Izzy Montagu, 38, a devout Christian, sued her four-year-old son’s school for forcing her son to participate in an LGBT pride parade.
Montagu said she was informed by the headteacher of Heavers Farm Primary School in South Norwood, that her son could not withdraw from the event in June 2018.
The school initially sent letters to parents on 19 June inviting them to partake in a Pride march and ‘celebrate the differences that make them and their family special.’
Montague, however, informed the school “and asked for her son to be excused attendance on 29 June as they were concerned of him being involved of a public display of adherence to views which she did not accept.”
Montague’s request was turned down Susan Papas, head teacher, so the parent replied with a copious mail.
At the beginning of the eight-day case, the presiding Judge Christopher Lethem described Montague and her husband as ‘devout born-again Christians, and they bear a belief that sexual relations should be abstained from or take place within a life-long marriage between a man and a woman and any activity outside those confines is sinful.
‘They also say pride is considered to be the most serious of the deadly sins.’
Montague informed the court that she had expressed concerns to her son’s teacher about the types of books the students were studying.
Montague said: ‘There was one reference to a same-sex family book.’
The school representative, Ian Clarke, said the book is called the Family Book.
Montague is suing the school on the grounds of direct and indirect discrimination, victimization, and breach of statutory duty under the Education Act 1996 and the Human Rights Act 1998.
This is the first time that a court in UK will inquire about the legality of imposing LGBT ideology on primary schools.
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