{"id":8994,"date":"2019-01-30T10:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T09:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T09:09:56","slug":"straight-flush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8994\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Flush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will know I like to watch games of victimhood poker being played out in the wild. We already established that being homosexual beats<\/a> being a black man. But what beats being gay? Ah<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Andrew Moffat MBE, assistant headteacher at\u00a0Parkfield Community School\u00a0in Saltley, has been criticised by parents for piloting No Outsiders – a programme run alongside sex and relationship education (SRE) lessons.<\/p>\n

Its ethos promotes LGBT equality and challenges homophobia in primary schools.<\/p>\n

Books now being read by pupils at Parkfield Community School include Mommy, Mama and Me and King & King – stories about same-sex relationships and marriages.<\/p>\n

But Mr Moffat and the No Outsiders programme have come under fire from some Muslim parents who condemn such teachings, as homosexuality is strictly forbidden in Islam.<\/p>\n

Mr Moffat, who is openly gay, and the school have defended the programme, which they said had been fully explained to parents. They added: “No Outsiders allows us to raise awareness of these differences so that children are able to tolerate and accept differences in our society.”<\/p>\n

But outraged mum Fatima Shah, who has taken her 10-year-old daughter out of the school, told\u00a0BirminghamLive: “It’s inappropriate, totally wrong.<\/p>\n

“Children are being told it’s OK to be gay yet 98 per cent of children at this school are Muslim. It’s a Muslim community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally I think the protesters have a point – primary school children should not be indoctrinated with sexual identity politics – but if anyone who wasn’t a member of a top-ranking protected class brought this complaint they’d be hounded from public life and likely facing criminal prosecution for hate crimes. As for Mr Moffat, he should have read the rulebook he himself helped write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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