Gays: The Great Debate - Section 28: Hands off Our Schools; Head Attacks Gay Propaganda the Moral Well-Being of Our Children Has Become the Debating Ground of Peers, Politicians and Teachers over Controversial Plans to Change the Law Governing the Promotion of Homosexuality in Schools. Mail Education Correspondent TONY COLLINS Examines the Issues and Speaks to People at the Cutting Edge of the Controversy

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PHILIP Williams is in no doubt what will happen if legislation preventing the promotion of homosexuality in classrooms around the country is scrapped.

He fears that schools will immediately become flooded with material actively promoting gay sex - putting added pressure on already impressionable young minds.

Mr Williams, head teacher of a primary school in Redditch, Worcestershire, has 21 years of teaching experience to qualify him for his views, with children aged four to 18 being under his charge at some point.

He says, somewhat disappointedly, "As a head teacher I feel I am in a minority, but this is something we have to flag up and say is wrong.

"I am very concerned at the effect on children who are at an age when they are so vulnerable and …