In the Scottish Parliament, the repeal process was more successful. The Equality Network led the campaign in favour of scrapping Section 28, while various groups campaigned against the repeal. The Scottish millionaire businessman Brian Souter privately funded a postal ballot as part of his Keep the Clause campaign, which he claimed returned 86\% support for keeping the clause, from a response from less than one third of the 3.9 million registered Scottish voters. The then Communities Minister, Wendy Alexander MSP, criticised the poll, stating "I think what is significant about today's ballot is that two out of three voters rejected, or binned or simply ignored this glorified opinion poll." Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP responded that the result showed that many Scots were concerned about repeal and said: "That is why the SNP have urged a policy for many months that we believe can provide people with the necessary reassurance, by providing a statutory underpinning to the guidelines, and resolve this difficult debate. We believe that the value of [heterosexual] marriage should be clearly referred to in the URL Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell stated that "Brian Souter's support for Section 28 is the moral equivalent of the business-funded campaign to maintain racial segregation in the Deep South of the USA in the 1950s." Tatchell said that Souter's campaign was "hateful" and that it is clear that he was using his vast fortune to try to keep a cruel and "bigoted law" intact. Despite Souter's efforts, Section 28Although, more accurately, it was Section 2A of the relevant Scottish legislation was repealed by MSPs as part of the Ethical Standards in Public Life Act on 21 June 2000 with a 99 to 17 majority vote with two abstentions. The 17 votes against were all Conservative MSPs. In 2000, one year prior to his election to the House of Commons, Conservative Party member David Cameron repeatedly attacked the Labour Government's plans to abolish Section 28, publicly criticising then-Prime Minister Tony Blair as being "anti-family" and accusing him of wanting the "promotion of homosexuality in schools". At the 2001 general election, Cameron was elected as the Member of Parliament for Witney; he continued to support Section 28, voting against its repeal in 2003. The Labour Government were determined to repeal Section 28, and Cameron voted in favour of a Conservative amendment that retained certain aspects of the clause, which gay rights campaigners described as "Section 28 by the back URL The Conservative amendment was unsuccessful, and Section 28 was repealed by the Labour Government without concession, with Cameron absent for the vote on its eventual repeal. In 2014, a Stonewall report on homophobic bullying in schools found that 37\% of primary school teachers and 29\% of secondary school teachers did not know if they were allowed to teach lessons on LGBT+ URL After the Women and Equalities Select Committee recommended updating the Gender Recognition Act 2004 away from a medicalised approach and towards one based off statutory declaration in 2016, the ensuring and ongoing debate raised fears among some trans people that a new Section 28 could be introduced, especially after equalities minister Liz Truss that government policy would be based in part on the principle "that the under 18s are protected from decisions that they could make, that are irreversible in the URL LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall stated that the government rhetoric "sounds similar to how young lesbian, gay and bi people were spoken about in the URL A 2018 study from Anglia Ruskin University found that only 20\% of LGBT+ teachers who had taught under Section 28 were openly LGBT+, whereas almost 90\% of those had been trained after the repeal of the law were. The study additionally found that 40\% of the teachers from the Section 28 era saw their LGBT+ identity as incompatible with their role as teachers, whereas only 13\% of the post-Section 28 era teachers URL
In the Scottish Parliament, the repeal process was more successful. The Equality Network led the campaign in favour of scrapping Section 28, while various groups campaigned against the repeal. The Scottish millionaire businessman Brian Souter privately funded a postal ballot as part of his Keep the Clause campaign, which he claimed returned 86\% support for keeping the clause, from a response from less than one third of the 3.9 million registered Scottish voters. The then Communities Minister, Wendy Alexander MSP, criticised the poll, stating "I think what is significant about today's ballot is that two out of three voters rejected, or binned or simply ignored this glorified opinion poll." Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP responded that the result showed that many Scots were concerned about repeal and said: "That is why the SNP have urged a policy for many months that we believe can provide people with the necessary reassurance, by providing a statutory underpinning to the guidelines, and resolve this difficult debate. We believe that the value of [heterosexual] marriage should be clearly referred to in the guidelines". Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell stated that "Brian Souter's support for Section 28 is the moral equivalent of the business-funded campaign to maintain racial segregation in the Deep South of the USA in the 1950s." Tatchell said that Souter's campaign was "hateful" and that it is clear that he was using his vast fortune to try to keep a cruel and "bigoted law" intact. Despite Souter's efforts, Section 28Although, more accurately, it was Section 2A of the relevant Scottish legislation was repealed by MSPs as part of the Ethical Standards in Public Life Act on 21 June 2000 with a 99 to 17 majority vote with two abstentions. The 17 votes against were all Conservative MSPs. In 2000, one year prior to his election to the House of Commons, Conservative Party member David Cameron repeatedly attacked the Labour Government's plans to abolish Section 28, publicly criticising then-Prime Minister Tony Blair as being "anti-family" and accusing him of wanting the "promotion of homosexuality in schools". At the 2001 general election, Cameron was elected as the Member of Parliament for Witney; he continued to support Section 28, voting against its repeal in 2003. The Labour Government were determined to repeal Section 28, and Cameron voted in favour of a Conservative amendment that retained certain aspects of the clause, which gay rights campaigners described as "Section 28 by the back door". The Conservative amendment was unsuccessful, and Section 28 was repealed by the Labour Government without concession, with Cameron absent for the vote on its eventual repeal. In 2014, a Stonewall report on homophobic bullying in schools found that 37\% of primary school teachers and 29\% of secondary school teachers did not know if they were allowed to teach lessons on LGBT+ issues. After the Women and Equalities Select Committee recommended updating the Gender Recognition Act 2004 away from a medicalised approach and towards one based off statutory declaration in 2016, the ensuring and ongoing debate raised fears among some trans people that a new Section 28 could be introduced, especially after equalities minister Liz Truss that government policy would be based in part on the principle "that the under 18s are protected from decisions that they could make, that are irreversible in the future." LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall stated that the government rhetoric "sounds similar to how young lesbian, gay and bi people were spoken about in the URL A 2018 study from Anglia Ruskin University found that only 20\% of LGBT+ teachers who had taught under Section 28 were openly LGBT+, whereas almost 90\% of those had been trained after the repeal of the law were. The study additionally found that 40\% of the teachers from the Section 28 era saw their LGBT+ identity as incompatible with their role as teachers, whereas only 13\% of the post-Section 28 era teachers did.
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