UK Government Program Teaching Four-Year-Olds about Homosexuality

LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/16/07 | Gudrun Schultz

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ENGLAND, United Kingdom, March 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Primary schools in the United Kingdom have begun teaching children as young as four about homosexuality, in anticipation of new anti-discrimination laws coming into effect next month, the Daily Mail reported earlier today.

Homosexuality-themed story books are being used in fourteen schools to introduce the children to the homosexual lifestyle. Among the texts in use are "King and King", a fairy-tale about a prince who rejects three princesses before falling in love with another prince,  "Spacegirl Pukes", about a little girl with two mommies, and "And Tango Makes Three," telling the story of two male penguins who fall in love at a New York zoo.

The schools are participating in a new government-funded program that is aimed at studying the best approach to familiarize school children with homosexual relationships-the study results will be made available to all schools to assist them in utilizing the books to normalize homosexuality.

The £600,000 No Outsiders program also includes workshops for local councils to help with the implementation of the Equality Act banning discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, taking effect April 6.

Christian and pro-family organizations are deeply concerned that the new laws will leave schools vulnerable to lawsuits if they don't incorporate homosexual material into their curriculums. Simon Calvert, spokesman for the Christian Insitute, told the Daily Mail the equality laws will result in schools being "compelled" to promote homosexuality to their students or face litigation.

"The predictions of those who said the repeal of Section 28 would result in the active promotion of homosexuality in schools are coming true," Calvert said, referring to the decision to strike down the law banning promotion of homosexuality in the schools.

Although the Government has persisted in claiming that schools will remain at liberty to determine what they teach, a program leader emphasized the legal requirement to avoid any discrimination against homosexuals.

"The purpose of the project is to support schools in meeting their requirements under the Equality Act," said Dr. Elizabeth Atkinson, lecturer in social and educational inquiry at Sunderland University, "which will require all public institutions to meet the needs of gay and lesbian users."

The Joint Committee on Human Rights, composed of members of Parliament and the House of Lords, issued a report February 26, recommending that religious schools be forced to modify their religious teaching to comply with the sexual orientation regulations.

The report stated that while the regulations "would not prevent pupils from being taught as part of their religious education the fact that certain religions view homosexuality as sinful," schools would not be permitted to teach "a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true."

"We do not consider that the right to freedom of conscience and religion requires the school curriculum to be exempted from the scope of the sexual orientation regulations."

The Christian Voice advocacy group is calling for parents to act, pledging to identify the schools where the books are in use so they can be pressured to remove them from the curriculum.

"The arrogance of people like Elizabeth Atkinson, using children as guinea pigs is outrageous and thoroughly wicked," said director Stephen Green.

"I am astonished at this project and we are trying to find out where these schools are to empower parents to put pressure on them to remove the books."

To politely express concerns to Dr. Atkinson:
elizabeth.atkinson@sunderland.ac.uk

See related LifeSiteNews coverage:

UK: Religious Schools May Not Teach Christian Sexual Morals "As if They Were Objectively True"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07030504.html

Homosexual Activists Target UK Faith Schools, Adoption Policies
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06060203.html

[pandoraou812]

Disgusting & sickening. I don't understand the need to teach children about this cr@p.

[GlasstotheArson]

Don't give them any ideas!! Shhhhhhhh. They might be listening...

[mcvey]

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[mcvey]

Thank you.

[isrul]

Muzzie dogs slaughtering limp wristed degenerates. Not a bad idea in the overall scheme of things.

[scripter]

I'm certainly not defending NAMBLA here, but... the phrase "Sex before 8 or it's too late" isn't from NAMBLA. Rather, it's an old motto of the Rene Guyon Society. Many people incorrectly attribute the motto to NAMBLA... What's the difference between the two groups? I wouldn't know...

[metmom]

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[gidget7]

Sick indeed! And it happens here too, don't doubt it. Yet no prominent pol will speak against it.

[X-FID]

your self important spam is getting old, jedi

This post requires you getting involved?

The forum continues its downward slide.

[Pinkbell]

I don't know why sexual deviancy has to be taught in the schools. It's one thing that society tolerates their behavior, but when they want full blown acceptance, that's another issue. What about bisexuals, transgenders, asexuals, pedophiles, and zoosexuals? Are all these forms going to be taught to children? Those are issues best not discussed by schools but taught at home by families, as these behaviors are not normal or moral.

[wintertime]

I don't know why sexual deviancy has to be taught in the schools.

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I don't know why parents continue to send their children to these schools, especially the fathers.

[Ping-Pong]

Yes it is sick. God teaches us about homosexuality and what He thinks about it. I wonder if they'll teach from that Book?

Rev.22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosover loveth and maketh a lie."

"Dogs" are homosexuals and they are "without the gates into the city" - They will not be with us in eternity, unless they repent. That should be the "lifestyle" they teach.

[Unam Sanctam]

This is frightening. So much for the much vaunted "liberties of Englishmen"...

[caveat emptor]

( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)

Good luck.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Appreciate the link.

Who's Tom Hennesey? And several freepers have pointed out that Christians in the New Testament ate meat--the question is more about little veins in chicken skin and near bones, and red blood cells smeared onto the flesh after bones (with the red blood cell producing bone marrow) are cut up by butchers, and also about insect and shellfish/mollusk products (they have a hemolymph thing).

[saracenkiller]

What kind of sickness is this!!! Why is the western world so completely and utterly degrading itself. Britain is down the drains. sick.