Thus said Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on Family and Life (CBCP-ECFL) chairman Archbishop Paciano Aniceto.

The Pampanga prelate was reacting to recent attempts by the Department of Education (DepEd) to quietly "smuggle" into various high school subjects the teaching of sex education under the cloak of Adolescent Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights.

"What is information for one may be a corruption of the others," Aniceto said. While the information may be helpful to some, it may be an outright ‘child abuse’ against others in a class," the bishop said.

"Although the students may be of similar age, their exposures to sex and related matters are never the same," he said.

He also said that no parent would like to see his or her children scandalized by the language and terms employed in the module.

The Catholic Church, he said, believes that sex education "is the sole right and responsibility of parents and no excuse or alibi can justify the public teaching of sex by strangers."

Parents, he said, should also stress to their kids that sex should only be done within the context of marriage and "not as an extra-curricular activity."

"Sexuality must be taught in the context of the marital union, not as a mere subject in a classroom which is devoid of values, and as part of the children’s maturation in the family," he said.

Aniceto said parents should not feel uncomfortable in teaching their children about sex, saying parents should consider the task "as part and parcel of their (children’s) internalization of family values."

Human sexuality, he said, is not only about sex and reproduction because even without classroom education or the modules from DepEd, even animals and plants are able to reproduce themselves.

And since there are parents who still do not know how to teach their children about the subject matter, the ECFL, Aniceto said, has urged the government to develop modules that would prepare parents for the task of teaching their children about sex.

"Even the Constitution guarantees parents this right (to teach their children)," Aniceto said. "This right cannot be superseded by any artificially concocted rights like reproductive rights," he said.

"We cannot condone the mindless shortcuts to indoctrinate our children about sex," Aniceto added.