The Catholic Schools Trustee Service (CSTS) has called on parents in Northern Ireland to express their concerns by responding to the Department of Education’s Relationships and Sexuality Education Consultation, saying it seeks to impose an abortion ideology on schools.

Bishop Donal McKeown, who is the chair of CSTS said that “the expectation that schools should become engaged in the delivery of an allegedly neutral curriculum which highlights access to abortion shows no understanding of the foundational principles of Catholic education.”

The CSTS calls on parents, carers and others, who share its concerns on the proposed curriculum, to express these by responding to the Department’s consultation before it closes on 24 November next.

The Trustees Service said it believes that the legislation brought forward through Westminster by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in June of this year, places significant new responsibilities on Board of Governors and Principals.

The legislation “directly undermines the rights of parents” and “challenges the rights of Trustees to promote a faith-based education within the largest education sector in Northern Ireland,” they said.

[This is all a result of allowing the UN to take precedence over national sovereignty. They’ve apparently incorporated the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) report directly into UK law and now school systems, especially religious ones, are going WAIT A MINUTE HERE. Might be too late. ~ Beege]