Michael Gove, the Conservative leadership contender and a former Education Secretary, says that primary school children should be taught that there are families with two parents of the same-sex.
Weighing in on the debate over LGBT equality, he condemned protests outside primary schools by parents opposed to their children being taught about alternative family set-ups on religious grounds.
Mr Gove said as Education Secretary he had introduced the compulsory teaching of British values in schools to ensure young people learned the “importance of tolerance and respect for people who are different to them,” the educational magazine TES reported him as saying.
“I believe that teaching children that some people have two mums and two dads is an important part of preparing them for life in modern Britain,” he said.
