‘Alternative lifestyles’ are being promoted to primary school pupils in the name of addressing homophobic bullying, writes Norman Wells of the Family Education Trust (FET) in June.
Stonewall have sent what they describe as a ‘ground-breaking film’ to every primary school in Britain to teach children to celebrate difference. The short clips from the film that are available on the Stonewall website indicate just how subtle and pernicious it is. In an attempt to normalise same sex relationships and alternative family types, the film, given free to each school, gives disproportionate attention to lifestyles that are far from typical.
One of the main characters featured in the film is a 10or 11-year-old girl called Emma. She says: ‘Some of my friends have one mum and one dad. Some of my friends just have one mum. Some have one dad. And some have two mums and two dads like me… I spend weekdays with the girls and weekends with the boys… It’s just normal. Some of my friends have even more mums and dads than me, and that’s cool, but four’s enough for me’. And then the words come up on the screen, ‘Emma is free’. The sub-text is clear: a homosexual lifestyle is perfectly normal. In fact, more than that, it’s positively cool and trendy – desirable even. Stonewall are telling schools that this film will help them tackle homophobic bullying, but what it’s really doing is to promote homosexuality.
