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DfE in hot water for ‘not British to be gay’ tweet
Tory Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is under pressure to apologise after a message posted on her department’s Twitter account suggested it is not British to be gay.
The message from the Department for Education account said: “Nonsense to say schools ‘must teach gay rights.’ We want schools to teach broad curric based on British values.”
The seemingly unprovoked attack on LGBT people sparked a might backlash on Twitter, especially from teachers.
One teacher replied: “Ok — do you think that gay people shouldn’t have rights or children shouldn’t be taught to respect those rights? Or both?”
And another user wrote: “So … inequality and homophobia is a British value? Nice. I’m moving country.”
