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Contents:

• CATHOLIC CHURCH BANS VIS BY GAY THOR TO LONDON SCHOOL
• WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WH THE ‘GAY THOR’ AND JOHN FISHER SCHOOL
• SCHOOL'S DCE NCELS THOR VIS AND REMOV ERNORS OVER APPROVAL OF BOOK WH GAY CHARACTER
• BAN ON GAY THOR VIS AT JOHN FISHER SCHOOL IS ‘GOG BACK TO SECTN 28 BY STEALTH’, TEACHERS SAY
• GAY THOR’S SCHOOL VIS NCELLED BY CATHOLIC DCE AFTER ANTI-LGBT+ SMEAR MPAIGN

CATHOLIC CHURCH BANS VIS BY GAY THOR TO LONDON SCHOOL

The Catholic church has banned a vis to a London school by a gay thor and removed a number of ernors who supported the event, a move that has drawn parisons to the notor 1980s sectn 28 ban on “promotg homosexualy” church said a vis by Simon Jam Green, an acclaimed thor of books for children and young adults, fell “outsi the spe of what is permissible a Catholic school” had been due to speak and sign books on Monday at John Fisher boys’ school Purley, south London, a voluntary-aid fah school overseen by the Catholic archdce of Southwark. ”Sectn 28, which prohibed lol thori om “promotg homosexualy”, was troduced by Margaret Thatcher’s ernment rponse to a children’s book, Jenny Liv Wh Eric and Mart, pictg different kds of a statement issued a few days before the John Fisher event, the archdce said s schools were required to “liver a programme of relatnships and sex tn that is pliant wh the Equali Act 2010 and Magisterium [teachg] of the Catholic church” add: “From time to time, materials or events emerge for nsiratn that fall outsi the spe of what is permissible a Catholic school … In such circumstanc, we have no alternative but to affirm our unequivol and well-known theologil and moral precepts and to act acrdance wh them.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WH THE ‘GAY THOR’ AND JOHN FISHER SCHOOL

A planned vis by a gay thor to a Catholic school south London was ncelled after Southwark Archdce tervened and removed ernors who backed the Jam Green was due to take part a discsn at The John Fisher School, a Catholic boys’ sendary school, Croydon. His novel, Noah Can’t Even, featur a gay Southwark Archdce, which overse the school, said a statement om tn director Simon Hugh that "om time to time materials and events emerge for nsiratn that fall outsi the spe of what is permissible a Catholic school". A cisn to ban a gay thor om speakg at a Catholic school south London is a return to “Sectn 28 by stealth”, teachers have said.

Last month, Southwark Archdce tervened to ncel a talk by Mr Green, whose books for young adults feature gay characters. On Tuday, the se was highlighted durg a bate on homophobia schools at the NEU’s annual nference Bournemouth.

SCHOOL'S DCE NCELS THOR VIS AND REMOV ERNORS OVER APPROVAL OF BOOK WH GAY CHARACTER

Teachers pared the cint to Sectn 28 – the famo law which banned uncils om “promotn of homosexualy” until was scrapped 2003.

” Thomas Prec, an openly gay sendary school teacher, said that the whole of his tn had taken place “unr the spectre of Sectn 28”. Gay thor Simon Jam Green has been blocked om visg a Catholic state school by the lol dce after an anti-LGBT+ mpaign. Yet Catholic Tth rears suggted the ments that “a homosexual thor of teenage fictn visg a Catholic school is 100 per cent as much of an issue as the ongog war Ukrae”.

BAN ON GAY THOR VIS AT JOHN FISHER SCHOOL IS ‘GOG BACK TO SECTN 28 BY STEALTH’, TEACHERS SAY

School thrown to turmoil by ll to ncel gay thor event. Speakg to the i, Simon Jam Green said that the cint remd him of Sectn 28, which banned the “promotn of homosexualy” schools the late 80s through to the early 00s.

“We’re alg here wh people who actually thk ’s possible to basilly turn someone gay by talkg about or by allowg them to read or see on televisn an LGBT+ person, ” he said.

GAY THOR’S SCHOOL VIS NCELLED BY CATHOLIC DCE AFTER ANTI-LGBT+ SMEAR MPAIGN

LGBT+ bookshop Queer L is nng a school donatn programme  rponse to the censorship by the Catholic dce, and Green’s upg book Gay Club n be pre-orred at st price to be donated to a UK school.