Michael Gove, Britain’s secretary of state for education, said that Catholic schools have the right to educate students about the Church’s teaching on homosexuality.
Gove defended the Church after receiving a complaint from the general secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Brendan Barber. The TUC is a European organization that represents 6.2 million people who belong to unions. Barber wrote to Gove and said that the “homophobic material” that is being used in some classrooms goes against the Equality Act, the Catholic Herald reported.
Barber took issue with a booklet called “Pure Manhood: How to Become the Man God Wants You to Be,” which says that “the homosexual act is disordered, much like contraceptive sex between heterosexuals” and “both acts are directed against God’s natural purpose for sex - babies and bonding.” The text was provided by Jason Evert, a Catholic apologist, and is supposed to encourage “chastity in accordance with church teaching.”
Gove responded to Barber and said that the content of the materials are not covered by the Equality Act.
edgeonthenet.com/news/religion/news/130256/uk_government_defends_catholic_schools%E2%80%99_%E2%80%99homophobic%E2%80%99_booklet“The education provisions of the Equality Act which prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their protected characteristics (including their sexual orientation) do not extend to the content of the curriculum,” Gove said. “Any materials used in sex and relationship education lessons, therefore, will not be subject to the discrimination provisions of the act. If a school conveyed its beliefs in a way that involved haranguing, harassing or berating a gay or lesbian pupil or group of pupils then this would be unacceptable in any circumstances and is likely to constitute unlawful discrimination.”
Yeah I know. Just goes to show how the secular world views things. Kinda sad.The author of the booklet is Jason Evert, a staff apologist for Catholic Answers and one of its speakers.
Well, the article is from a pro-LGBT website so I guess its natural that it will have an unfriendly title.Well, this sure is interesting. Sorry about the title everyone but that is how it was on the article.
Thanks.Well, the article is from a pro-LGBT website so I guess its natural that it will have an unfriendly title.
Here is an article from the UK’s Catholic Herald
Gove rejects call to ban Catholic booklet from schools
catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/02/23/gove-rejects-call-to-ban-catholic-booklet-from-schools/
So they’ll be trying to create this circumstance so they can yell “Discrimination!”If a school conveyed its beliefs in a way that involved haranguing, harassing or berating a gay or lesbian pupil or group of pupils then this would be unacceptable in any circumstances and is likely to constitute unlawful discrimination."