in my hand a copy of the HAMMOND TIMES, Section B, Sunday,
May 25, 1969. "Symposium Schedule, Hammond. Six top men in the field
of psychology are scheduled to take part in the second Symposium of
human growth and development in October. The second Symposium is being
sponsored by the psychology department of Hammond schools. Emotional
Education is the subject of Dr. Albert Ellis .... Five of the six
sessions will be held in Morton High School Auditorium." This is not
in California; it is in Hammond. Dr. Albert Ellis is speaking at
Morton School. He said, "If I were stuck on a desert island with my
sister, I would almost surely ####### and let the chips fall where
they may." "Religion is a form of mental sickness." "Homosexuality is
all right." "The religious person sells his soul so that he may feel
comfortable with this heavenly helper he has invented." "Religion is a
needless inhibition."
Listen! If it is illegal to read this blessed Book, the Bible, in
the public schools, it ought to be as equally illegal to have an
atheist and a sex pervert like this to feed the minds of our boys and
girls rotten filth. I say that if it is wrong in the public schools to
say the Bible is true, then it is wrong to say it is false. Either
have both sides to present or leave it alone. You say, "I don't like
the way you are preaching." But you don't mind the Rap Browns and the
Stokely Carmichaels getting up and shouting, do you? It is time some
decent people started speaking up. Well, Dr. Albert Ellis is coming to
our city.
Meet Dr. Joseph Fletcher, recommended by SIECUS, who said, "For me,
there are no rules at all." He was cited by the House Un-American
Activities Committee as the sponsor and supporter of the Communist
Party. Herbert Philbrick was a secret agent of the F.B.I. who ran with
communists for years. He says he worked with Joseph Fletcher actively
in the Communist Party. Fletcher is one of the SIECUS team.
I could go on and on and on. I could call off thirty or forty-five
names of other men who have this same affiliation and the same
perverted, indecent, vulgar minds as these men. Now, whether you
believe it or not, or like it or not, when you have a meeting with
your school board concerning sex education, though many of them do not
even know it, this is the thing that they are promoting, and these are
the men whose literature your children will be reading.
How the Sex Education Program Works
What is their program? If you lived in Palo Alto, California, your
child in kindergarten would very likely come home and say, "Mama,
guess what happened today at school? .... What happened? .... The
teacher borrowed a little boy baby and a girl baby and bathed them in
front of our class today to show the difference." That is a part of
their program.
If you lived in San Diego, California, your child would receive
seventeen lessons on sex in the schools. Slides would be shown to the
sixth grade, roving teachers would go from school to school giving
five days of lectures. Get this. Your child would see a Walt Disney
animated cartoon entitled "The Story of Menstruation."
If you lived in Anaheim, California, your child would go to a
school system superintended by Mr. Paul Cook. Mr. Cook said, "Not long
ago they would have hanged me from the nearest.telephone pole for what
I am doing now." He said, "God-centered religion in passé." And yet
ninety-two per cent of the parents in Anaheim, California, voted to
stand solidly behind what he is doing -- the SIECUS program.
A news reporter named John Steinbacker asked a Marine one day on
the streets of Anaheim why the Marines all came to Ariahelm on a
weekend. Now Anaheim is the show place of SIECUS. Ariaheim,
California, is the place where SIECUS has done more dirt than any
other place, I think. The Marine's answer to that question was, "Man,
everybody knows that high school girls are available here!" I wonder
why?
Kirkendall, whose name I mentioned awhile ago, said, "Just sneak it
in." What? Sex education. "Go to the PTA. That is where the power
lies." And, by the way, let me say a word about them. There is a
magazine called the PTA magazine that is going to answer to God for a
lot of the rot in America. "Go to the PTA. There is where the power
lies." Now get this. This is an above board way to do it. "Don't say
you are going to start a sex education course. Say that you are going
to enrich and expand and make it better. And sneak it in." Then
Kirkendall advised to get a group of leading businessmen, doctors,
lawyers -- and form a committee. Get them to endorse it, then you can
sneak it in better.
Ladies and gentlemen, what is happening in America is the same
thing that happened in Spain, in Russia, in Greece and other nations.
They have leveled their attack at the next generation. And we have
bowed down before the god of secular education so long that our youth
have been sorely affected.
Supreme Court Struck Down Decent Laws
Against Pornography
You say, "Preacher, who is the main offender?" Now hang on to your
seats for we are really going to ride rough for a minute. I think I
see a Texas 'norther' coming up! The main offenders on whose hands
rests the blood of America more than any other men are those on the
Supreme Court. Earl Warren and his cohorts have opened the door to
allow such filth to become respectable.
I have -- and I am not going to show them but I am just going to
tell you what it is -- I have two pictures here that are used in sex
training. One picture shows two dogs together, and I won't say
anything else. The next picture shows a man and woman in bed together.
In Chicago was shown a movie on sex education. Out of 3,200
students, sixteen refused to see the film, and they were branded by
the SATURDAY EVENING POST as fundamentalists from the hills of West
Virginia. Now you can say what you want to say, brother, but I would
rather be an ignorant fundamentalist from the hills of West Virginia
who couldn't even write my name nor wear shoes on my feet, than to be
so smart I thought I knew more than God Almighty!
I thank God that in the State of Louisiana the legislature there
voted ninety-four to four to make it illegal to teach sex in the
public school system unless it was approved by every parent of every
child. There are a lot of God-fearing, decent American citizens who
still have some integrity and character left in these places that are
being sold off to you by the news media as bigots, and that is just
not so.
There are still a lot of counties in America where they have voted
dry and you can't buy beer. The county I pastored in Texas for almost
seven years was dry. You couldn't even buy a bottle of beer. Some
300,000 people lived in the area where I grew up and it was as dry as
a bone. You couldn't buy a bottle of beer anywhere in that area. We
voted liquor out every year in the town where I pastored in Texas. The
town only had 28,000 people, and 4,000 of them belonged to my church,
one out of seven! And every time we voted liquor down they would say,
"It was those Bible-tot'n' Baptists!" Amen!
What are the results? Venereal disease is reaching almost epidemic
proportions in our country. You don't hear much about this. SIECUS
won't publish this. They won't put this in the movies. Eighty thousand
reported cases in America in !966, and who knows how many thousands of
others! A seventy per cent increase over 1956. In one year, 90,000
unwed teen-age mothers. Teen-age marriages have risen 500 per cent,
and teen-age divorces are three times the proportion to divorces of
those twenty-one and over.
Here is the sad part. You and I are paying for it. The United
States government last year invested 1.5 million dollars to promote
this program in thirteen school districts across this nation. You and
I are paying for it. Now the honest truth is, it is morally wrong to
teach another's children religious convictions. Did you hear what I
said ? It is morally wrong. Now it is not morally wrong to read the
Bible. But it is morally wrong to teach your religious convictions to
somebody else's child unless that parent approves.
Now listen. Mr. Kinsey said, in his report that came out some year:
ago, that the greatest influence on morals is religion. If that be so,
sail by one of their own group, that means that when you teach
another's child or you allow your child to be taught by another, the
subject of sex, they are teaching your child something that is
prompted by religious convictions. And it is wrong for our public
school system to put our children at the mercy of just whoever happens
to be teaching biology this year.
WHAT CAN PEOPLE DO?
Now what can we do? I have skipped a lot, but what can we do?
One. Check on your child. I am going to ask you a question. How
many people in this house have children in school? Yes. Many of you
do. Another question: How many of you have taken time to read as many
as ten pages of any book this year that was required reading for your
child at school? Will you be honest and raise your hand? Now there
is your trouble. Not one-tenth of the people who have children in
school even check what the child is reading.
They showed a sex film in a certain school in this area. I think
there were six children who didn't see it, and these went to a room
together. And five of them belonged to First Baptist Church of
Hammond!
You say, "But how about our church?" Listen. Unless your preacher
barks as loud as I do on the subject, folks won't hear him. Look. I
had a little run-in with a teacher -- not a serious one; in fact, I
probably have as good relation with the teachers of my children as
anybody in this area could have. Our kids are required to write notes
of gratitude to their teachers every year, and we do our best to keep
our relationship wholesome between the school and this church and this
preacher. But I was talking with a certain teacher about a rule, and
the teacher said, "You have no say in it. Your child is ours when she
is at school."
And I said, "You hear me, and you hear me well. I don't care if she
is at school or at the zoo, she is my child, And you've got a battle
on your hands if you think she is your child because she is at
school." And I repeated, "You hear me, and you hear me well. You are
going to respect our religious convictions, or I am taking it to the
Supreme Court of America."
She said, "I have neither the time nor the money to do that."
I said, "I have the time and I will raise the money."
Check on your child. Stand up, be different. Good night! What is
wrong with Christian people in this area! Take a stand. Well, you say,
"I am afraid little Johnny will be embarrassed." It wasn't easy on
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you know. Daniel was not the most
popular boy in the Senior class. When Paul was stoned outside Lystra,
he wasn't elected "the boy most likely to succeed." He wasn't on his
way to the Senior Prom. What's Wrong with Christians believing
something, living by it, standing by it, dying for it! Stand for
something.
Good night! You Methodists, stand for something! You Presbyterians,
stand for something! You Episcopalians, stand!
I heard a story about folks who went to Heaven. And they saw a
fellow dancing. He was just dancing all over Heaven and he had a bunch
of folks with him. People asked, "What are those folks doing?" And St.
Peter said, "That's Hyles and First Baptist." "Well, what are they
dancing for?" He said, "They didn't get to dance on earth, so they are
living it up, up here!"
They saw a bunch of folks baptizing -- I mean just down up, down
up, down up, down up, baptizing, baptizing. "Who are they?" asked the
inquisitive one. And St. Peter said, "They are Methodists. They never
did baptize on earth, and they are having a time baptizing up here."
Over in the corner were some people just sitting, bored to tears.
And the guest asked, "Who are those people doing nothing?" St. Peter
answered, "They are Ecumenicals. There ain't nothing they didn't do on
earth!"
Stand for something! There are enough Bible-believers in the
Calumet region to change some things if we stand. Stand!
You say, "How do we do it?" Well, one way is this way. Walk up to
the teacher and say courteously and kindly, "I am not here to cause
trouble, but I am here to say that my child cannot participate in
this, which is against our religious convictions." Now ninety per cent
of the teachers are the kind of folks who will let your child do
something else for credit. And it is time somebody stood toe to toe
with the other ten per cent and slugged it out. Stand! Good night!
Young people, stand! stand!
God Has a Payday for All Who Stand True
We Christian people tonight stand on the blood of martyrs who died
for what we believe. People have been burned at the stake for this old
Book. People have been dragged to death in the streets, with their
brains dashed out on the rocks, for this old Book. People have put
their heads in the guillotine, and had their heads severed from their
bodies, for this old Book. People have been stripped naked and boiled
in hot water until they died, for this old Book. People have been
thrown to the lions in Rome, thousands of them, for this old Book.
People have shed their blood, had their tongues cut out, had their
eyeballs plucked out with sharp pincers; people have been dragged to
death, beaten to death, stoned to death; people have been gassed and
suffered every form of martyrdom in the world; people have lost their
lives, their families, their homes -- everything so you and I would
have the Book. Now let's do something about standing for it, too.
Must I be carried to the skies
On flow'ry beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed thro' bloody seas?
Sure I must fight, if l would reign;
Increase my courage, Lord;
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by Thy Word.
And when the battle's over,
We shall wear a crown,
We shall wear a crown,
Yes, we shall wear a crown;
And when the battle's over,
We shall wear a crown
In the new Jerusalem!
What difference does it make if we are hated here. I am called
everything a man could be called. I am lied about, gossiped about, and
hated, and cussed, and folks won't speak to me on the streets. But I
will tell you one thing, brother, when I walk down the golden streets
of the New Jerusalem, Peter and Paul will speak to me. I will tell you
another thing: those of us who stand for decency and those of us who
stand for the Bible, and those of us who stand for what is right and
against what is wrong, one of these days they will put on a parade for
us. Some of you little mealy-mouthed Christians who never did stand,
and folks didn't criticise you, up in Heaven you will have to borrow
money for a shoeshine. You didn't stand. Stand! Stand! It wouldn't be
so hard on some of the kids to stand if all the kids would stand.
How many times have things like this come up and I have called the
teacher and spoken kindly and I mean it. When I get in personal
conversation with people, I do my best to be kind. That is the honest
truth. Don't you go up to school and preach like I am preaching now.
This is my pulpit and the signs say FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH and you
didn't pay to get it. You come to my house and visit me and I will
just romp and stomp all I want to. It is my territory, and I own it.
Not the whole church, but this up here is mine, deeded to me. I have
told the deacons, "You can have all the church you want, but from
right over here in this corner to over here in this corner belongs to
me, and no board, no deacon, no organization, no denomination will
tell me what to say behind this pulpit." I feel sure some of you are
going to choke before you leave! We had better stand so you can
breathe a bit! A lot of you folk never heard a prophet before. To
stand true whatever the people think -- many of you have never heard
that before. And that is to your disgrace. Your boys and girls ought
to be growing up in a church that stands for something. The Apostle
Paul wrote to a young preacher and said, "And having done all, Stand."
Back Up Bible-Believing Pastors and Churches
Number two. Get your family into an old-fashioned,
Bible-preaching church, where an old-fashioned Bible preacher can
build their faith in the Word of God.
But you say, "Brother Hyles, Granddad belonged to the church that I
belong to now. They don't believe the Bible, but I hate to leave
Granddad's old church." If Granddad were alive, he wouldn't set foot
in it now, if it doesn't believe the Bible. Get in a Bible-believing,
Bible-preaching church that has conviction that will instill in your
boys and girls decency.
Number three. Get good books for your children to read. My
boy David is a freshman in high school. Tonight he rode to church with
me. David was quiet and I hadn't said anything. He had a book, and I
said, "David, what are you reading?" It was called, I think, The
Best of Billy Sunday. I didn't make him read it. He just has good
books around his room. We give him good books.
Number four. Oppose SIECUS in your public school system.
Oppose it. I mean, let your vote be counted. Oppose it.
Number five. Get in a church that preaches anti-communism,
anti-socialism, and decency. I picked up my newspaper one day and I
could not believe what I saw. A pastor in this area was lauded and was
proud that he uses the PLAYBOY magazine as text for his sermon. If you
go there, God pity you! And God pity him, when he stands before God.
And instead of laughing, you ought to be crying about it. I would
rather be a bootlegger when I stand before the bar of God, than be a
preacher who preaches from PLAYBOY magazine. And I hope to my soul
that he is here tonight. God pity him! Have you ever heard of the
Bible?
Be Faithful S. S. Teachers
Number six. Sunday school teachers, we have a big battle --
a big battle. Son, you on the end, will you come up here? What is your
name? Gabriel? Gabriel? I have read about you in the Bible. You blow a
horn, don't you! How is Michael doing? This little fellow is good
looking, isn't he -- for a boy. Boys are made out of rats, and snails,
and puppy dog tails. Did you know that? Is this little boy going to
have to sit under SIECUS? Of course, he doesn't have to, because his
parents can keep him from it. You say he will flunk. But he will pass
in Heaven. If he has to sit under that kind of program five days a
week, and you are his Sunday school teacher, God pity you if you just
go out of town because you want to go out of town for the weekend
every once in awhile, and this boy goes without your teaching on the
Lord's day. God pity you if you don't spend your life trying to save
this boy. You say Amen to me, yet you teach boys and girls in Sunday
school and you won't come forty Sundays a year. Now put your money
where your mouth is. Dedicate yourself tonight to say, "By the grace
of God, my boys and girls need the best teaching I can give them, and
I will do it."
Thank you, little fellow. See there. "You are welcome." He learned
that in Sunday school. Didn't you? "Yes, Sir." Did you hear that? That
is the kind of boys we grow. Our Sunday school teachers dedicate
themselves to combating evil. Give yourself to your class. Choir
directors of children's choirs and folks who work with youth groups,
dedicate yourselves by the grace of God to do your best.
Contacting Sword of the Lord
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