A slim majority of the country’s Christian school heads say the government is within its rights to force them to employ homosexual teachers, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday.

The claim is based on the results of a poll carried out by the Christian school association.
At the moment many Christian schools accept gay teachers as long as they are not practising, a loophole possible under freedom of education laws.
The Netherlands has dozens of fundamentalist Christian schools which oppose homosexuality on Biblical principles. While funded by the government, they are run independently.
Last year, a strict Protestant primary school in Gelderland suspended a teacher because he was gay and lived with another man. That case is being taken to the equal opportunities commission.