The Coalition for Marriage have produced a booklet which indicates that if the “Equal Marriage Bill” is passed schools would have a legal requirement to teach about “same-sex marriage”.
Section 403(1A)(a) of the Education Act 1996 imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to “issue guidance” to ensure that pupils “learn the nature of marriage and its importance for family life and the bringing up of children” as part of sex education.This is obviously far more serious than the right of teachers to object on an individual basis. This would affect all the nation’s children. The C4M booklet gives a number of sample pages from books such as "Daddy's Roommate", "Hello Sailor", "Josh and Jaz have Three Mums" etc. They are aimed at young children. Here is a link to download a copy of the booklet.
If the legal definition of marriage changes, the law will require that children learn about gay marriage as part of sex education...
With materials that might be put before secondary school pupils, we are in a bind because some of it is too disgusting to detail. It is more important than ever that parents insist on seeing exactly what materials are shown to their children, whether in school - or outside school by agencies that have gained trust (and contact details of young people) by being invited into the school. From a link in Laurence England's excellent post Schools and Same-Sex Marriage, I have just read a booklet from the Terence Higgins Trust which I wish I had never seen. "Called The Bottom Line. All you'll ever need to know about your arse and his." it gives detailed instructions on various forms of anal sex along with the diseases and injuries that commonly result from it - as though these are just hazards we have to accept in life.
The THT has a page asking "Why should Terrence Higgins Trust come to my school?" If you are a teacher opposed to same-sex marriage or a parent who wants their child protected from such instructional material, you may soon be unable to ask that question without legal consequences.
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The simple solution is to not use the public schools. Children should not be in them. Homeschool is a perfectly viable alternative for those who make it a priority. Parish schools can sometimes be difficult to afford. This sort of thing is a cry to dioceses to make parish school more accessible.
Levi - in Britain, there are Catholic schools where the education is paid for by the State and parents do not have to pay. However, they will be put under pressure to teach gay "marriage" as a "choice" alongside natural marriage. If the Bill is passed this will be our next battle. Many of our Catholic seconday Schools have a majority of non-Catholic teachers. In the USA, Obama will have a harder fight to impose the gay agenda on parochial schools. But I bet he will try.
Is anyone else wondering why this is happening so fast without a mandate from the people? It is almost as if the evil one has got his cloven foot in the door.
As to education, my long view, being in education most of my life, is that taking money from the government ruins the independence Catholics need in order to be free from such immoral tyranny.
Governments tamper with education in order to create a compliant citizenry which will easily be enslaved. Bismarck, Dewey, Gramsci et al realized that the way to destroy a culture was to take over the educational systems.
I have a teaching certification from the National Association of Private and Independent Catholic Schools in America. Sadly, such a concept is rare if not totally non-existent in Britain. Sad, too, is the fact that the teachers here have not been asked to make the oath and promise which was suggested by Blessed John Paul II. Some English priests I have talked to had never heard of it http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfoath.htm
I wish I could be positive, but we have lost the culture war in America as of the last presidential election. I cannot say whether it is lost here as of yet.
We must always keep on trying, however.
For reasons of moral conscience, we must separate School and State.
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