400.muslim parents petitioned against lgbtq acceptance
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Local MPs own also become deeply interested, some of whom have failed to appreciate the dynamics of the situation.
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This weekend, the metropolis of Birmingham hosted a dazzling array of colourful floats, sparkling costumes, and groups bearing a message of romance and equality as part of its annual celebration of Gay Pride. However, in an unprecedented move, this particular march was led by LGBT Muslims. Often subjected to discrimination and ostracisation by their control religious communities, and shunned by certain sections of wider LGBT communities for adhering to any form of religion, LGBT Muslims are in a tie. Some people even maintain that the term is an oxymoron. Yet it is precisely adolescent Muslims—who might be experiencing profound questions about their sexuality or identity, and torn between two different sets of expectations—who have the most to drop as a finding of the LGBT schools row engulfing the city.
It was therefore encouraging to see them front Gay Pride this year, alongside someone who has done more for equality and diversity than 99 percent o
School revolt as Muslim parents object to LGBT equality classes for their children and petition for the subject to be dropped from the curriculum
A school has defended teaching pupils about homosexuality after religious parents signed a petition for the subject to be dropped.
Up to 400 predominantly Muslim parents signed up, with some even taking their children out of the primary school.
They are protesting against the No Outsiders In Our Institution programme, which is taught as part of sex and relationship lessons to promote LGBT equality and challenge homophobia at school.
Andrew Moffat, assistant head lecturer of Parkfield Community Educational facility in Birmingham, said he had been threatened in a leaflet handed out by campaigners.
Mr Moffat, who is gay, said he faced angry protests by parents who gathered at the school gates.
Parent Fatima Shah, pictured, pulled her ten-year-old daughter out of the school, saying it was ‘inappropriate’ and ‘totally wrong’
A similar dispute with Muslim and Christian parents in December 2013 forced him to resign from another primary school in Birmingham.
The programme involves five lessons a year for children aged from four to 11, in which they re
School To Discuss Parent Concerns About Curriculum, After Protests Over LGBT+ Education
A central school that taught children about LGBT+ relationships in an effort to combat homophobia and instil the right to equality in the next generation has said it will grasp discussions to address parent concerns about the curriculum after 80 per cent of its pupils were withdrawn by parents in activism. The school has also said that it will not be delivering the lessons up to the end of term.
Parkfield Collective School has faced a backlash by predominantly Muslim parents over its ‘No Outsiders’ programme, which uses same-sex stories and activities to instil knowledge and acceptance of homosexual relationships in children between the ages of four and 11.
The school in Alum Rock, Birmingham, had written to parents asking for the “upsetting” weekly protests staged outside its gates to stop, which hold seen chants of “shame” from crowds and signs including “education not indoctrination”.
The curriculum, designed to get together the requirements of the Equality Act, was existence piloted with five lessons each year featuring stories such as Mommy, Mama and Me and King & King to instruct the children t
Parents, Not Government, Should Decide How To Teach Their Kids About LGBT Issues
"They need to be allowed to be children rather than having to constantly think about equalities and rights."
That's the explanation Fatima Shah has given for temporarily pulling her 10-year-old daughter out of school in Birmingham, England. She is one of apparently hundreds of Muslim parents who object to a newly developed institution program to coach children the basics of LGBT issues.
Now some primary schools in England are suspending this program, called No Outsiders, developed by educator Andrew Moffat, in order to argue the issue with parents who argue against to Moffat's curriculum. A petition signed by 400 parents calls for it to be dropped from the schools.
Here's more from Shah in The Guardian in January:
Shah claimed her children were becoming "confused" about homosexuality and that the local community's concerns were not being taken on board. She said: "We own nothing against Mr. Moffat – we are as British as they appear. We respect the British values … but the issue is, he is not respecting our ethos as a community.
"We don't transmit our children to school to absorb about LGBT. We
MAHMOUD v. TAYLOR
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the Combined States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the Joined States, Washington, D. C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors.
SUPREME COURT OF THE Combined STATES
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No. 24–297
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Tamer Mahmoud, et al., PETITIONERS v. Thomas W. Taylor, et al.
on writ of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fourth circuit
[June 27, 2025]
Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Board of Education of Montgomery County, Maryland (Board), has introduced a variety of “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks into the elementary school curriculum. These books—and associated educational instructions provided to teachers—are designed to “disrupt” children’s thinking about sexuality and gender. The Board has told parents that it will not give them notice when the books are going to be used and that their children’s attendance during those periods is mandatory. A group of parents from diverse religious backgrounds sued to enjoin those policies. They assert that th