By Hilary White
October 9, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations has issued a stern warning to the UK on “homophobic bullying.” The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), meeting this week, said that “children belonging to minority groups, continue to experience discrimination and social stigmatisation.” Among these “minority groups” were included children who are “lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender.”
To avoid “discrimination and social stigmatisation” against these groups, the CRC said that the UK’s government must “take all necessary measures to ensure that cases of discrimination against children in all sectors of society are addressed effectively, including with disciplinary, administrative or – if necessary – penal sanctions.”
The language of “discrimination and social stigmatisation” has been used by the UK’s homosexualist movement, and their co-workers in government, to push for greater involvement of homosexualist activists in schools. The term “homophobic bullying” has become useful to the homosexualist movement in Britain to push government to tighten government controls over religious schools and, ultimately, private family life.
Last year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised the homosexualist movement that the government would crack down on “homophobic bullying” in schools. Speaking at an activist conference, Education for All, sponsored by Stonewall, Britain’s leading homosexualist group, Education Minister Kevin Brennan stressed that faith schools will be compelled to “take action against homophobia.”
A Department of Education and Skills document “Challenging Homophobia in Schools” defines homophobia as including “the presumption that everyone is heterosexual.” “Homophobic bullying” is a key code word established by Stonewall to force religious schools to cease promoting natural marriage and the family as normative.
Fr. Timothy Finigan, a parish priest in London and the founder of the Association of Priests for the Gospel of Life, told LifeSiteNews.com that since the passage earlier this year of the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs), it has become clear that an increasingly aggressive secularist government is using the “homophobic bullying” scare to put pressure on religious schools to secularise their policies.
Fr. Finigan said at the time, “When we saw Tony Blair attending Stonewall banquets, we knew that the group has considerable influence with the government. It is clear that they and the National Secular Society are calling the shots here. They make no secret that they hate our schools.”
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
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