Secularists: Stop kids being ‘retarded by religion’, teach them about LGBT issues
from The Christian Institute:
Young people should be forced to learn about homosexual relationships in school with no right of withdrawal from lessons, the National Secular Society (NSS) has said.
Writing in the Huffington Post, NSS Campaigns Director Stephen Evans said allowing religious parents to take their children out of lessons which undermine their beliefs is ‘unacceptable’.
He was responding to Government plans for statutory Relationships Education in primary schools, and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in secondary schools, outlined last week.
No withdrawal
It is feared that both subjects could include teaching on homosexual and bisexual relationships, as well as same-sex parenting and same-sex marriage.
The Government has made clear that primary-level Relationships Education will include no parental right of withdrawal. Secondary-level RSE is likely to uphold this right.
However the NSS, whose campaign goal is to achieve “freedom of & from religion”, believes parents should be powerless to protect their children from secondary lessons as well.
‘Retarded by religion’
Evans wrote: “The Government’s ‘21st century relationships and sex education’ will not be worthy of that billing if it allows young people’s rights to be retarded by religion.”
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