Friday, June 29, 2007

75% of gay kids in faith schools suffer homophobic bullying

"Homophobic bullying plagues the majority of UK schools and shocking levels of bullying are meted out to school pupils and teachers who either are gay or perceived to be gay.

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That figure jumps to 75% of young gay people attending faith schools.

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In faith schools, religious disapproval and thoughtless disregard for LGB issues, compounds the tendencies of bullies to target gay and lesbian students even more."

Pinknews.co.uk, 26th June 2007



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