AIBU to think the government is not "promoting homosexuality" in schools?

[SheHasAWildHeart]

Saw this on my FB and I don't know what to make of it. Firstly, it made me angry because I don't think the government is "promoting" homosexuality - it's isn't telling children to 'become' gay, it is saying if you are 'gay' that's fine, if you're friends are 'gay' that's fine. Secondly, this meeting is taking place in an area where the schools are shocking, exam grades below the national average, poor attendance, high crime rate, poor levels of literacy & numeracy and also many schools involved in the Trojan Horse scandal. Having lived in this area when I was younger I wish the community would put as much energy into dealing with these issues before getting their knickers twisted over CHIP. What do others think?

Dear…..

I am writing to you about an extremely urgent matter. A teaching programme which promotes same sex marriage and gender identity to young children is being introduced into primary schools across Birmingham.

I realise that this is very short notice, but I would like to invite you to a meeting on Thursday 26 February 2015, to tell you about this new teaching resource called CHIPS (Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools).

This is such a serious matter. CHIPS is a programme of homosexual indoctrination, which works on young, impressionable minds to normalise homosexuality and to ignore their parents’ values.

Parents, who have spoken to me, are upset and angry that their children are being subjected to this programme of indoctrination. Many head teachers and teachers feel pressured to use this programme. CHIPS is causing great distress to Birmingham families and is an attack on marriage and the family.

Please consider coming to the meeting on 26 February. We will look at the content of the CHIPS programme and the dangers it presents. We will explain the involvement of Birmingham City Council and suggest ways to resist this programme coming into schools and thus protect children.

This meeting is for religious leaders of all denominations, parents, school governors, head teachers and teachers. Please make every effort to attend. Press reports last month suggest that Birmingham City Council is now insisting that homosexual issues are taught in all of its local authority-controlled schools by 2018.

Weird. The SPUC campaign is called "Safe at School"
That should mean kids or parents who are gay should feel safe, but apparently not:
The SPUC spokesperson said “Teaching children about sexual orientation isn’t making them safe, It’s putting ideas into their heads.”

SPUC are bastards. I wish them harm for inflicting their various horrible views on others.

They sound about as bright and enlightened as my MIL who thinks they shouldn't show gay characters on TV as it 'puts ideas in people's heads'. So offensive but yet so utterly ridiculous and pitifully dim

Keep kids safe from SPUC at school, that would be a good start. I'd rather they got a live gay sex show than a talk from SPUC.

The meeting has been cancelled and seems like it was because not everyone was happy about it.

Big CHoc: "putting ideas into their heads.” At school! The very idea!

rather than teaching homosexuality or hetrosexuality they should just teach it neutral i dunno how but it would be fair and not seperate the two

"Putting ideas into their heads"

I was quite lucky to attend a fairly liberal secondary school and remember clearly our form tutor doing a sex ed lesson and covering homosexual relationships as well at heterosexual ones. How silly of me to not realise they were trying to make me Gay!

I hate people sometimes.

I once heard "I'm not against gay and I'm all for equality, but marriage is between a man and a woman". Seems some are more equal than others.

I've always said to DS and DD that gay marriage should be allowed because marriage should be for 2 people who love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together, and that it doesn't matter if it's 2 men or 2 women.

I have 2 gay relatives and DS and DD love them to bits. I'm very protective of my relatives, although they don't seem to come in contact with many idiots who oppose and slag them off. AFAIC, if 2 people love each other and want to get married, they should be allowed to do so without prejudice.

AFAIK CHIPS is a programme aimed at combating homophobic bullying and general homophobia in schools. I'd say that is a Good Thing.

The fact that the usual suspects (i.e. SPUC) are behind this says it all, really. I'm glad the meeting was cancelled, let's hope it's because there's a shortage of bigots in Birmingham.

Dangerous things, ideas. Should be banned.

Obviously SPUC realise we must stop schools exposing (!) kids to views different to those their parents hold and < gulp > maybe even having new ideas themselves.

Before you know it, defenceless kids will be learning about different kinds of families and even < shudders > might accept people as they are.

We must stop this gay programming by the nanny state
< rushes off to EM [email protected] >