Homosexual education

Homosexual education
Radio 6PR Perth
30 November 2001 at 8:34am

Host: Paul Murray
Guest: Colin Barnett, WA Leader of the Opposition, Liberal Party

PAUL MURRAY (Host, Radio 6PR) - Well, would you want your children educated about homosexuality at their school? Many parents are even uncertain about heterosexual sex education in our schools. The prospect of teachers broaching the subject of homosexuality with their children, would certainly fill those parents with horror.

As you know, homosexual law reform is going through the WA Parliament at the moment. In a debate in the Legislative Assembly last night, Opposition leader, Colin Barnett, accused the Gallop Government of opening the door for the health curriculum of our schools to offer same sex education. This is part of what he said, he said I can tell members as just one parent, that I do not want my son as an adolescent to be exposed to same sex homosexual education in schools. And a little later he said this the Government has no mandate and no right to proceed down that path.

Well that raises an interesting point. The Gallop Government did go to the people with a well established platform of gay law reform, but I can

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