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  Local Government Bill - Maintain Prohibition on Promotion of Homosexuality (Section 28)
  
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  @ MP voted aye to maintain a ban on the promotion of homosexuality in schools.
  @ MP voted no to repeal a ban on the promotion of homosexuality in schools.
  
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to repeal a ban on the promotion of homosexuality in schools.
  
  
  The Majority of MPs voted to keep a clause in the Local Government Bill[1] designed to repeal the section in the Local Government Act 1986 that says:[2]
  
  A local authority shall not
  * intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality;
  * promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.
  
  The insertion of this section into the law had been as a result of the controversial [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28 Section 28] which was part of the Local Government Act 1988.[3]
  
  The amendment which was rejected by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment: No. 8, in page 70, line 41, leave out Clause 119.
  
  Clause 119 of the Bill became clause 122 in the Act[4] and stated:
  
  :[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/10/section/2A Section 2A of the Local Government Act 1986 (c. 10) (local authorities prohibited from promoting homosexuality)] ceases to have effect. 
  
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  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmbills/ Local Government Bill], Clause 119, 13 February 2003
  * [2] [http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=Local+Government+Act+&Year=1986&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=452113&ActiveTextDocId=452120&filesize=8764 Local Government Act 1986], Clause 2A,  Prohibition on promoting homosexuality by teaching or by publishing material
  * [3] [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/ukpga_19880009_en_5#pt4-pb1-l1g28 Local Government Act 1988], Section 28
  * [4] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/26/section/122 Clause 122 of the Local Government Act 2003]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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