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Catholic elementary school has leading UK gay lobby group educate students on “homophobic bullying”

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LONDON, May 16, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A Catholic elementary school in Wimbledon is under criticism for inviting Stonewall , the UK ’s most powerful homosexual lobbying group, to train its teachers how to deal with “homophobic bullying.” Sarah Crouch, headmaster of St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School , told the  Evening Standard , “We want to give our staff the tools to know what to do should an incident of homophobic bullying occur...It is important that children know it is not OK to use the word gay in a derogatory way.” She said the school brought Stonewall in to comply with the requirements of the government’s school overseers, Ofsted. Crouch praised Stonewall for tailoring its programme to a Catholic audience, without mentioning “same sex relationships or gay marriage.” For having involved the foremost promoter of “gay marriage” in the country in its teacher training, the school was made a “Primary School Champion” of “gay equality.” Wes Streeting of Stonewa

British deputy prime minister: Force churches to conduct ‘gay marriages’

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Nick Clegg in Mexico (Photo credit: Cabinet Office ) LONDON , July 6, 2012,  – Some British churchmen have said they believe that, should the government create “gay marriage,” groups will inevitably be forced to participate. Today, Nick Clegg , the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrat party , appeared to confirm these predictions when he said that “at the moment,” it is his opinion that homosexual partners should be allowed to conduct wedding ceremonies in churches. Clegg told the  London Evening Standard  during the global Gay Pride events, “This is a personal view at the moment, but I think that in exactly the same way that we shouldn’t force any church to conduct gay marriage, we shouldn’t stop any church that wants to conduct gay marriage. “I don’t see why two individuals who love each other and want to show commitment to each other should not be able to do so in a way that is socially recognized as being marriage,” he said. John Bingham, the religio