The Government wants to compel all schools in England to ‘actively promote’ homosexual and transsexual rights, even in schools with a religious ethos.
The Proposed New Independent School Standards are a politically-correct response to the recent ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal. Officials at the Department for Education have taken the opportunity provided by extremism in some Birmingham schools to insist that sodomy and transgender rights should be actively promoted.
As the Proposal says: ‘independent schools are subject to the Equality Act 2010, the only remedy directly provided by that Act is through the Courts; the new standards would allow the Department to take regulatory action against the school for failing to meet them.’
The consultation on The Proposed New Independent School Standards, which would apply to private schools, academies and free schools, closes on Monday 4th August.
For schools run by local education authorities the Government say they will change OFSTED inspection standards to reflect the same position.
The Proposal (at paragraph 1.1c, speaks of ‘fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs; and encourage students to respect other people, with particular regard to the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010;’
But of course the Equality Act 2010 includes ‘gender reassignment’ and ‘sexual orientation’ alongside age, sex, disability, race, religion or belief. A better way of encouraging extremism than forcing Muslim schools to promote transsexuality, sodomy and lesbianism can hardly be imagined.
The Proposal states, at paragraph 3.2.2::
‘The proposed changes to Part 2 are aimed at making it clear to independent schools that the proprietor must actively promote the fundamental British values that are set out in section 1.1(c) above and that schools must actively promote the specified principles, including furthering tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions and encouraging respect for democracy. A minimum approach, for example putting up posters on a notice board and organising an occasional visit to places of worship would fall short of ‘actively promoting’. Schools will be expected to focus on, and be able to show how their work with pupils is effective in embedding fundamental British values. ‘Actively promote’ also means challenging pupils, staff or parents expressing opinions contrary to fundamental British values.’
It goes on to say
‘The new requirement for schools to actively promote principles which encourage respect for persons with protected characteristics (as set out in the Equality Act 2010) is intended to allow the Secretary of State to take regulatory action in various situations: for example … failure to address homophobia…’
Schools will be obliged to challenge the views of parents if they are against “British values” as defined to include the promotion of politically correct groups.
There are stringent new rules on religious tolerance which will mean Christian children being forced to visit mosques, Muslim children to visit Hindu temples, and so on.
Independent schools will have to show Stonewall propaganda videos.
The Proposed New Independent School Standards is an outrageous intrusion into a school’s ethos and family life.
I believe, and fervently hope and pray, that the British and American people, etc are not going to take this lying down forever. I believe, and hope and pray, that large numbers of Western people still know right from wrong, and are fundamentally decent people, who believe in good old-fashioned Judeo-Christian values at heart.
They don’t care what gays do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, but don’t want it promoted and touted as safe and normal, on pain of losing your job, etc if you disagree. They’re quite happy to welcome decent hard-working immigrants if they basically agree with Western values, freedoms etc, but don’t want to be told that their values are offensive to certain minorites and have to constantly live in fear of offending such.
I believe, and hope and pray, that the Western people still retain that steel that saw them fight 2 World Wars for freedom, and I hope and pray that this sleeping lion will one day awake.
Its been prodded and goaded for long enough.
Are any of the men trying to force through this vile legislation among the 660 arrested in past couple of weeks? Or are any amng the 10,000 known but not yet arrested? Submit a Freedom of Informatin request to find out how many of these people are on these lists.
The thought that my 7 grandchildren will be forced as part of their normal education to listen to an active promotion of homosexuality and sodomy in a British School both disgusts and appals me ! As a retired G.P. I am well aware of the serious and dangerous Health Risks of this particular homosexual practice. As a Christian I find it so sad that our once proud Christian Heritage is being gradually eroded away by liberalism and an over zealous application of equality legislation ! Although I personally abhor such homosexual practices and on the basis of Holy Scripture consider it totally unacceptable I have NO intention of imposing MY views on practising homosexuals who are free to practise same iN PRIVACY . They ARE NOT ENTITLED to CORRUPT our children with same ! The fact that our Government is also threatening to withdraw Monetary Aid to certain African so called 3rd World Nations is equally appalling and SHAMES our Nation !
And where was the cabinet and their backbench mostly educated ?
This is “the King has no clothes” Scenario. stupidity and blindness causes a lot of the problems our government seem to have already dragged us into. Christianity should be separate from your daft laws that offends our religion, It was Christianity that formed this land and formed the greatest Empire it was. Sodomy is a subject we do not wish to have our children subjected to. Respect our beliefs as you seem to be bending over backwards to respect Islam? School morning assemblies were your first target, it was from there we started to collapse as a proud Christian Nation
Our Schools don’t require any of your insane ideas, you have handed yourselves over to Europe and as puppets you may have to respond to your masters will. As we respond to our Masters will. You see what I’m saying? Your master begins with a small “m” My Master is the creator over all you survey. Yes everything! The government have destroyed the Great in Britain, removed its personality, it’s uniqueness it’s magnificence in world credibility and made it as sad and mundane as your weak, sad selves. Backbone deficiency! Get a grip! “The Trojan Horse is already within our gates and our futures are in your hands”. God help us!
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I believe God will help us, as he helped Wilberforce, etc, but it seems to me that we, as Christians, along with all decent British people, have to stand up as men and women. Look at Nazi Germany: the majority of the “churches” went along with it, perhaps praying for God to “help them”, but only a few like Bonhoeffer and Niemoller, etc actually DID anything. And look what happended to them! I really do believe we will have to lay our lives on the line. Look at what happened to Theo van Gogh, etc etc when they spoke out against isalm: Geert Wilders lives in constant fear and has to wear a bullet-proof vest. Ask Salman Rushdie.
I do not hate muslims, they’re just human beings like us, but I belive islam is a demonic, violent creed that causes human beings to behave in terrible ways. The muslims are victims like us, blinded by this ideology. “Our fight is not against fleash and blood…….”
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David Shuttleton: “Submit a Freedom of Informatin request to find out how many of these people are on these lists”. Go on then.
Seth A G Sykes: can’t “like” posts on this site like one can on, for example, facebook, so just wanted to share my agreement with you, and to “like” your post!!!
I would humbly suggest that UKIP is our only, albeit perhaps slim, hope.
Mark: in my humble opinion, the Christian Peoples Alliance, that I shall be standing for in next year’s General Election, is another h ope. I shall be taking this issue up.
It would be good if the Christian Alliance had a chance but I would have to agree with Mark that UKIP is our only hope in the political arena at this time because they stand a better chance of gaining some MPs.
Any other vote could be wasted , I only wish that Christians would stand united and stop voting for the mainstream 3 parties. If this were to happen we could see a great change.
Its Lenin’s old dictum: “push in the blade: if you meet steel, stop and withdraw. If you meet soft flesh, keep going”
I’ve had enough! The lunatics have truly taken over. The only ones that are listened to today are the
‘GAY PRIDE MOB’ they seem to be hell-bent on ramming their views on everyone else. I am now in my 80s and I’m astouded at the rubbish and stupidity that passes for tolerance and equality ( the new false gods). This conduct is promoted as being normal, good and healthy. Who are they kidding?
Is the body politic so currupt that they believe this nonsense?
God help us all if this is the case!
S. O’Neill
“Independent schools and proprietor must actively promote the fundamental British values”
AGREED, but since when has Sodomy been a fundamental British value ?
Both Sodomy and Incest were equally abhorrent to the majority until recently.
How long before INCEST is also promoted by the Department for Education ?
‘Actively promote’ also means challenging “parents expressing opinions contrary to fundamental British values.”
When will it eventually mean challenging other relatives of the pupils and their Leaders of Religion ?
When I was in the Navy, the only matelot to offer himself (no takers) was the product of one of our Public Schools. The main reason for the vitriol that Putin is attracting is because he will not countenance the promotion of Gay Pride.
It is time for WOW (War On Washington. We need to gather all of our sling shots, pea shooters and every other disabling armament we own and head there enmasse to bring the White House and the Congress to their knees.
So promoting British values now includes promoting Cultural Marxism!!
And all this from a so-called Conservative government!
Well the leaders of the 1923 Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism must be cheering in their graves (or hell)! They have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams!
Is it possible that SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE Muslims have never been our enemy and that we have fallen for a deliberately-engineered , media-hyped, divide and conquer strategy? Just food for thought.
I am so sorry for our “?Christian?” Prime Minister.
As he stands today, there will be the appearance before The Judgement Seat of Christ, (as we all without exception will).
The Judgement Seat is not a Court Room where he will be able to challenge the accusation. It will be the day when judgement is handed down and there will be no appeal.
The sentence will be everlasting separation from God, which will be the worst event that anybody can ever experience.
I am so sorry for David Cameron.
We do not know and cannot judge anyone’s eternal destiny. That being said, those in authority – whether teachers, pastors, parents or rulers – are responsible to Almighty God and bear an awesome responsibility before the Throne of Grace. They need our prayers:
James 3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good.
The destination for all the abominable is the lake of Fire according to Revelation 21:8.
Let us not play it down in any way.
Regarding judging, Christ is the one who is our Judge.
However, all Christians are instructed by Christ himself to make righteous judgments.
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment
It is wrong to misuse the command Judge not.
It means do not condemn.
Many of the abominable sins, which are being committed, by those in authority,
right down to those under authority, should result in the death penalty.
The now we are under ‘Grace’ reasoning, is also an abomination.
Grace is not a license to sin.
Sin is sin, and it carries an automatic penalty.
This requires righteous judges, but where can we find them?
Even when you are forgiven, nowhere are we told that we will not suffer
the penalty for our wickedness. Our wicked thoughts, words, and deeds,
all have a price. It is not only the wicked deeds. The words of our leaders are causing us to be cursed.
Christ said, just to lust after a woman is to sin. He meant it. We, and our leaders ought to be very
careful not only what we do, but what we say, because Christ also said that we will give an account for every idle word. Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment..
If idle words will incur judgment, how much more will wicked, Satanic words?
When we say that people need our prayers, precisely what does it mean?
We can only pray for repentance, and I do not see or expect this any time soon.
What we will reap quite soon, does not bear thinking about.
If this does not happen, then the Eternal God does not exist.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
The solution is a direct appeal to the Eternal God, with sincere prayer and fasting for our national
wickedness, and actual repentance. Unfortunately, and sadly I cannot see this any time soon.
May the Lord have mercy on us, for what we will shortly receive.
I think predictably all the comments regarding this latest debacle from the government are against what they are trying to do. The sad fact is that there are increasingly large swaiths in the church who are for all this corruption and undermine any attempt to oppose it. This is not a line of weakness, but I do see now that British, European and western society generally are now all past redemption. prgressively, we have become so corrupt that we fail to recognize how bad we have become. There is out and out predjudice against anything Christians stand for particulrly o nthis line, and we are now about the start winessing the total disintegration of our society as we know it. I do not think that this can be averted now.
Why not premote paedophilia or beastiality it amounts to the same thing.
Bestialty is not yet a ‘protected characteristic’ under the Equalities Act 2010. As for the paedophile end of the homosexual spectrum, that isn’t either, as much as it may have been a ‘protected characteristic’ in the corridors of power for longer than we can remember.
And the clergy. Don’t forget how much the godly love to rape and abuse children
If you can establish that godly people, rather than homosexual chancers who chose the church as a route to gain access to adolescents, were involved, there might be some credence in what you write. But as you can’t, it’s just an ignorant, prejudiced anti-Christian rant. ‘Hate speech’, to use language you will understand.
I’m as able to “demonstrate” that as you are able to “demonstrate” the reverse to be true. In other words, we each bring to the exercise our own preconceptions about which comes first – the faith or the tendency to rape children. The distance between us is that I acknowledge that whereas I suspect you cannot
You made the claim. You provide the evidence.
Oh, and nicely done to assume that my use of “clergy”, whilst deliberately non-denominational, comprises an “anti-Christian rant”. More proof, if that were needed, of the preconceptions you bring to the exchange
You have shown that one can be non-denominational and still rabidly anti-Christian, Monica.
Bad people who say they are Christians are not really Christians.
Over the years whilst searching for sound seats of real Christianity, I have found two kinds of “Clergy”where the name Clergy fits! a) Spiritually Dead persons unable to answer awkward questions! b) Ignorant persons unwilling to look at or aknowledge ugly truths about what takes place in places of power and influence, Cowards can be applied to many also, what of the wicked man who was despised by a whole village whom gets a Christian Burial what difference would there be in the words spoken of over his dead body May he rest in peace!?
Where men/women are weak(lukewarm) to react and speak out against wickedness, Satan gets to inject far more venom of immorality into the community, we today are led by wicked immoral leaders infact the leaders that we have deserved, and that is why Cowards are on the list of those destined for Fire because they are the sleeping gatekeepers that have allowed Satans hoard pass by, Woe to the soothsayers and facilitators of inaction against utter wickedness, they shall be found as guilty as they think not.
Amen
It really would not surprise me if they didn’t make consented incest legal next.
According to Joseph Goebbels, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it – that being homo- or tran-sexual is acceptable. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or social consequences of the lie.
We’ve seen this before: when the ‘Anything Goes’ culture was promoted during the Sixties, abortion became legalised as did homosexual practise. In the case of the former, seven million lives lost to the nation – are we any better than the Canaanites who forfeited their right to their land, having practised child sacrifice?
Why are these things always so one-sided? Will homosexuals etc. all be told that they must also accept that others are NOT like they are and that our beliefs on such matters are as valid as theirs are? If Christian children will be forced to visit mosques as part of their education will muslims be forced to visit various branches of the Christian church and maybe be, somewhat, indoctrinated with other religions e.g. witchcraft? Where do we stop? Schools are filled with diverse people and what their parent choose to teach them should remain that way. The authorities should not be allowed to interfere with this.
The authorities who are trying to push these things will be in for a great shock when muslims take over the whole of Great Britain (see how much equality there will be then !!) and just wait for the outcry when children are ‘interfered with’ in the school toilets and behind the bike sheds by their own gender.
When will we reach the point where ALL things are acceptable e.g. sex with animals in the school playing field, a girl being beheaded in the playground after a boy has made her pregnant.
This is not being far-fetched. When things are not ‘nipped in the bud’ they get out of hand. We have passed that point already – things are NOW out of hand and must go no further. A reversal is required.
Britain must be one of the most Godless nations on the planet now and those who once went from here on the mission fields would, if it were possible, be turning in their graves.