To be fuming at these homophobic bigots!

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Been reading about the primary school Assistant Head who set up the No Outsiders project, educating children across the UK about 'accepting difference' in society. He was awarded an MBE for this project, and yet a small group of parents at his school in the Midlands have launched a hateful campaign against him. He has now started receiving threats against him. He happens to be gay himself, the these parents have said he is enforcing his "personal views" on the children...Er no, thats THE LAW! Its called EQUALITY!

This is making me really blooming angry and I fume about it every time I hear or read more. There are a couple of things that reeeeeally make me fume:

1. every time the parents are interviewed they say 'we are tolerant of all people' etc etc, except... NO they're NOT! It's just bloody bigotry plain and simple! You can't say 'I'm not homophobic but I don't want my child reading a book with a same sex couple in it", for example. THAT IS HOMOPHOBIC!!!

1. It infuriates me that every time the BBC report these kind of stories they insist on this bloody idea of "balance" and misinterpret that to mean we should hear exactly 50/50 of the story from both sides, even when one of those sides is a TINY minority of extreme thinkers! (400 parents signed the petition, it's hardly a movement FFS). This is DAMAGING our society because there more of this kind of reporting we hear, the more it normalises these kind of views. It's like Question Time repeatedly having Farage on (more than any other panelist) as if he is in ANY way representative of the general public (Ukip having 2% of the vote at the last GE), and TM kowtowing to the tiny minority in her party who then hold the whole country to ransom.

It must be okay for the BBC to say, 'actually, this view is quite extreme, so we are only going to give it x% proportion of the time / argument as that is fair'. E.g there are only 400 parents complaining versus the xxxx thousands of children in the UK this project has worked in, so they should reflect that in the reporting.

Rant over!!

YANBU. The quote that jumped out at me was

Children are being told it’s OK to be gay, yet 98% of children at this school are Muslim,’ Shah said.
‘It’s a Muslim community. He said all parents are on board with it, but the reality is, no parents are on board with it.’
Shah removed her 10-year-old daughter from school, though she allowed her child to return later.

I know the area, I live close to it. The majority of people in the area are Muslim but that’s irrelevant. Because this is Great Britain.

YANBU. You’re absolutely right.