Homosexuality Taught at School?

Should Schoolkids Learn About Gays?

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A research project has recommended that schoolkids should be actively taught about gays, tolerance and same-sex relationships in primary school, "creating primary classrooms where queer sexualities are affirmed and celebrated."

There has been some controversy over people associated with the No Outsiders Project attending a university seminar which, it has been claimed, aims to take further the discussion of not only teaching about awareness and tolerance in schools, but getting more into the specifics of homosexuality.

There has been a furious reaction from some groups, with Simon Calvert of the Christian Institute saying, "When an adult who is working in a primary school suggests that children should explore their sexuality, that should result in a complaint to the police."

"The seminar is part of a long-standing academic debate and has nothing to do with schools. It has no connection with sex education," Dr Atkinson said.

A British law banning the "promotion" of homosexuality at schools was repealed five years ago, allowing the discussion of gays to legitimately enter into the sex education curriculum.

Source: DNA Magazine