Catholic schools must give ‘balanced perspective’ on gay ‘marriage’: Welsh education minister
An anti-Christian lobby group is cheering the Welsh government this week, after the education minister threatened Catholic Schools for having asked students to oppose the government’s gay “marriage” plans. Catholic schools in Wales have been instructed in a letter from Welsh education minister Leighton Andrews to ensure that on the subject of same-sex “marriage,” students are “made aware of the converse view in order to give them a balanced perspective.” Education Minister Leighton Andrews At issue is a letter sent by the Catholic Education Society ( CES ) to 385 secondary schools in England and Wales alerting students to a letter from bishops opposing the redefinition of marriage to include homosexual partnerings. Students and staff were asked to consider signing a petition being circulated by the Coalition for Marriage, to maintain the traditional definition in the law. The bishops’ letter was read publicly from the pulpits of Catholic churches throu