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It heard of a divisive petn, ugly and vol protts, children whdrawn om schools, accatns of homophobia and tolerance, claims of “outsi forc” and a foc – for a few fevered months – of the natn’s attentn on a small group of Birmgham primary schools where (maly) Mlim parents and protters had seemed to visibly clash wh the very notn of a morn, Brish inty. “They have suggted the school is promotg homosexualy when is not, ” he led.

But what had brought thgs to such a head: where staff were treated for strs, an openly gay assistant head said he was targeted wh threats, and the Government’s official unter-extremism body suggted “outsirs” had sought to flame parents’ relig sensivi to crease tensns? (Many Mlims nsir acts of homosexualy to be haram, or forbidn. Moffat is openly gay and thor of several books and tnal rourc.

The parents claimed their own statement that No Outsirs “falsely claims to rely on legislatn (Equaly Act 2010) jtifyg promotn of homosexualy.

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Children are expected to affirm, verbally and wrg, that “beg gay is OK”. The statement talked about “an imposn of belief, which unrm the fah, beliefs and valu poed by the parents and muny that the school serv” and stated that: “The school is promotg Mr Moffat’s personal beliefs and nvictns about the universal acceptabily of homosexualy as beg normal and morally rrect.

He had no children at any of the affected schools, but claimed he was motivated by his relig beliefs, believg that No Outsirs was proselytisg for a gay liftyle. “We are a tradnal muny – we have tradnal fay valu and morally we do not accept homosexualy as a valid sexual relatnship to have, ” he told the BBC.

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“We do not believe homosexualy but that do not make homophobic. “People are prentg to parents false ias that children are beg shown books featurg gay sex, there’s talk of groomg, talk of wantg to ‘take our kids’.

Bahm claimed that gay people “want to take our children” and lled for mass protts, sayg there was a need to show “Mlims are not asleep”. But, they said, “we should not be panrg to homophob” eher. The whole programme is promoted as an equaly for all, but only talks about homosexualy Andrew Moffat’s book.

Andrew Moffat, the assistant head at Parkfield Communy School who veloped No Outsirs, went on to lead the Birmgham Pri march last year, but said that he had “never experienced homophobia like I have the last six months”.

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