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A number of UK’s organisations are also calling for sex-education lessons to discuss how marriage can prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Religious groups responding to the government’s plans to introduce statutory relationships and sex education from primary school onwards are campaigning against the idea of teaching same-sex marriage.
Some of these groups are also calling for lessons in how marriage can prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections.

The Department for Education’s consultation on the content of the relationships and sex education curriculum closed on Monday February 19th, 2018. This drew responses from campaigners, teachers and parents, as well as a range of religious groups.

Six organizations outside the mainstream have written to the government to express their opposition to the fact that the new relationships and sex education curriculum could include discussion of same-sex marriage and transgender issues.

The Coalition for Marriage, a predominantly Christian campaign group, said that primary-school children “are not able to critically assess complex adult sexual relationships, particularly same-sex marriage, and so neither these nor transgenderism should be taught.

“Instead we believe that parents are best placed to determine how and when young children encounter these concepts,” the response said.
The National Association of Jewish Orthodox Schools also appeared reluctant to include the word “sex”, in its response.