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Child protector suspended for stand against homosexual child agenda
LifeSiteNews.com – November 19, 2010
UK councilor objects to Ian McKellan in-school gay talks, gets suspended
By Hilary White
BRISTOL – A Conservative party councilor in Bristol has been “voluntarily suspended” and asked by the party to meet with homosexualist activists after he objected to appearances by a prominent homosexualist campaigner and actor, Sir Ian McKellen, at local schools. Chris Windows, the representative for Henbury, told a public meeting of the Bristol City Council on Tuesday night that he objected to McKellen speaking to school children about being homosexual. “I am unhappy and a little disturbed at the involvement of Stonewall in our local schools and particularly the use of a certain leading actor as a potential role model for our impressionable young people.”
A Conservative Party statement after Windows’ remarks became public said: “In light of the controversy surrounding the remarks made by Councillor Chris Windows, from Bristol city council, he has agreed to voluntarily suspend himself from all his council responsibilities for an appropriate period. He has asked the Conservative group to decide upon the length of his voluntary suspension.”
Sir Ian McKellen had visited the southwest city of Bristol last week to talk to pupils at City Academy in Lawrence Hill and Fairfield High School in Horfield about “homophobic bullying.” The renowned actor began his campaign promoting homosexuality in schools in 2008 with the approval of local councils, trading on the popularity of the Lord of the Rings films in which he played the revered character of Gandalf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic epic.
Windows made the comment during the council’s discussion of a plan for “community cohesion,” an increasingly hot-button topic in British politics.
He denied that he was “homophobic,” saying that he was concerned that “confused” students at the schools would be identified as homosexual and bullied.