Relationships Education: LGBT Content
Debate between Lloyd Russell-Moyle and Peter Dowd(9 months ago)
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle
I am very interested in the hon. Gentleman’s analogy, but it is a bit unclear. Is he saying that we should not teach what two plus two equals at all? In other words, is he saying that we should not teach anything around relationships, including straight relationships and that there are parents, mothers and fathers? Or is he saying that he wants that to be taught, but that the only outcome he wants is that people have to be straight? That is what is not clear.
Every book, whether it be Enid Blyton, Harry Potter or whatever, mentions relationships and we talk about them when we teach literature to children. In primary schools, children are taught about how a hen lays an egg, and the egg hatches—
Lloyd Russell-Moyle
It would be great to know what the hon. Gentleman wants: only straight, or nothing?