{"id":2244,"date":"2007-03-15T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/four-year-olds-will-get-gay-fairytales-at-school\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T02:13:54","slug":"four-year-olds-will-get-gay-fairytales-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/four-year-olds-will-get-gay-fairytales-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-year-olds will get gay fairytales at school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=441542&#038;in_page_id=1770\">London Daily Mail<\/a> Laura Clark March 15, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Schools are teaching children as young as four about same-sex relationships to comply with new gay rights laws, it emerged yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>They are introducing youngsters to homosexuality using a series of story books in preparation for controversial regulations coming into force next month.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen primary schools are already taking part in a \u00a3600,000 Government-funded study aimed at familiarising children with gay and lesbian relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The research team behind the project intends to post the findings on national websites to help all schools use the books in their literacy lessons.<\/p>\n<p>It also revealed it is leading workshops for local councils across the country which are asking how to implement new laws banning discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>The academics working on the study say showing children that homosexuality is part of everyday life helps reduce homophobic bullying in the playground.<\/p>\n<p>They claim schools need to ensure they are serving the needs of gay pupils and parents to comply with the Equality Act.<\/p>\n<p>However the scheme sparked alarm among Christian groups who fear the legislation could leave schools open to lawsuits if they refuse to use books with gay characters. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=441542&#038;in_page_id=1770\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Daily Mail Laura Clark March 15, 2007 Schools are teaching children as young as four about same-sex relationships to comply with new gay rights laws, it emerged yesterday. They are introducing youngsters to homosexuality using a series of story books in preparation for controversial regulations coming into force next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}