n their throat or not. Surely the government should be able to deduce from this that gays and lesbians who have been brought up in a ‘straight’ society have not altered their ways of life because of pressure, therefore heterosexuals are not likely to want to turn gay simply because they know that this way of life exists.Over the past few years, bullying and crimes against people who are different in any way has been a huge problem. The government claims to want to solve this problem, yet enforces bigoted rules like Clause 28 upon us. It is a widely known fact that people are afraid of things they are unfamiliar with. Yet it has been proved in the past that hate crimes and bullying can be reduced and/or prevented by educating people about the subject they are afraid of, such as courses available for those with severe arachnophobia. These courses teach people all about spiders and eventually encourage people to actually deal with them by picking them up, safely disposing of them etc. If a similar course could be invented to teach homophobics that there really was nothing to scared of, perhaps Section 28 would never have had to be introduced. This is why it is vital to include homosexuality in sex education at school.From 1939 to 1945 Adolf Hitler executed millions of Jews because they were “different” and he could not learn to tolerate them. Perhaps the existence of Clause 28 is showing us that we have not progressed at all in our thinking over the past 60 years. Hate is a horrible, destructive thing, whereas love is looked upon as something sacred and pure. Does it really matter who a person loves? I would have thought that it was far better for any two people to feel affection for each other than to encourage bigotry and hate crimes through ignorance and discrimination....
