Has The Scottish Parliament Failed LGBT Children?

<p>In a decision branded "shocking", the Scottish Parliament has rejected a call to include LGBTI+ education in Scottish schools.</p> <p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4625911816.jpg" width="460" height="375" alt="" title="" /></p> <p>Read more ...</p><p></p><p>Yesterday morning, (Tuesday 12th Jan), <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/tiecampaign">a petition put forward</a> asking the "Scottish government to make the teaching of LGBTI+ issues and topics statutory” was unanimously rejected by representatives of Scotland's three major parties <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jamieross/scottish-parliament-rejects-lgbt-petition">according to Buzzfeed</a>.</p><p></p><p>The group of MSPs said it was unable to ask the Scottish government to force through education about LGBTI inclusion in its schools.</p><p></p><p>The co-founder of the TIE campaign, Jordan Daly, said: </p><p></p><p>“Absolutely the wrong decision has been made here. How many more children are going to have to attempt suicide or take a razor to their flesh before we get somewhere?</p><p></p><p>“The government’s current strategy to address this is not working. To close our case on technicality is shocking: there was no further consideration of any of the strategies or solutions that we handed to the committee</p><p></p><p>“With the lack of governmental commitment to tackle these issues, it is setting us on a trajectory whereby they will still be here in ten years time.”</p><p></p><p>Campaigners have vowed that they will continue their fight for LGBT education to be included in the curriculum, calling the rejection a “setback, nothing more."</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Labour <a href="http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14200274.Campaigners_vow_to_continue_LGBT_education_fight_after_Holyrood_petition_is_rejected/">MSP Michael McMahon said there</a> was a lot of sympathy for the campaign, but added, </p><p></p><p>"I don’t think we can ask the government to do what the petitioner asked, which was to set something in the curriculum, and force local authorities to teach it in the way they were asking.</p><p></p><p>"I think they may understand that and I think they raised a very important issue but I don’t think there is anything more we can do with the petition."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p>