AN HIV/AIDS COUNSELLOR and father of four says the Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) programme being taught in secondary schools is turning Barbadian children into homosexuals.
But George Griffith, who once fronted the Child Care Board and the Barbados Family Planning Association (BFPA), declared the programme merely prepared students for what they would encounter in the real world, and that homosexuality was around for much longer than any programme in local schools.
The debate was stirred up yesterday as Ambrose Carter, the HIV/AIDS counsellor, lashed out at Griffith and accused him of being the man behind the thrust to have Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) established in schools.
Carter, founder of the Pure Sex Centre, was speaking on The Truth About Comprehensive Sexual Education at Bethel Pentecostal Church in Drax Hall, St George. (HLE)
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