Sir Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films, is again using his fame to promote homosexuality - this time to children in schools. McKellen is a founding member of and long-time campaigner for Stonewall, one of the world’s most successful homosexualist lobby groups. His new task with the group involves tours of British schools to speak to them about “tolerance” of homosexuality.
Some, however, see the gay lobby’s campaign to bring the homosexualist message to schools in the guise of addressing bullying as a straightforward attack on those who would defend true marriage and family.
Fr. Timothy Finigan, founder of the Association of Priests for the Gospel of Life, told LifeSiteNews.com that Stonewall’s efforts in schools are part of a larger government agenda. “Nobody wants to see kids calling each other nasty names or bullying people in any way. But what the government is trying to do in their policies on homophobia is to address schools’ ‘heteronormative’ or ‘heterosexist’ culture.”
In the original Lord of the Rings books, the fatherly and honourable character of Gandalf was described by J.R.R. Tolkien as an “incarnate” angelic being sent by God to help defeat evil on earth. As a devout traditional Catholic, experts on Tolkien agree that he would have been horrified to see his creation being used to promote the homosexual disorder as normal to children.
McKellen describes himself as an atheist who says that he regrets not having the time to campaign against religious belief in addition to his homosexualist advocacy. In June this year, he was a featured speaker at an event sponsored by the National Secular Society celebrating the abolition of Britain’s blasphemy laws. At the dinner, he read the poem “The love that dares to speak its name” by James Kirkup that was banned in 1976 under the blasphemy laws because it describes homosexual acts committed on the body of the dead Christ.
Under the Labour government, the age of consent for homosexual acts was reduced from 18 to 16; Section 28 of the Local Government Act - that prevented local authorities spending public money on the promotion of homosexuality in schools - was abolished; joint adoption of children by homosexuals was legalised; and the Sexual Orientation Regulations were implemented that have forced the closure or secularisation of many of Britain’s Catholic adoption agencies.
Source: lifesitenews.com