Schools told to give pupils gay sex advice
KATE FOSTER CHIEF REPORTER

OFFICIAL guidance on how to teach Scottish schoolchildren about gay sex is being issued for the first time since the abolition of laws which banned "promoting" homosexuality in schools.

Teachers will be told they can discuss issues including safe gay sex and where to get advice on homosexual relationships, in a move which has already set religious groups and health professionals at loggerheads.

Senior health officials have told Scotland on Sunday the current sex education guidelines need to be expanded because they are "heterosexist".

But the move has been condemned by the Catholic Church in Scotland as "appalling, outrageous and utterly unnecessary". the rest