{"id":33133,"date":"2024-03-22T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=33133"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:13:15","slug":"mps-debate-lgbt-content-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/mps-debate-lgbt-content-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs debate ‘LGBT’ content in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MPs<\/a>
MPs during the debate in Westminster Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Members of Parliament (MPs) have debated petitions regarding “LGBT” content in relationships education.<\/p>\n

MPs from all parties took part in the debate on 18th March.<\/p>\n

The Government<\/b><\/a> responded to the petition in January 2023,\u00a0 but it took over a year for MPS to debate it.<\/p>\n

The petitions debated:<\/h2>\n

MPs debated two petitions\u2014one calling for the removal of “LGBT” content from the Relationships Education curriculum (RE), and the other advocating to retain “LGBT” content in the education system.<\/p>\n

This petition to remove “LGBT” content from the RE curriculum garnered more than 249,000 signatures, and states: ‘We believe kids shouldn’t learn about this at an early age. I am sure there are many parents who do not want their or other children taught about LGBT in primary school’.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the opposing petition with more than 104,000 signatures, argues that children should learn about sodomy at an early age, concluding: ‘Kids should know … Despite what their parents might believe.’<\/p>\n

Sign OUR petitions, which oppose RSE and the related issue of transgenderism:<\/p>\n

Petition against the child abuse of RSE \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n

Petition: Stop Transgenderism Now!<\/b> \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTwo dads and two mums?\u201d<\/h2>\n

During the debate, Elliot Colburn, the homosexual MP for Carshalton and Wallington, said; \u2018The Government\u2019s RSE guidance of 2019 advises schools to plan a developmental and age-appropriate curriculum. Relationships education is therefore approached in ways that are relevant to the age and maturity of the pupils. For example, teaching about \u201cFamilies and people who care for me\u201d in primary school can be an opportunity to talk about the fact that some people have \u201ctwo dads and some have two mums.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Key messages taught throughout relationships education include that people do not have to conform to narrow stereotypes and that discrimination, bullying and prejudice are harmful and wrong. Indeed, that principle is woven throughout the British values element of school teaching,<\/p>\n

\u2018The aim of which is to encourage and foster respect, kindness, equality and inclusion. Those are British values: they are intrinsic to the ethos of most schools, and families are supportive of them.<\/p>\n

\u2018Primary schools are not required to teach sex education or explicitly teach about “LGBT” issues; it is more about families and relationships. Parents also have the right to withdraw their child from the sex education part of RSE up to the age of 16.\u2019<\/p>\n