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Most MPs in the Tweede Kamer supported the motion in a Tuesday vote, according to Dutch news outlet NOS.
The proposal was put forth by Socialist Party (SP) parliamentarian Jasper van Dijk, who wants schools to be fined or face administrative action if they consistently refuse to teach their students about sexual diversity.
Van Dijk, who says that providing children with LGBT education contributes to the fight against discrimination, tweeted about the motion's success following the vote.
Although all schools in the Netherlands have been required to teach the curriculum since 2012, about 20 percent of primary and high schools do not do so, according to the Education Inspectorate. The same is true for about 40 percent of regional educational centers (ROCs).
The only parties which did not support the motion were the center-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the Christian-right Reformed Political Party (SGP), and the right-wing Forum for Democracy (FvD) party.
VVD parliamentarian Dilan Yesilgoz said her party does not want to override the Education Inspectorate, stating that it also prefers to evaluate school curriculum as a whole, rather than focus on one part.
The motion will now be moved to the upper house of parliament.
The LGBT-friendly proposal comes after heterosexual Dutch men across the Netherlands and elsewhere held hands with other men earlier this month, in a symbol of solidarity after a hand-holding gay couple was attacked in Arnhem. Images of the movement were posted on social media under the hashtag #allemannenhandinhand (all men, holding hands).
Reader Comments
This is begs further a question which I never discovered answers to -
- what Is it about women that is so abhorrent to these men?
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Evidently homosexuals men have no interest in the survival of the human race.
If nothing else, this act of intellectual idiocy or complicity will force the Dutch people to engage with their catalyst.... isn't it the same for us all? the best stuff isn't asked for, but given... freely, usually when you least expect it or want it... that's what makes it so special... just like this vote in the Dutch parliament... as the puppets in play there see how far they can go... revolution meme is still the desired one, no?
In any musical score or novel the pace changes. Yet here we are living the same tempo as mankind has been playing for too long. Violence, aggression and war are not the pathways to the ascension, transcension or transmutation. Something tells me these elusive alchemical goals are more easily achievable by pursuing a mindful journey of truth, justice, fairness, proportionality, heterosexual love, kindness, generosity, grace and other attributes of a similar vein.