"The church is more knowledgeable about human sexuality as it even has a lot of documents about it more than what our congressmen might actually have," he pointed out.
Quitorio also noted that the church has been giving sex education to Catholic schools.
"Actually the church has long been giving sex education to Catholic schools and these bishops have been presidents or owners of these schools," he explained.
However, the CBCP official said compared to the sex education being pushed by pro-Reproductive Health (RH) bill lawmakers, the sex education being given by the Catholic Church focuses on human sexuality.
Early this week, Akbayan party-list Representative Ana Theresia Hontiveros, one of the principal authors of the controversial bill, appealed to the bishops to undergo orientation on reproductive health and observe sex education sessions that the program seeks to institutionalize.
"There is nothing insidious in the use of artificial contraceptives and in the conduct of sex education for adolescents. What the bill hopes to do is promote public health - to inform young Filipinos about the dangers of irresponsible sex, to give mothers choices on how they wish to manage their families and avoid unwanted pregnancies, and more importantly, prevent the death of hundreds of Filipino women because of abortion," she said.
The lawmaker's proposal was made in response to the call of the CBCP for more dialogue with them on the measure which is pending in Congress.
The CBCP in its pastoral statement entitled "Standing up for the Gospel of Life," said that House Bill 5043 is unacceptable in its present form. (FP/Sunnex)
