Officials at the Department for Education are looking into dozens of schools and academies whose official sex education policies include clauses replicating Section 28, the law which was blamed for discrimination against gay people.
Sources said ministers were “concerned” about the disclosures, following research from the British Humanist Association, which campaigns against faith schools.
It comes amid international controversy over a law passed in the Russian parliament banning the promotion of homosexuality, an issue which Stephen Fry, the broadcaster, recently raised with David Cameron.
Section 28, introduced by the Thatcher Government, was a clause in the Local Government Act 1988 which forbade councils from allowing teaching which promoted the “acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”.
It was repealed by Tony Blair in 2003, with support from Conservatives. » | John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor | Monday, August 19, 2013
