{"id":189351,"date":"2019-06-04T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T07:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189351"},"modified":"2019-06-06T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T06:17:00","slug":"muslim-parents-banned-from-protesting-lgbt-lessons-outside-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189351","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Parents Banned from Protesting LGBT Lessons Outside School"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Joe Markham \u2013 Breibart June 2, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Protests-over-LGBT-lessons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-189353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Protests-over-LGBT-lessons-1024x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Protests-over-LGBT-lessons-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Protests-over-LGBT-lessons-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Protests-over-LGBT-lessons-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Protests-over-LGBT-lessons.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Birmingham City Council has won a High Court order to ban protests about LGBT relationship lessons in and around Anderton Park Primary School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As children return to school after the half-term break, parents and other protesters face arrest if they appear on or in the proximity of the school grounds to protest about the teaching of LGBT relationships to their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In recent weeks the predominately Muslim parents have been seen carrying signs that read \u201cAdam and Eve Not Adam and Steve\u201d and \u201cSay No to Sexualisation of children\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The protestors argue the content is not age-appropriate for their children and teaching them about gay relationships would confuse them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Under the terms of the new High Court order, the protestors can be arrested if they breach the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/council-wins-injunction-banning-mass-16363059\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>following conditions<\/strong><\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cOrganise, engage in, or encourage others to engage in any protests against the teaching of equalities at the school within an exclusion zone<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Print and hand out leaflets, organise protest events or encourage others to do so<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Use social media to make offensive or abusive comments about any members of staff at the school around equalities teaching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A council spokesperson said of introducing the order, \u201cWe did so only after careful consideration and in the light of increasing fears for the safety and wellbeing of the staff, children and parents of the school when they come back from their half-term break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThis is particularly so after the serious escalation of the protests in the week before half-term \u2013 including the attendance of very large numbers of people who have no children at the school, many of whom are not from the city,\u201d they added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exodus from LGBT \u2018Brainwash\u2019 School as Muslim Parents Take 600 Children Out of Class <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7jb7kIsnx4\">https:\/\/t.co\/7jb7kIsnx4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1102701319658356736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is reported that many of the activists do not even have children at the school, with some coming in from neighbouring areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They claim that up to 600 children were withdrawn from lessons by their parents in response to the LGBT relationship curriculum \u2014 which would be a majority of the children enrolled there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Headmistress Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson claimed she was <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/05\/22\/muslim-parents-pelt-lgbt-activists-eggs-row-equality-lessons\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reduced to tears<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by abuse from the protesting parents, saying their demonstrations were very becoming \u201cvery loud\u201d and \u201cvery aggressive\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;How have you become so intolerant to us?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>An activist confronts Labour MP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessphillips?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JessPhillips<\/a>, as she calls for an exclusion zone around a Birmingham primary school that&#39;s seen protests over teaching LGBT rights<\/p>\n<p>[tap to expand] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PCII2juCmC\">https:\/\/t.co\/PCII2juCmC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lMZ82Noid0\">pic.twitter.com\/lMZ82Noid0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCPolitics\/status\/1130480990600744960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Earlier this month, LGBT counter-protesters also began attending the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One woman said she was called a \u201cvandal\u201d for hanging rainbow banners around the school gates and a mobile phone recording allegedly of one of the Muslim protestors appeared to show them warn that \u201cpeople want to come to our area and cause anarchy. I have to hold all the lads back because everyone is becoming very volatile\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The LGBT activists also claim they were pelted with eggs by the anti-LGBT protestors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Honor Bridgman, one of the LGBT activists, said they had \u201cstood by and observed these protests for weeks. We felt we wanted to do something, in a loving way. We have consciously not organized counter-protests as we feel that would make matters worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;God created women for men&#39;s pleasure.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Not just homophobic bit sexist too. These pretend-parents demonstrating outside Birmingham schools against LGBT classes aren&#39;t just a danger to other Muslims but a disgrace in general.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pGS1uCT3C4\">https:\/\/t.co\/pGS1uCT3C4<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rL9e5afd16\">pic.twitter.com\/rL9e5afd16<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunny_hundal\/status\/1130097879039791104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Shakeel Afsar, who reportedly leads the protests \u2014 despite not having children at the school himself \u2014 said that they would appeal against the exclusion zone decision, stating that \u201cthis is not the end but a beginning\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/06\/02\/muslim-parents-banned-from-protesting-about-lgbt-lessons\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the protest leaders said they would the appeal against the exclusion zone decision, stating that: \u201cthis is not the end but a beginning\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189354,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189351\/revisions\/189354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}