"Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project." Hmm.

"Heads of the project have set themselves a goal of 'creating primary classrooms where queer sexualities are affirmed and celebrated'." Hmm.

As I have come to expect with Daily Mail online articles, the comment responses consist primarily of complaints that the government is seemingly wasting taxpayer money on fringe community benefits whilst in the middle of an economic crisis.

The economy is going to hell in a handbasket. Tax payers are feeling the bite in their pocket and yet having to subsidise our financial services industry because of banking practices that push beyond the boundaries of boldness and yet our government can find a spare £600,000 to advocate teaching five year olds about homosexuality? Five year olds! These children aren't even of the age to read Biff, Chip and Kipper and yet the government finds a spare £600k, in what Alistair Darling calls the worst economic climate for 60 years, to learn whether their sexual attitudes require exploring? Unbelievable.

Predictably, one poster spontaneously decides that it's time to move to Australia. Well to that poster I say, "please don't". The more Britons emigrate down there, the less room there will be for me when I get around to it.

But let's take a moment to look at the real issue behind this story.

It seems as if these researchers are suggesting mixing up the traditional curriculum by teaching varying forms of companionship, perhaps by updating the traditional "Jane and George" anecdotes. Clearly this study was intended to curb sexuality-related playground violence, by trying to demonstrate to kids from a young age that that homosexuality is normal and acceptable.

But I think doing that before there's any semblance of proven consensus on that assertion goes against the fundamentals of our democracy. You can't just teach five year olds that a given value is definitely "acceptable" (whether we think it is, or not) based on what the current administration wants us to think. That is unacceptable.

There are people out there who would vote against such a change in curriculum. You can call them homophobes, or whatever. Obviously those people have their opinion and here's the thing about opinion: it's no more or less valid than yours or mine.

But in bringing in such changes without taking a look at the prevailing view of society (in an inclusive fashion), these persons' opinions are being overlooked. It offends and upsets me that some people's opinions are totally ignored just because the rest of us find their opinions to be "wrong".

Anyway, I'm overreacting because, let's face it, the Government never consults its citizens on anything anyway. The Daily Mail is sensationalising stories more and more these days.