Some folk seem to be missing the USSR.
BBC journalists have publicly criticised Question Time’s decision to debate the teaching of tolerance of LGBT relationships in primary schools, arguing that the issue should not be up for debate.
There you have it, folks. The Kommisars have spoken and the little people will obey on pain of a bullet in the back of the skull. Dissent will not be tolerated. That teaching this stuff to primary aged children is an anathema that brings me into alignment with the Muslims is an interesting one. But to suggest, nay to assert, that something is not up for debate is the behaviour of the Stalinist.
An audience member, Keith Broughton, was picked to ask panellists on Thursday night’s programme: “Is it morally right that five-year-old children learn about LGBTQ+ issues in school?”
No. It is a matter for parents.
Sue Perkins, the former Great British Bake Off host who regularly presents BBC programmes, backed their concerns. “The framing of this question is deeply worrying. Are we really here again, nearly two decades after Section 28 was repealed?” she asked on Twitter.
Which is interesting, because section 28 was designed to prevent proselytisation in schools. We were assured that repealing section 28 would not lead to this. And where are we today?
For the record, I really don’t care about people’s preferences when it comes to sexuality. It’s a private matter and the state has no business intervening. Equally, it has no business proselytising either. Such matters should be left to parents. So, yeah, I’m with the Muslims on this one.
I think that it is right that kids grow up knowing that some people are attracted to their own sex and that this is unusual but nothing to worry about. I don’t see why this needs to be indoctrinated into kids from such an early age since the zeitgeist has pretty much established this anyway.
I am old enough to have lived through the Jeremy Thorpe/Norman Scott homosexual controversy and the subsequent scandal (Scott of the Arse Antics jokes and all).
The joke at the time was “I don’t care if they make it legal as long as they don’t make it compulsory”.
Odd how satire becomes reality with the passage of time, eh?