Teacher at center of Birmingham Muslim anti-LGBT protests threatened
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Teacher at centre of LGBT row in Birmingham received death threa..
The teacher at the centre of the row over LGBT lessons has told Sky News he received a death threat and has been given advice from police about how he travels to and from school. Andrew Moffat, the assistant head teacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, wrote the No Outsiders programme that is used to teach diversity and equality in some schools.
Protests by mainly Muslim parents who object to their children learning about same-sex relationships have now spread from Parkfield to other schools in Birmingham and beyond. Mr Moffat told Sky News: "I had a message saying, 'You won't last long'. There's been some very difficult messages to receive."
He rejects claims by protesters that his teaching is "intolerant" of their religion because he tells children it's OK to be gay.
"I would say that I am very clearly following British law," he said. "The equality act is very clear that you can have different race, religion, disability and sexual orientation. We can't pick and choose bits of the equality act that we are comfortable with.
Fuck them and their backwards superstitious beliefs. I'm all for taking the choice of where their children are educated out of their hands, the last thing we need is another case of cultural segregation which as demonstrated before has led to radicalisation and further violent/disruptive sentiment on both sides of the fence.
theres a lot of things that should be taught to kids by their parents, but theres a lot of shit schools should be teaching them because people are ignorant, racist, xenophobic, islamophobic etc. and will refuse to teach their kids about that stuff.
I respect beliefs but this isn't uzbekistan.
We as a society need to adapt to changes and fast. Causing teachers more stress over nothing is unacceptable and should be criminal.
They don't like government approved curriculum they can always go private.
I thought as a country we had this shit largely sorted, but then we went and let all these regressives in.
Even so, private schools should be banned from enabling/condoning homophobia and ignorance of LGBT rights - it's going to just lead to another slew of kids being clandestinely exposed to fundamentalist/radicalist teachings.
The saddest part of all of this is that there are hundreds of kids being taken out of school in this protest, which means there will be tens of them who are LGBT+ and are having their parents actively protest about their identity being an idea that's talked about.
Anyone who tries to claim “you’re just being intolerant of my intolerance, which makes YOU the real intolerant” deserves to be punched.
They don’t give a single shit about tolerance, they’re just using wordplay as if it’s an actual argument.
They do undergo inspections to ensure that isn't the case.
But it is getting pathetic to bully teachers over this issue, I think that is criminal harrassment.
If you're unhappy, write to your MP, don't disrupt other people's education.
Not sure how that'd even work without the school easily getting around it. Undercover kids?
They interview the children too. It is very difficult to circumvent the laws now in the UK, we are cracking down on illegal schools that used to run rampant in old office spaces and mistreating kids was the norm in those places.
History is messed up.
I am deeply religious but I still believe organized religion like this to be a joke. It's 2019, we, the religious, need to catch up with the rest of the world and treat people like people. That's all I can say about this issue.
There's no shortage of regressives born in the United States
Yes, I agree. It's a problem that's only going to get worse and I don't know how you can solve this. You can't exactly re-educate these people, can you? They have to come to the realisation that discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation is illegal and immoral. Something that our society has come to terms with fairly recently, except these people still carry beliefs that we now consider to be uncivilised and foreign and is at odds with the majority population's beliefs.
I'll stop beating around the bush - if these were Christians I'd speak my mind much more plainly, but the fact remains that discussing the behaviour of Muslims is an extremely contentious activity, which is fucking absurd. I dislike Islam, but I like or dislike Muslims based upon the content of their character, but if they want to use their religion as a method of justifying illegal or immoral activity then we need to call them out and grow a pair.
I'd argue that pretty much any major religion has its fair share of problematic aspects and extremists. I also find it pretty funny that, barring a few exceptions, they're bigoted in very similar ways to one another.
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