Religious groups mount campaign against teaching about same-sex marriage

Feb 16, 2018 by

by Adi Bloom, tes:

A number of organisations are also calling for sex-education lessons to discuss how marriage can prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease

Religious groups responding to the government’s plans to introduce statutory relationships and sex education from primary school onwards are campaigning against the idea of teaching same-sex marriage.

Some of these groups are also calling for lessons in how marriage can prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections.

Humanists have condemned such attitudes as an affront to the equality and dignity of all people.

The Department for Education’s consultation on the content of the relationships and sex education curriculum closed on Monday. This drew responses from campaigners, teachers and parents, as well as a range of religious groups.

While mainstream religious groups are in favour of statutory sex education, six organisations outside the mainstream have written to the government to express their opposition to the fact that the new relationships and sex education curriculum could include discussion of same-sex marriage and transgender issues.

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