‘Easier to reveal sexuality than faith,’ Education Committee told

The Evangelical Alliance is a Christian organisation which represents a range of churches and individuals.

Mr Smyth also said: “I do think we need to be careful not to create new secular blasphemies.”

“Is it secular blasphemy to believe that a man cannot biologically become a woman?” he continued.

Mr Smyth told the committee that while the Evangelical Alliance had some “concerns” around the content of RSE, it was not a case of “religion versus RSE”.

“We’re not looking to fight a culture war where children are the casualties,” Mr Smyth said.

“There’s so much common ground between Christians and non-Christians when it comes to the teaching of healthy relationships, consent, preventing violence against women and girls, sexualisation.”

But he said that parents had concerns about some of what they had read in the media about what was taught in RSE.