Gays "never Felt More Vulnerable"

[vetuste_ennemi]

What should we be doing to help this marginalised group?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-47742085

[Old_Geezer]

Poor dears. Can't cope with others having a different opinion on education ?

"A West Midlands Police officer said the protests did not constitute a hate crime despite coming "very close"." In what way .

If there is a genuine specific threat then the police need to deal with it, not spread misinformation about demonstrations being so-called hate crime.

[douglas9401]

Maybe we should be removing protected status from all special interest groups and operate under the law as it stands.

Oh, and employ some police, not social engineers.

[-Talbot-]

Get some placards knocked up and join them in their anti-LGBT protests?

[Maydup]

We could elect a gay Prime Minister. Plenty to chose from and would send the most positive of messages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_politicians_in_the_United_Kingdom

[Calicogirl]

It's nothing to do with people not 'being able to cope with people having a different idea about education', it's about the fact that it's taken over 50 years for LGBT relationships to be acknowledged as perfectly normal within society, and for that normality to be taught in schools to try to stem the huge amount of stigma which teens who are gay felt in the past, and which frequently led to suicide or mental illness. Fundamental bigots are now trying to dismantle this process to further their own agenda.
It's not an 'opinion' that gay relationships are valid and okay- it's the law, and anyone deliberately trying to state that there is anything abnormal, 'disgusting', unnatural or wrong in that is potentially committing a hate crime.
Sex education should be compulsary in all schools, and the teaching of LGBT relationships ought to obviously form part of that. Birmingham police need to step up and address this shambles firmly.

[Zacs-Master]

Well said CG.

Such outdated and bigoted opinions should be consigned to history. A bit like people who speak Latin.

[mushroom25]

//Sex education should be compulsary in all schools, //

by "all" do you mean the complete age range from year 1 upwards?
do you mean "sex" as in the bio-mechanical processes involved, or do you mean "relationships"?

[-Talbot-]

Fundamental bigots are now trying to dismantle this process to further their own agenda.




Well swerved.

[Calicogirl]

Mushroom- all of those things. It's far easier if children are taught about sex, relationships and mutual respect for your partners all in one go, preferably from as early an age as possible. If a small child grows up with the idea you should treat yourself and other people with respect with regards to intimate relationships then we'd have far fewer social issues than we do now.

Talbot- not swerved at all- people need to understand whatever racial or religious group they belong to that UK law trumps all of it.

[Prudie]

Why should "we" be doing anything? Let the authorities sort it out.

[Khandro]

//Such outdated and bigoted opinions should be consigned to history. A bit like people who speak Latin.//


nunc urgere penitùs videntur quae latine loquentium

[dannyk13]

Calico, since when has it been the law what subjects are taught at school?

[Zacs-Master]

I couldn’t have given a better example.

[Calicogirl]

That wasn't what I said Danny. If you read carefully I said it's the law that one cannot disparage gay relationships as 'abnormal' or 'disgusting' because that is a hate crime.

[dannyk13]

OK.

[ummmm]

I think it's shocking in this day and age that kids are not taught about relationships. I was told from a young age, It's not the mechanics of sex they are taught about, just the differences.

[mushroom25]

//Mushroom- all of those things.//

respect, relationships, yes. but does a 5 year old really need to know where to put what, and what you do next?

[Calicogirl]

Not necessarily Mushroom I agree, however some kids will be more forward and inquisitive in that regard and if something is taught matter of factly and naturally then it's a non event and prevents peer to peer misinformation occurring. I can't remember not ever knowing about sex, and thus it wasn't anything I ever really thought about, I just accepted it and it didn't impinge on my childhood at all.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Nihil novi est umquam temere exitus

[Mamyalynne]

Despite the use of the word ;Distraught', which I don't feel helps matters - this teacher explains some of the misconceptions about these matters and what some think they know about the lessons.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-47692617

To me, there is a huge difference between being taught that things aren't the same for every family and the oft heard cry of 'promoting' same sex relationships.
But then I am a simple soul.