In the con­tin­u­ing debate con­cern­ing the legal recog­ni­tion of same sex mar­riages, ver­bal abuse should be con­demned and fac­tu­al inac­cu­ra­cies cor­rect­ed.
One claim relat­ing to the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty is that the ultra-Ortho­dox Vish­nitz Girls School in north Lon­don in the UK lost its accred­i­ta­tion as a school because it would not cease teach­ing its ver­sion of sex­u­al­i­ty and mar­riage after same-sex mar­riages became legal in March 2014.
In point of fact the school found itself in dif­fi­cul­ties with Ofst­ed (the UK school reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ty) well before March 2014 because it was said to have failed var­i­ous oth­er legal stan­dards aris­ing under ear­li­er leg­is­la­tion. For exam­ple, the school was found to have failed to have poli­cies in place that would require it to report inci­dents of abuse and neglect.
Pro­vi­sions of the UK Equal­i­ty Act 2010, under which sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion became a pro­tect­ed char­ac­ter­is­tic, and which pre­dates the Mar­riage (Same Sex Cou­ples) Act 2013, explic­it­ly pro­vide that the school has the right to teach its own beliefs about sex­u­al­i­ty and mar­riage in a way that does not dis­re­spect LGBTQI peo­ple.

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