'That is homophobia': Piers Morgan hits out at 'GMB' guest who defends parents removing children from LGBTQ+ lessons

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan has hit out at a guest on the morning show for arguing that parents should be able to fight against LGBTQ+ lessons being taught in schools.

Journalist Dilly Hussain appeared on GMB today and said that parents should be able to take their children out of LGBTQ+ lessons if they go against their religious beliefs – and that shouldn’t be seen as homophobia.

This comes after The Outsider programme, which aims to promote LGBTQ+ and racial equality, has proved unfavourable with some parents in Birmingham, who have protested outside two primary schools.

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Hussain argued that parents were angry about their children being ‘sexualised’, and that they are being denied their rights to decide what their kids are taught in schools.

“I think it’s a symptomatic issue of a wider problem, which is the increasing sexualisation of children in wider society, and the encroachment by the state in the rights of parents,” he said.

“It’s not just an issue of same sex relations, it’s any type of sexual relations and gender identity that children are being exposed to.

“The reason why parents have resorted to petitions and protests in Birmingham has been a lack of consultation.”

However, Morgan argued that the reason Muslim parents were protesting was because they are against homosexuality.

“So mosques in this country don’t say that homosexuality is a sin? That is homophobia,” said Morgan.

Denying that the belief is inherently homophobic, Hussain replied: It’s a theological and religious standpoint. It’s not inciting violence or hatred.”

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He added: “Do we not live in a society that we ardently disagree about fundamental issues about man, life and the universe? Does that mean that we hate the people we disagree with? Of course not.”