Look who’s back... Christian Legal Centre & Christian Concern misusing law to protest the existence of gay people. theguardian.com/education/2018…
Christian Legal Centre’s “counsel” Roger Kiska is on the case: he’s an extremist >
Christian Legal Centre is backing (or inciting?) Izoduwa Adhedo to protest her son’s school for a “systematic campaign celebrating [LGBT] lifestyles”
Or “celebrating *everybody’s* family”, as non-haters see it. >
Or “celebrating *everybody’s* family”, as non-haters see it. >
Like every other CLC campaign, they exaggerate what they are opposing.
But, if you believe God wants no-one to be gay, then you’ll see “proselytising” when a teacher says “some children have two mummies - or two daddies” >
But, if you believe God wants no-one to be gay, then you’ll see “proselytising” when a teacher says “some children have two mummies - or two daddies” >
What Kisko wants is the complete erasure of same sex parents & their families from the curriculum. It’s fine to be proud of mummy & daddy. But teaching children it’s OK to be proud of daddy and daddy is “discriminating against Christians”. >
It can be discrimination to treat “unlike cases alike”. In Thlimmenos ECHR said Greece couldn’t ignore Jehovah’s Witnesses’ conscientious objection to military service - it had to recognise a difference.
Just as “we treat all children the same - they all get ham” discriminates>
Just as “we treat all children the same - they all get ham” discriminates>
Since it’s illegal discrimination for a school to serve ham to a child of Jewish parents, is it illegal discrimination to serve a child of an extremist Christian a diet of acceptance of gayness? >
IMO, it is discrimination - but it’s not illegal. First, because there’s an overriding public interest against a hostile environment for children of gay parents - and children who may be gay. >
What Kisko wants is a school environment where families are celebrated in books & stories, but not gay parent families - they are invisible. That teaches children to think gay parents *aren’t accepted*.
That’s an environment that legitimises anti-gay discrimination & hate>
That’s an environment that legitimises anti-gay discrimination & hate>
Second, because there’s an overriding public interest in all children having a *fact-based* education.
Maybe your cult doesn’t believe in evolution. Or human-caused global warming. You’re free to tell your children that. But they have a right to know what’s true. >
Maybe your cult doesn’t believe in evolution. Or human-caused global warming. You’re free to tell your children that. But they have a right to know what’s true. >
Religious parents have the right to expose their children to their beliefs. But they don’t have the right to deny their children access to the facts, beliefs and legal rights most people endorse. Denying them that right can be discrimination - but that doesn’t make it illegal. //
