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Primary School Teachers 'Could Face Sack' For Refusing To Promote Gay Marriage [Faith Schools Too!]
Telegraph(UK) ^ | November 18, 2012 | John Bingham

Posted on 11/18/2012 10:27:16 AM PST by Steelfish

Primary School Teachers 'Could Face Sack' For Refusing To Promote Gay Marriage

By John Bingham 18 Nov 2012 Liz Truss, an education minister, refused to rule out the possibility that teachers, even in faith schools, could face disciplinary action for objecting on grounds of conscience.

Miss Truss said simply that it was impossible to know what the impact of the legislation would be at this stage.

Her admission came in a letter to a fellow Conservative MP, David Burrowes, last month.

Mr Burrowes, a practising Christian, originally wrote to Maria Miller, the equalities minister, raising concerns about the impact on schools of the Coalition’s plans to change the marriage laws.

It followed the publication of a legal opinion by Aidan O’Neill QC, a barrister in the same London chambers as Cherie Blair, commissioned by the Coalition for Marriage, which campaigns against same-sex unions.

Mr O’Neill, an expert on human rights, was asked to advise on the impact redefining marriage to include same-sex couples could have on schools, churches, hospitals, foster carers and public buildings. Among his conclusions was that schools could be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who wilfully fail to use stories or textbooks promoting same-sex weddings.

Parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children would also have no right to withdraw their child from lessons, he argued. And, in theory, the fact that a school was a faith school would make no difference, he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes
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To: TheOldLady

You’re just as well that you couldn’t get into their heads. If you had, it would feel like you had visited a sewer, naked.


81 posted on 11/19/2012 6:42:21 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: TheOldLady

that’s a cool hot horse


82 posted on 11/19/2012 6:43:40 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: paglia444

No gay people are walking into my room.


83 posted on 11/19/2012 6:50:01 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (There goes the dominoes...)
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To: paglia444
but I’m surprised at how small-minded and simplistic people get when a gay person walks into the room.

Well, bye then.


84 posted on 11/19/2012 6:57:38 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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To: TheOldLady

Figured this one was for the grill.


85 posted on 11/19/2012 6:59:16 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Very true, and almost completely this goes under the radar.


86 posted on 11/19/2012 7:17:16 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: paglia444; TheOldLady

87 posted on 11/19/2012 7:23:37 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: TheOldLady; paglia444


88 posted on 11/19/2012 7:38:44 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Be my guest. I share.


89 posted on 11/19/2012 9:58:31 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Venturer
I will never understand how queers attained the power they now hold.

They use terror tactics. If a person or a business speaks out against them they rally and apply pressure on that person/business.

They also do not use homos in their ads on TV, they use normal actors or atheletes so as to appear non threatening.

We have to fight back by letting everyone know that they are after the children. Use these articles to email everyone you know.

IMost people are unaware that this is happening. The first they will hear is from their kids when it is already to late and laws are already in place.

90 posted on 11/19/2012 9:59:38 AM PST by USAF80
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To: Psalm 144

Pretty blatant on this thread. He or she came “out of the closet” apparently, after lying low for a couple of months.


91 posted on 11/19/2012 10:00:57 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: paglia444; humblegunner; TheOldLady

Rumor has it that you’re the only person to have surrendered offering no resistance whatsoever in the “How many Justin Biebers could you take in a fight?” test.

In fact as the story goes, you are said to have rum and hid at the very mention of a single, slightly irritated Bieber approaching and that you were rejected as an applicant for the role of “Surrogate Bieber” in his Fighting Bieber Swarm.

The only regrettable thing about your zotting is that now we can only torment you in absentia, rather than watch as you wither and cry your little girly tears.


92 posted on 11/19/2012 10:02:13 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: humblegunner

Okay, Gunner, Sir!


93 posted on 11/19/2012 10:03:17 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Oh Lordy! I used to like Aquaman!


94 posted on 11/19/2012 10:04:26 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: shibumi; humblegunner

Well, I can beat 30 Biebers!

I bet Gunner can beat 50.


95 posted on 11/19/2012 10:07:40 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

Not YOU, dammit!


96 posted on 11/19/2012 10:08:08 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: TheOldLady; shibumi
"Don't give me a beating..."


97 posted on 11/19/2012 10:11:41 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: TheOldLady; humblegunner

I got a 34.

It appears the upper limit on the Bieber Swarm is around 35 - 40. But we could give Gunner credit for five or six Biebers fleeing the scene before actual contact.


98 posted on 11/19/2012 10:15:35 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: humblegunner

LOL! OH! Okay. It was pretty easy though... Not being gay...


99 posted on 11/19/2012 10:15:41 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: humblegunner; shibumi

Awww... Justy wants a kiss. Poor little guy.

Don’t hit him too hard.


100 posted on 11/19/2012 10:17:30 AM PST by TheOldLady
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