Family First National Director and NSW Legislative Council candidate Lyle Shelton has re-confirmed that Family First candidates contesting the upcoming Victorian and New South Wales elections will push to remove all LGBTQA+ ideological programs and activism from schools if elected.
Mr Shelton said parents were increasingly alarmed that schools were moving beyond education into social engineering and exposing children to highly contested gender and sexuality ideologies without proper parental consent.
His comments follow protests this week outside Reynella East College in South Australia over the school’s celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT).
Mr Shelton said Family First stood with concerned parents and grandparents who believed children should not be exposed to activist messaging on gender identity and sexuality at school.
“Parents send their children to school to learn reading, writing, maths and critical thinking — not to be immersed in radical gender ideology,” Mr Shelton said.
“Family First candidates in Victoria and NSW will fight to remove all LGBTQA+ indoctrination programs from schools and restore the rights of parents to guide the moral formation of their children.”
Mr Shelton directly backed comments made by protest organiser Luke Poulton, who told media: “My problem is that kindy and junior primary kids are subject to stuff that, until a later age, you shouldn’t even be thinking about or shouldn’t even be on the minds of these tiny little kids.”
Mr Poulton also said: “I don’t think at that age it is appropriate at all to even be witnessing a single thing about it.”
“Luke Poulton is articulating what countless Australian parents feel but are often too intimidated to say publicly,” Mr Shelton said.
“It is entirely reasonable for parents to object to activist sexuality and gender messaging being normalised for children.
“Children should never be bullied or mistreated, but respect for others does not require schools to promote contested ideological worldviews about sex and gender,” he said.
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