OPINION (FW) – A British high court has ruled that concerned parents will no longer be allowed to protest the introduction of LGBT awareness lessons at a Birmingham elementary school. Birmingham City Council applied for a high court injunction to enforce an exclusion zone after parents began to gather outside the school, protesting the controversial new lessons. The Council insists it applied for the injunction
“after the serious escalation of the protests in the week before half-term,” which they say included the “attendance of very large numbers of people who have no children at the school, many of whom are not from the city.” Despite many of the parents holding legitimate concerns about not being adequately briefed on the LGBT classes and not having any influence in the school’s decision to run the curriculum – many of the parents are from an Islamic background. READ MORE
