'A high court judge has permanently banned activists against LGBT equality lessons from demonstrating outside a Birmingham primary school.
Protesters went head to head with a local authority during the five-day hearing. Anderton Park school, in the Sparkhill area of the city, has become the focus of a long campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught in the classroom.
Most of the protesters have been of Muslim faith and some have stood regularly outside the school chanting “Let kids be kids” and carrying placards with the message: “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”
Birmingham city council launched court action to prevent more protests outside the school after about 300 people gathered at the gates in May. The demonstration included a speech by an imam who claimed anal sex, paedophilia and transgenderism were being taught in schools.
Following the five-day hearing in October, the high court judge Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgment until a later date. On Tuesday, he announced the verdict, saying an exclusion zone would remain in place permanently banning protesters from gathering outside the school.
Warby said protesters had grossly misrepresented what was being taught at the school and had adversely affected children, teachers and local residents.
An emergency interim order was granted, and later extended in June, which sought to halt any further gatherings near the primary school that could disrupt pupils or intimidate staff.'
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