Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has requested an investigation into the taxpayer funded Safe Schools program – an initiative which literally aims to make schools a safer place for LGBTQI students – after some Coalition backbenchers expressed concerns.
Apparently, they thought it would “indoctrine children into a Marxist agenda of cultural relativism.” Not a joke:
One MP raised safe schools program re “indoctrinate children into Marxist agenda of cultural relativism” and six other MPs spoke
— Samantha Maiden (@samanthamaiden) February 23, 2016
One of them is – SURPRISE MO’FUKKERS! – the notoriously homophobic Senator Cory Bernardi, who has been campaigning for weeks for the program to be canned.
Bernardi’s terrible grasping of the issue is so profound that he actually told ABC Radio that the program was seeing children “being bullied and intimidated into complying with a radical program,” an argument so flimsy it would drop in a light breeze. Children being bullied?? Whoever heard of such a thing?! Oh, that’s right. Literally thousands of young LGBTQI kids.
“It’s not about gender, it’s not about sexuality,” Bernardi told the ABC. “It makes everyone fall into line with a political agenda. Our schools should be places of learning, not indoctrination.”
Last week, he wrote on his blog (lol) that the Safe Schools program was written by “homosexual activists” and “encourages children as young as 11 to become advocates for the homosexual cause.”
“The course materials make all manner of ridiculous claims. They insist that asking about the gender of a newborn reinforces a ‘heteronormative worldview’ and promotes homophobia. To utilise the same terminology against these fools; they are clearly being heterophobic!”
“Homophobia should be no more tolerated than racism, especially in the school environment. However, it is essential that all material is age appropriate and that parents have confidence in any resources used in a school to support the right of all students, staff and families to feel safe at school.”
Back in 2014 when the program was launched, Liberal Senator for Victoria Scott Ryan said it was “simply the right thing to do,” and that “every student has a right to feel safe at school,” with the aim of the program to end bullying and discrimination in a time when technology had moved bullying from the playground to online.
Can we, like, replace Bernardi w/ you, please?
Image: ABC.
