The teacher behind the ‘No Outsiders’ curriculum which caused protests outside his Birmingham school in 2019, said in April that he now doesn’t expect people to celebrate LGBT lifestyles.
He said he received a letter of praise for the curriculum from a Church of England vicar who suggested that tolerating LGBT was realistic and celebrating it all was not. Andrew Moffat said that: ‘…stuck in my throat. My initial response was to accuse him of being homophobic and of asking me to accept his homophobia.’
‘But, on reflection, I realised all he was asking for was to be allowed to tolerate rather than celebrate. Is that an unreasonable request? I may get a backlash from the LGBT community, but I think I am being realistic. To say “I know you are Muslim, gay, black” is not inviting people to make any judgement. They just need to know.’
