I heard it mentioned at a church meeting tonight that a school teacher was sacked for saying something negative about homosexuality to his class
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Good!

I hope efforts are taken to ensure people with such views are kept away from influencing our children!

Having been in secondary school a mere decade (and a bit) ago I can reliably inform you that teenagers, in particular teenage boys hate gay people and make their lives a misery (where they do exist and falsely accuse where they don't) more than enough as it is without teachers encouraging them to do so!

Where do you think we get these hide in the closet homophobic's that Lemur was posting about in a topic (I assume) is still on the front page?

From a combination of teachers like the one you mentioned, combine it with rampant homophobia amongst young teenagers and then add in family members who are also hate homosexuals and you have a surefire way to produce yourself a very messed up child.