Education Minister Chris Carter is supporting a new scholarship that bans applications from “straight” schoolchildren.
Labour MP Chris Carter is well known for supporting gay rights but legal experts say his latest foray – supporting a scholarship for gay or lesbian schoolchildren – is skirting discrimination.
Carter, also Minister of Education, is patron of the Gay Auckland Business Association (Gaba), which this week distributed flyers to secondary schools asking students to apply for a $2000 tertiary scholarship. The catch? Applicants must identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender – along with excelling in effort and achievement at their school. Carter’s name is at the top of the flyer, listed as a patron of Gaba.
Asked for comment, Act Party leader Rodney Hide says news of the scholarship is the last thing Prime Minister Helen Clark needs as Labour struggles in the pre-election opinion polls.
Thats just fucking wrong!!! we’re encouraging a country of Winstons liars
