EX-CABINET MINISTER: ‘PARENTS KNOW BEST’ FOR KIDS ON SEX EDUCATION

Dear marriage supporter, Esther McVey MP has said what parents around the country know: they’re ideally placed to decide what relationships teaching their young children receive at school. McVey, who twice voted against same-sex marriage in 2013, told Sky News: “I believe parents know best for their children”. And despite the ensuing criticism, McVey refused to tread the well-worn path of sidelining parents. While expressing support for LGBT issues being taught in school, she maintained, “the people who should know whether it is age-relevant are the parents not the state”. We agree: Parents know best. Hong Kong opposes SSM – like over 160 countries around the world “It’s the only form of marriage the world knew before 2001”. The words of Hong Kong Government lawyer Stewart Wong Kai-ming SC, referring to traditional marriage – 2001 being the year the Netherlands became the first country to introduce same-sex marriage. Wong was putting the case against an attempt to redefine marriage in Hong Kong through the courts. We might be surprised to see a government defending true marriage – but we shouldn’t be. More than 80% of the countries of the world still don’t have same-sex marriage.