From here:

A senior teacher has been suspended from his £50,000-a-year job after he complained that a training day for staff was used to promote gay rights.

Kwabena Peat, 54, was one of several Christian staff who walked out of the compulsory session at a North London school after an invited speaker questioned why people thought heterosexuality was natural.

The presentation was given by Sue Sanders, a co-founder of the Schools Out organisation which campaigns for gay equality in education.

According to Mr Peat, Ms Sanders, herself a lesbian, said that staff who did not accept that being gay was normal had ‘issues’ they had to deal with.

She started promoting homosexual lifestyles and suggesting those who had objections should sort out their prejudices. She said, “What makes you all think that to be heterosexual is natural?” It was at that point I walked out.’

By saying “What makes you all think that to be heterosexual is natural” one assumes that Sue Sanders is not about to make the case for heterosexual sex being supernatural; the point she is attempting to make is that, in the view of equality commissars, a homosexual act is no more contrary to nature’s intent than a heterosexual one. Little argument is given for this: we have already moved beyond discussion to enforcement.

Why might homosexual activity not be nature’s norm? The reasons don’t seem to be beyond the reach of common sense:

First, the plumbing is wrong.

Second, for those who believe we are here through natural selection, the homosexual gene – if it exists – is a dead end gene that eventually should be selected out; hardly a case for normality. The fact that it has not been either means we haven’t given it enough time, or we are not here through natural selection.

Third, if there is no homosexual gene, gayness becomes a lifestyle choice; it has no more claim to normality than any other unusual lifestyle choices. Most lifestyle eccentrics are proud of their peculiarities: to canvas for recognition of normality for freely chosen foibles would be self-defeating. No self-respecting eccentric wishes to be reduced to hum-drum, mediocre normality.

Forth, to bring in religion, all major faiths maintain that God’s design is for heterosexual sex within marriage – I am excluding Western Anglicanism since it isn’t a major faith.

This is for those who are still unconvinced of the crusade to impose the religion of gayness on those who would rather not, thank you all the same:

Family in 11th-hour legal battle to halt brothers’ adoption by gay couple

Two young brothers face adoption by a gay couple despite the desperate protests of their mother, grandparents and extended family.

The grandparents, an aunt and an uncle have all offered to give the boys, aged six and nine, a loving home but they say social workers have turned them down without explanation.

Not to mention this, this and these moribund twitchings of a dying ex-Christian cult.

Not only is there a gay crusade, it is succeeding; governments and the Anglican church jump at its behest. It is committed to the destruction of the traditional family and is prepared to sacrifice anything and anyone that gets in its way.

Something special for monarchists to ponder:

Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay rights group Stonewall, says the review is an ideal opportunity to end similar discrimination against homosexuals.

He wants measures to let future generations of Royals take part in a same-sex wedding – without losing their right to inherit the throne.

If this happens we could easily end up with a King and – er – Queen.

When I was in school we used to play truant on the simple principle that we could learn more interesting things outside school than inside; our parents would take the contrary view, hinting that, if we continued in this direction we would come to no good. Now, parents of primary school children are removing their charges from school to avoid tendentious homosexual indoctrination. Who can blame them? The Waltham Forest Council can, apparently:

Parents face court action for removing children from gay history lessons.

Parents face possible court action for withdrawing their children from lessons on gay and lesbian history.

More than 30 pupils were pulled out of a week of teaching at a primary school which included books about homosexual partnerships.

The controversial content was worked into the curriculum at George Tomlinson School in Waltham Forest, East London.

A spokesman for Waltham Forest Council said: ‘As part of the borough’s policy of promoting tolerance in our schools, children are taught that everyone in our society is of equal value.

‘The council does not condone any unauthorised absence from school and action has been taken.’

A part of the borough’s policy of promoting tolerance is evidently being completely intolerant of parents who don’t agree with the school curriculum. And they clearly think that everyone in our society is of equal value as long as you are not someone challenging the prevailing cultural prejudices; if you are, they will sue you.

In the 21st Century, we call this academic freedom.

Raising the rainbow flag in Wales:

A gay pride flag has been flying above a police headquarters.

The flag to be hoisted to mark “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual History Month” at North Wales Police, where Richard Brunstrom, the controversial chief constable is in charge.

However anger is growing about flying the flag, and whether special interest groups should be perceived to be favoured by the police.

David Jones, Tory MP for Clwyd West, called it “political tokenism”.

He added : “I can’t see any reason why any flag other than the Union Flag and the Red Dragon of Wales should fly outside our police headquarters.

“This is tokenism and posturing. People want to see their police force focus on fighting crime, not getting involved in political tokenism and gestures.”

Welsh police posturing instead of fighting crime, ducky:

In the UK, perversion trumps family; from Melanie Phillips:

To place children with two gay men when an adoptive mother and father are available, just to uphold a brutal dogma, is a sickening assault on family life.

The case in Edinburgh reported today, where precisely this grotesque development has occurred, illustrates the sickening way in which what started out as a decent attempt to be tolerant towards a minority lifestyle has turned into a totalitarian assault upon family life and human rights.

For two years these grandparents fought for their right to care for the children, a five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister, whose 26-year-old mother is a recovering heroin addict. But at 46 and 59 they were ruled to be too old to adopt.

Reluctantly, therefore, they agreed to the children being adopted by another couple, on the basis they would be brought up by a loving mother and father figure. But although several heterosexual couples were available to adopt them, the children were handed over instead to two gay men.

When the devastated grandparents objected they were threatened that unless they dropped their opposition they would never see their grandchildren again on account of their ‘negative’ attitude towards gay adoption.

If anyone should be standing up for the family and denouncing this type of state fascism, it is the Church.

Instead, the Western Anglican church has given its tacit approval by capitulating to a corrupt culture. Anglican prelates declare that being gay is a gift from God; pagan Canadian bishops bless as holy something that isn’t – those that aren’t yet, will soon; Rowan Williams, the Druid in Charge opines dreamily that gay sex is equivalent to marriage.

Demented, cowardly bishops, having abandoned two millennia of doctrine, declare that their slavish, grovelling obeisance to the Zeitgeist is actually prophetic.

Lord have mercy.

From the Globe

Defence to invoke gay marriage as polygamy trial begins in B.C.

Same-sex marriage, they said, would be the slippery slope to polygamy.

Just a few short years after Canadians engaged in a caustic debate over whether two men, or two women, should be allowed to marry, the prognosticators will find out if they are vindicated – however unhappily.

The lawyer for Winston Blackmore, the man with 19 wives in the B.C. religious community of Bountiful who is to appear in court today on polygamy charges, says he will cite Canada’s gay-marriage laws as part of his defence.

It’s an argument that people on both sides of the same-sex marriage fight were expecting: If same-sex marriage is justified under Charter rights to equality, then polygamy is justified under the Charter’s protection of religious freedom.

And why not? In fact why not homosexual polygamy? If we have redefined marriage to mean something other than what it has been for the last 2000 years, let’s just keep going.

And if you would like to marry 20 people in a church, come to the diocese of Niagara; by the time you get here pseudo-bishop Michael Bird will probably have discerned – with integrity – that polygamy is just fine.