Schools, Sex, Parents and Churches
As the western world seems to nudge day by day slightly further to the right, it should probably come as no surprise that the old debate regarding teaching about LGBT+ issues in school should come to the fore. Once again in the United Kingdom, some parents (often motivated ostensibly by a religious faith, be it Christian or Muslim) are objecting to their children being taught about Lesbian and Gay relationships and gender issues. The spirit of the notorious Section 28 lives on and casts an increasingly sinister shadow in these supposedly more enlightened days. Education is about the imparting of facts and helping children and young people to process facts and think for themselves. Sex education - so often euphemistically but accurately referred to as 'The Facts of Life' - must always be about the realities of human embodiment, physical attraction and relationship. To suggest that it should not include the reality of same sex attraction is an absurd, irresponsible and alarmin...