Gove Rejects Call to Ban Catholic Booklet From [Catholic] Schools [UK]

The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 2/23/12 | Madeleine Teahan

[marshmallow]

The Education Secretary Michael Gove has defended the right of Catholic schools to promote Church teaching on homosexuality following a complaint from Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).

Mr Barber had written to Mr Gove complaining that the distribution of “homophobic material” in some classrooms in Lancashire undermined equality laws.

In response, Mr Gove said that the content of a curriculum was not covered by the Equality Act, but added that any berating or harassing of gay pupils would be unlawful.

He said: “The education provisions of the Equality Act which prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their protected characteristics (including their sexual orientation) do not extend to the content of the curriculum. Any materials used in sex and relationship education lessons, therefore, will not be subject to the discrimination provisions of the act.”

Mr Gove added: “If a school conveyed its beliefs in a way that involved haranguing, harassing or berating a gay or lesbian pupil or group of pupils then this would be unacceptable in any circumstances and is likely to constitute unlawful discrimination.”

Mr Barber described Mr Gove’s reaction as “alarming” and said that the distribution of “homophobic material” undermines a school’s legal duty to challenge all forms of prejudice.

He told the Observer: “Having written to the Education Secretary to express our worry about the distribution of homophobic literature in faith schools, his lack of concern is very alarming.”

Mr Barber wrote to the Education Secretary in December expressing objections to the distribution of a booklet on sexuality throughout Catholic schools in Lancashire.

[marshmallow]

Note that the leader of the Trade Union Congress, a powerful organization in the UK, wants to prevent Catholic schools from promoting Catholic doctrine.

[GeronL]

I hear there are Catholic schools that have Muslim prayer services these days in the UK

[JudgemAll]

In response, Mr Gove said that the content of a curriculum was not covered by the Equality Act, but added that any berating or harassing of gay pupils would be unlawful.

As usual no mention of the sexual harassment those "gays" received, peer pressures and the self harassment type mental illness and cowardice induced by gayness, which is by and large a complete state of mental phobia and inability to communicate normaly.

[iowamark]

The booklet in question, Jason Evert's: Pure Manhood: How to Become the Man God Wants You to Be is available for $2.95 from Catholic Answers or Amazon.

"How to Become the Man God Wants You to Be

Every day boys and young men are bombarded with messages and images that encourage them to make sexual impurity a way of life. And since it looks like so much fun, they can easily be made to feel as if they’re foolishly missing out on something really great.

However, Jason Evert’s Pure Manhood will help them to see things in a new light. Best of all, it will give them the spiritual tools they need to stay pure—or to return to purity.

Evert also answers the most common questions boys have about women, sex, and dating, including…

• How far is too far?
• What’s wrong with just thinking about it?
• What’s wrong with porn? You’re not hurting anyone.
• What if it’s just a swimsuit magazine?
• If she’s willing to do it, why is it wrong?
• What about safe sex?
• Shouldn’t I be free to do whatever I want?
• How do I stay pure?

Pure Manhood will be a priceless gift to both the young men who read it and to their future families.

Public School version also available."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If the government, Hollywood, liberals all get together and declare $#it sandwiches to be healthy, does that make it so?

We know what is not right or not natural and all the laws passed by the leftists cannot change it.