Posted on 12/29/2006 8:33:07 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
Schools that fail to show enthusiasm in rooting out prejudice against homosexuals should be reported to the police by pupils and parents, a Home Office report recommended yesterday.
It called for parents and children to identify schools that ignore "homophobic" language in the playground and teachers who produce "homophobic" lessons.
And it called for head teachers to bring lessons about "homophobia" on to school timetables and to involve their pupils in gay "awareness weeks".
The advice from Home Secretary John Reid's officials comes at a time of deep concern among churches that new gay rights laws due next spring will bar traditional teaching on sexual morality in schools and force them instead to include gay rights dogma in lessons.
The paper on "homophobic hate crime" is aimed at guiding police forces, local authorities, social services and schools among other public bodies.
It defined homophobia - a word invented by gay lobby groups to apply to their critics - as "resentment, or fear, of gay and lesbian people" which "can be just a passive dislike of gay people".
The report asked police and other groups to consider whether homophobia is happening in schools and in lessons.
It said: "Schools can be a little concerned about a negative impact on their reputation, that it would be perceived as a school which has problems rather than one which deals with them positively."
Urging that school incidents be reported to a "hate crime co-ordinator", the report said: "It would be dangerous to assume that homophobic incidents to not occur in a particular school as victims and witnesses might be too worried or frightened to bring the abuse to greater attention."
It called for reporting systems to "allow pupils and parents to make referrals direct if they feel the school is not taking the issue seriously."
The report added: "The seriousness of using homophobic language is not fully appreciated in schools.
"Whilst it is probably made clear to pupils that the use of racist language is unacceptable, the same is not true for use of homophobic language.
"However, constant use of such language and homophobic crimes and incidents will have an effect on pupils' ability to learn, or willingness to stay on in schools."
The Home Office advice also said that "it should be possible to find times working within each year group's timetable to slot in work on citizenship and homophobia".
Home Office minister Tony McNulty said: "Any form of crime motivated by prejudice or hate is unacceptable.
"People who commit homophobic crime need to know their prejudices and actions will be tackled."
He added: "We know that hate crime can get worse if it goes unchallenged. That is why gay people need to feel they can come forward to the police."
The report also contained an endorsement from Lancashire Assistant Chief Constable Michaal Cunningham, who said: "The implementation of this guidance will assist in bringing offenders to justice and making individuals and communities feel safer."
Last week Mr Cunningham's force paid £50,000 in legal costs and damages to an elderly couple, Joe and Helen Roberts, who were questioned in their home by two of its officers after they complained to the local councils about its gay rights policies and asked for a right of reply for their traditional Christian beliefs.
Lancashire police have brought in guidance warning officers to avoid being influenced by political groups because of the case.
Colin Hart of the Christian Institute think tank that backed the Roberts said yesterday: "There is an element of desperation about this advice.
"No-one wants to see any kind of bullying in schools. But this is not about bullying of pupils who others think are homosexual. It is about punishing schools unless they try to stop pupils using "gay" as a perjorative word."
Gay lobby groups are deeply upset about the use of "homophobic" language in schools, partly because of the common use by teenagers of the word 'gay' as an insult regardless of the perceived sexual orientation of the individual they are insulting.
The Home Office guidance also said that gay lobby groups could set up "third party reporting centres" to pass to police details of "homophobic" incidents which gay individuals themselves have been too scared to report to police.
Police should then record the names and details of individuals passed on by gay lobby groups, it said.
That is their intention. It is called "jamming".
Essentially they want you to fear speaking the truth even when in private company.
The feminsts are doing this with they emasculation of the english language. (of course in OTHER languages they have major problems because words have gender).
We also see this in television entertainment where specific pandering quotas have to be done for diversity sake.
somehow it just seems fitting that the 'head' teacher would be worried about faggotry
You don't need a religious view to consider homosexual behavior an abnormality and deviant conduct.
If it were not so, all those hard core felons who are released after decades of prison incarceration would come out of prison as flaming homosexuals. Insead they go to the strip club right across the street from the jail.
This is thought crime pure and simple. There is no longer freedom of speech in Europe or Canada.
People have a right in a free society to believe homosexuality to be immoral and to state such publicly. Freedom of speech means even the right to say something that someone else will find offensive. This is totalitarian thought control pure and simple.
Kids should not verbally bully, threaten, or physically aggress against each other: but this is already proscribed by laws and school regulations against bullying, threats,and assault. The school has not business taking it further and infriging on students right to free association, or even to like or dislike whom they will.
And the school certainly has no business trying to prohibit students (or teachers) from saying that we are a species which reproduces through male-female sexual intercourse, and that the marriages and families which result from male-female pairing are the basis of human society: which is the historic reason why male-female marriage is universally fostered by societies -- across the continents, cultures, and centuries --- and other arrangements are not.
Ideally, if I were to support government-controlled schools, I would do so only if the schools would confine themselves to a few important but sharply limited functions: the handing on of the factual knowledge and skills necessary to gainful employment and civic engagement.
Other than that: "Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!"
The question is, will they enforce this in islamic schools?
Celebration of Diversity bump
The next big thing in public schools: Gay Black Female Transgendered Communist Muslim Awareness Week.
Someone has to stop homoafrogynotrancommuislamophobia.
"More argument for the separation of school from government."
Tell me about it. But this is the only way the libs can abolish freedom of speech. They can't take it away from adults. They're already used to it and wouldn't want it taken away. They have to prevent the next generation from ever experiencing freedom of speech.
"In no way is this thought police. This is a way of teaching society what is and is not acceptable, it might be considered thought control but all education can easily be considered thought control."
I feel sorry for people who feel impelled to use the anus over and over for purposes of sexual gratification. The purpose of the anus is to enable the body to eliminate its waste products. It is not part of the body's sexual system. It is unhealthy to shove large firm objects up the anus. The practice creates little tears in the wall of the anus, thus enabling disease to spread.
Although I believe that all should be treated with respect, homosexuality should be discouraged at least for reasons pertaining to public health. The current campaign to "normalize" homosexuality goes too far.
Britain and turned into a Thought Crime Police State.
I you live in America it must be difficult for you to have to tolerate free speech. If you live in Britain, your statement is perfectly understandable as you're just a sheep in the flock.
Years from now - Islam will have been seen as what saved the West from moral decay.
If there is one thing I hate, it is this smarmy, feminist, FDA-approved political correctness that is infesting the schools, churches, homes, and work places of our great nation.
Continual and violent harassment is one thing, but they need to learn to stop neutering these poor boys and letting them stand on their own two legs.
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