Bureau KEP: wellness education violates all legislation
date:14 May 2025 Editor: Anna
Members of the KEP Bureau point out that the imagination of sexuality and sex present in wellness education is incompatible with the Polish legal system. "The Constitution clearly stresses that marriage, family, motherhood and paternity stay under state protection. In addition, there are a number of provisions in education law requiring state institutions to do family-friendly activities."
Bishops indicate that Polish law explicitly accepts the existence of 2 genders: male and female. "The Church teaches that sexuality is to service marital love and parenthood, that matrimony and household are complete in the full love of God's will, that manhood and femininity are contained in God's creative work."
"Introduction into schools, alleged wellness education violates all specified laws, and in the long word it aims to change Polish law – to anti-family law and destabilizing sex," they admit. "This imagination clearly destroys the foundation of education. This goal is besides intended to reduce spiritual lessons at school illegally."
We print the full text of the Bureau's letter:
Letter from the Bureau of the Polish Episcopal Conference on a fresh subject wellness education
Dear Sisters and Brothers!
Children request their parents' love, concern and protection from all kinds of threats. From 1 September 2025, a fresh subject: wellness Education will be introduced to schools in place of a liquidated raising for household life. Parents will be able to decide whether their kid is to participate or not.
Some media propaganda emphasizes that wellness education is about the wellness of students, but in an crucial part of it this subject contains content on alleged sexual health, which aims at a complete change in the perception of household and love.
The subject of sexuality within wellness education is separated from the context of matrimony and family. matrimony is almost absent and the household – understood as a father, parent and children – is completely marginalized. However, where it is referred to, it is presented in a negative context, and motherhood is shown as a origin of threats. This perception of human sexuality threatens the appropriate improvement of a individual kid and puts the demographic future of our country at stake. According to the fresh subject, students are to be erotic from an early age. Sexual activity has been separated from matrimony and is presented as liberation from all barriers, including age limits and work for its effects. The criterion of informed consent was considered to be the only condition for sexual intercourse.
Health education introduces sex concept into the school. It does not support young people in accepting their biological gender. Rather, it encourages children and youths to reject their femininity or masculinity. This opens the way for girls to identify as boys and boys to identify as girls. This kind of recognition is prompted by the concept of "sex identity" and "legal and social issues of LGBTQ+ groups present in the programme basis". Ultimately, specified a way can lead to an operation of ‘gender change’, or irreversible mutilation of the body of young people and a large tragedy for themselves and their families.
The imagination of sexuality and sex present in wellness Education is incompatible with the Polish legal system. The Constitution clearly emphasises that marriage, family, motherhood and paternity stay under state protection. In addition, there are a number of provisions in education law requiring state institutions to act as household members. Polish law explicitly accepts the existence of 2 genders: male and female. Introduced to schools. wellness education violates all specified legislation, and in the long word it aims to change Polish law – to anti-family law and destabilizing gender. This imagination clearly destroys the foundation of upbringing. This goal is besides intended to reduce spiritual lessons at school. The Church teaches that sexuality is to service marital love and parenthood, that matrimony and household are complete in the full love of God's will, that manhood and femininity are included in God's creative work.
Dear Parents! The future of the children is in your hands. Remember that you are in the conscience of God for their appropriate upbringing. You must not accept the systemic depravity of your children, which is to be conducted under the pretext of alleged wellness education. For the sake of upbringing and salvation, we urge you not to consent to your children's participation in these immoral activities.
We bless the efforts of our parenting work from the heart
+ Tadeusz Wojda SAC, Archbishop of Gdańsk Metropolitan, president of the Polish Episcopal Conference
+ Józef Kupny, Archbishop of Wroclaw Metropolitan, Deputy president of the Polish Episcopal Conference
+ Marek Marczak, Secretary General of the Polish Episcopal Conference
