Christian mother under fire for saying being gay is a ‘choice’ on live TV

This Christian mother is under fire for her comments | Photo: Good Morning Britain

A Christian mother is the latest person to attack LGBTI lessons in schools in the UK.

Mother Izzy Montague, who appeared on Good Morning Britain, was slammed for saying being gay is a ‘choice’.

Appearing alongside her was Tom Cox, a dad-of one who is gay.

Cox said: ‘You’re born with your sexual preference, you are gay or you’re not.’

Montague responded, saying: ‘I don’t agree that you’re born anything.

‘Of course I believe it’s a choice. I made a choice of what I believe is right or wrong, I don’t remember ever thinking to myself “am I gay or am I straight?”

‘It’s something I have done based on my belief. So even if I was gay, I do believe based on my belief that I feel that a heterosexual relationship is a right course of action for me.

‘No one has forced you to be in a gay relationship. This is a decision that you have made.’

Mother’s comments face backlash on social media

Her odd comments was met with backlash on social media.

Izzy: BEinG gAy Is A cHoICe

Tom: When did you come out as straight?

Izzy: I didn’t.

Tom: Exactly.#GMB pic.twitter.com/39rnANcq6n

— British LGBT Awards (@BritLGBTAwards) March 21, 2019

Montague added she feels she ‘should be the one to teach my child anything to do with relationships’.

She also said: ‘‘I think personally children are not there for you to brainwash into what good relationships are just because it’s real life.’

Cox argued back: ‘Do you not think that we live in such a diverse nation in our towns and in our villages that the school is gonna be able to give a greater representation of that potentially more than you could?’

Some have also criticized Good Morning Britain for choosing to air the debate at all.

One said on Twitter: ‘You know what else is a choice? TV producers platforming homophobes to drag political debate back to the 1980s.

‘No one has forced you to broadcast cranks and bigots.’

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