With the deadline looming for the receipt of responses to the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, campaigners on both sides of the debate continue to make their arguments. No campaigner Karina Okotel argued that legislating to approve same-sex marriage would have consequences for sex education in schools. She said that a Jewish school in England faced closure because three inspections had found that despite same-sex marriage being legal, the students were not being provided a full understanding of fundamental British values because the school did not teach about homosexuality and gender diversity. Ms Okotel's claim that the introduction of same-sex marriage in the UK had consequences for the education that children receive is baseless. Experts say the British Government's efforts to standardise relationships and sex education throughout English schools by 2019 is not a result of, and is unrelated to, the legalisation of same-sex marriage in England in 2013. The Jewish school referred to by Ms Okotel failed inspections by Ofsted, the regulatory body, because of alleged breaches of the UK's anti-discrimination law, the Equality Act 2010, which came into force years before same-sex marriage became legal. The UK authority says the inspection result has "nothing to do" with same-sex marriage.
Verdict: Baseless