French government warns Catholic schools to stay ‘neutral’ on homosexual ‘marriage’
January 7, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - As French Catholics prepare to mobilize on January 13 for a national march against the creation of homosexual “ marriage ,” the country’s education minister is warning Catholic schools against participating, claiming that it could cause “homophobia” against homosexual students. National Education Minister Vincent Peillon has written a letter to all of the country’s 8,300 Catholic school principals, claiming that they have the responsibility to maintain “neutrality” regarding the debate over homosexual “marriage” in their institutions, according to reports by Le Monde and the French Press Agency. Education Minister Vincent Peillon “It is your responsibility in effect to ensure that the debates that are occurring in French society not be expressed, in the schools and establishments, by the phenomena of rejection and homophobic stigmatization,” wrote Peillon. “I call you to the greatest vigilance regarding the conditions of the legi