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Australia: Gay ideology taught in school - parents can opt out

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The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed as a good “first step”, news that the NSW Government will give parents the right to “opt in” to the controversial Safe Schools program. ACL New South Wales Director Mark Makowiecki said it was good to see the NSW Government requiring its Education Department to implement recommendations from the Federal Government ’s review into Safe Schools. “The Safe Schools Coalition has been thumbing its nose at the recommendations of the Louden review that was called by Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham after deep concerns were raised with the gender idealogy in Safe Schools,” Mr Makowiecki said. “We expect all State Governments to implement the recommendations that give parents the right to determine if their children should take part in the program which teaches children their gender is fluid. “In July, the NSW Government took away the rights of parents to know which schools are running the program, making the list secret. “The fact ...

When anti-discrimination turns to shouting down

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Andrew Barr 's impassioned defence of the so-called Safe Schools program in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday did not go into the concerns many parents have with their kids being inducted into contested gender theory . No one, especially people of faith, want to see children bullied at school for any reason. Full stop. But missing from the Chief Minister's defence was a rationale as to why an anti-bullying program urges schools to change their policies so boys identifying as girls should be allowed in the girls toilets and to share school camp accommodation. It is not clear why school teachers should cease using gender specific terms such as "boys and girls" when referring to children. No one has explained why four year olds should be encouraged to read the Safe Schools resource book Gender Fairy which tells them no one can tell you what gender you are. Safe Schools heavily promotes the Minus 18 organisation and its website which gives instruction in chest b...