Faith schools should say homosexuality is normal..

[daftpunk]

Why can't people just leave us alone

I absolutely agree re faith schools in this country, it is a ridiculous state to be in.

I don't bother homosexuals, I don't want all their gay pride marches banned (but don't see why I should pay for them out of my taxes)....I leave them alone.....

I suspect many people on this thread are unable to imagine that they might be wrong.

It was a beautiful hot day at the Aryan family camping trip, when I first saw you.
You were polishing your jackboots, and I was knitting little Eva a golliwog.
Our eyes met and there was a flash of electricity between us.
Later after dinner, as we threw some more books on the campfire. You whispered to me that you were afraid to use toilets away from home, and if I could come and talk to you while you were having a crap to take your mind off the fact that a homosexual Pakistani may have used the toilet before you.
As you squeezed out the last lump, I knew you had to be mine.
We have been sending pubic hair to each other in the post for years now.
Time we came out, my dearest darling.

Who the hell is Norman whathisface and what is his 'Family Education Trust'? Who does he speak for and why is he always quoted in these kind of articles in the right wing press? I have a vague idea he's a retired headteacher but I suspect he's not speaking for anyone other than himself. Which is fine, but I wish they wouldn't position him as someone with a constituency.

"you are a hateful, predjudeced person ... how does that fit in with the catholic ethos? pretty fucking well actually"

Actually Dis, as a Catholic who has no problem at all with anyone being gay, I found that pretty insulting. Please don't tar us all with the same brush. I come from good Irish Catholic stock, was educated in RC schools and I never heard a bad word about homosexuality. Many people who follow a religion will interpret it differently. You can be a Catholic and have a bit of sense you know; we're not all homophobic sheep

Mildly amusing MrsGriffen....But don't give up the day job.

We cant go on like this my darling daft..

dp, perhaps it's time you got a job.

You see, you seem to be thinking about it alot.

thinking about what..?

Homosexuality darling..Its on your mind...alot.

I quite like how LeninGrad put things...

MrsGriffen..

Come here darlin...

Quite a few people think i'm really a frustrated lesbian....but as I've said before, I talk alot about immigrants...doesn't mean I want to be a Somalian.

"I don't think anyone seriously thinks that Clegg is proclaiming that gay relations are the statistical median for sexual relations

Not even in the Liberal Democrat party"

You been to a LibDem party conference then, MP?

"You can be a Catholic and have a bit of sense you know; we're not all homophobic sheep"

I am aware of this, and the diversity of opinions within the church comes across very well on this thread. IMHO.

However. The one thing that a casual observer knows about the Catholic church is that what the pope says, goes. Infallibilty, I believe they call it. If it wasn't for that and the transubstantiation (oh, and the women priests), you might as well be CofE, right?
So when he comes out with, well, some of the stuff he comes out with... it makes you all look a bit... er, 5555555what you said.

oops, DD attacked that post...

Papal infallibility relies on a formal proclamation under set "rules", surely?

I think that's true, MIFLAW, but it's not clear to your average observer, I reckon.

Still readiing the thread but well done to Clegg for saying it.

it IS normal and anyone saying it is not should be barred from teaching.

This is why faith schools are such a bad idea. Faith in what a church tells you is true is incompatible with teaching. You have to be bad at one or the other to make it work at all.