"The school has recently tried to tackle homophobia and played the Macklemore song in assembly,"...
and that's exactly the sort of thing that explains why my three dc's are and will continue to be in independent Christian school.
I can sleep tonight knowing MY children just WILL NOT be exposed in a school (thus giving an authority figure's implicit imprimatur) to a sick song: which blasphemously co-opts Bible verses containing the word "love" divorced [pun intended] from their Scriptural contexts to promote the approval of sex between two men, by an overt and unrepentant practicing lesbian;
which contains the line " whatever God you believe in, we come from the same one thus promoting the Karen Armstrong, John Shore, New Age any-way-is-okay claptrap which pervades much state school "neutral RE" rather than acknowledging the differences between God as He revealed Himself in His Word and man-made idols;
which peddles the Far Left, Humanistic, rotten little lies that those Christians who hold to orthodox sexual morality have "somehow forgotten" (I can feel the liberal condescension in those words) that "God loves all His children", that they do not understand the Bible accurately so only "paraphrase" and that they resort to only Old Testament ["3500 years ago"] texts in reaching their positions; actually, we know He loves all but Jesus warned that while all men are our neighbours, not all men are "God's children." Rejecting this biased and one-sided view of the Creator, we pro-family born-again Christians understand His love to not be of the same kind as Macklemore's modernistic and man-centric concept of a sickly-sweet, feminized, non-judgey approval; this inferior supposed "love" is in reality mere indulgence;
which is politically biased as one would expect from ultra liberal Macklemore, vainly accusing "right-wing conservatives" of "playing God" while misrepresenting both those who believe in ex-gay/reparative therapy and the much wider pool of conservatives who believe homosexual lusts should be suppressed, not acted out;
which compares the affirmers of sexual immorality to anti-racists and those who hold firm in the man/woman view of marriage to White Supremacists, an evil comparison debasing human nature and mocking God even as the artist claims to believe in Him (like the revolting "Jason Collins=Jackie Robinson" false analogy used when he announced his homosexuality this April but one level worse), bearing false witness about us by taunting us as "hate" and "fear" based rather than morality- and Scripture-based;
and which advocates for the godless nostrum of cosmopolitan postmoderns of "Be Yourself", even referring to the choice to kill oneself in terms of "being who-you-are"... when I believe "DENY SELF and Follow Christ".
This is yet the sort of spiritually toxic garbage the pro-Stonewall crowd want young impressionable kids to hear in the captive-audience environment of a school assembly! What is it with this campaign of brazen shamelessness uniting professing people of faith who seem shaky at best with secular humanists?
No wonder so many of the 18-34 "millennial generation" are for redefining marriage away from sexual complementary definitions and believe in anything-goes "consensualist" sexual pseudomorality rather than the restraints that characterize the virtuous! The majority of people that age have been through a state education system run entirely by the children of the sixties revolution, now middle-aged and affluent "respected professionals" who brought bags of their youthful far-leftist tricks with them into schools, medicine, law, politics, the media and even some churches giving them different names to bewilder those not in their "enlightened" (as if!) complex of corruption.