Coalition for Marriage voices disappointment after vote on sex and relationships education in Parliament

Mar 29, 2019 by Jill

from Christian Today:

The Government has been accused of being “obsessed with trying to force ever younger children to learn sex and relationships” after MPs this week approved the expansion of sex and relationship lessons that will teach primary-age school children about LGBTQ relationships.

The draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019 were approved in the Commons on Thursday by 538 votes to 21.

If the regulations are approved by the House of Lords, then from September 2020, primary school children will learn about different forms of family, while lessons for secondary age school will cover sexual orientation and gender identity.

Colin Hart, Chairman of the Coalition for Marriage, said the plans risked “downgrading marriage” while the restrictions on opting children out of the lessons were effectively “sidelining parents”.

He urged education secretary Damian Hinds to “think again” on “imposing these lessons on all”.

“This is a disappointing result that continues the tyranny of the Department for Education, which is obsessed with trying to force ever younger children to learn sex and relationships, even when it is not age appropriate and goes against the wishes of parents,” he said.

“It waters down the importance of marriage, which children should be taught, by traducing the Institution to just one form of many different types of relationship.

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