P.P.T.A. paper
Sir, —Peter Allen (P.P.T.A.) must know that teachers cannot simultaneously present homosexuality “positively” and honour their code by respecting students’ cultural and moral beliefs (August 14). That code is already negated by the Education Amendment Act which denies parents the right to remove pupils from “human relationships” lessons in the health syllabus unless they are specially designated sexual elements. Investigating “heterosexism,” as recommended by the P.P.T.A. paper, must result in altering resources to depict a false concept of life in ’ the name of equality. That is social engineering contrary to the truth about every surviving society in history. — Yours, etc.,
J. NIHONIHO. August 14, 1986. Sir,—The decision of Canterbury post-primary teachers to support a paper prohibiting discrimination against homosexual and lesbian teachers (August 16) will be of concern to many parents. Their decision is based on the dangerous and false assumption that homosexuality is an equally valid alternative lifestyle. The family, the sanctuary of new life, is and always will be the basic unit of society. Taxpayers should not be expected to support and subsidise sodomy by paying for the removal expenses of teachers’ homosexual partners and by providing rental accommodation. The Canterbury teachers also voted that resource material on homosexuality be “neutral, both in content and presentation.” How can one be neutral in presenting information about sodomy, which is intrinsically evil, against nature and dehumanising? Parents should be alert to the danger that their children in State schools may soon be subject to propaganda that homosexual relationships are as valid as heterosexual marriage.—Yours, etc.,
K. ORR. August 17, 1986.
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