The people protesting against LGBT+ subject matter being included in children's education need to be educated themselves. This isn't just an issue that is exclusive to the Muslim religion, the American far right evangelists appear homophobic (the school vice president Pence's wife Karen teaches at refused to admit LGBT+ students), and in the UK we have Catholics like Ann Widecombe making ignorant comments about science developing "cures" for gays. In practice, if you look at the research being done by quality organisations such as Imperial College they are investigating why a significant proportion of the animal kingdom isn't heterosexual (see link). There's also the instances of individuals who have the incorrect combination of chromosomes: the intersex who are neither male nor female. Add to that trans people who aren't comfortably in their body that defines their physical sexuality and we have a spectrum of sexual variances from the basic binary male/female one. Our scientific understanding of these variances is still being developed. The one fact is they do exist and can't be ignored, so why hide this fact from children? I'm of the opinion we're at the point scientifically with sexual variances where astronomy was at when Galileo used the telescope to show the church the earth wasn't the centre of the universe. As to when and at what rate children should be taught about sex and relationships, and in what order, is for educationalists who know more about it than me but it must be inclusive to prepare them for the real world. It basically comes down to all religions having to accept the latest scientific research. (And, yes, I am an atheist.) Of course, some people still believe the world is flat ....https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190987/scientists-explore-evolution-animal-homosexuality/
Michael Ixer ● 2718d