Valuing All God’s Children – confusion and danger

Lisa Nolland  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Aug 2014
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Valuing All God’s Children – confusion and danger

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A recent document on homophobic bullying and church schools has been produced and endorsed by the Church of England Archbishops’ Council Education Division and the prestigious National Society.

Entitled Valuing All God’s Children (VAGC), it aims to ensure schools are ‘safe’ places for all youngsters, and does so through warning of the evils of homophobia, and offering a decalogue of far-reaching recommendations to the nation’s 5,500 church schools.

Vehicle for sex rights activists

However, given how the issues are framed, VAGC is an excellent vehicle for sex rights activists to embed an agenda in church schools which is antithetical to core Christian morality.

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