Ugandans have been outraged to discover where gay-friendly sex education materials used with thousands of their children have come from – inside their own education ministry.

An organization based in the ministry in Uganda has got away with sending the sensible and fair advice for over a decade – until someone realized.

Now the advice has been withdrawn and the government is investigating about 100 secondary schools who have been using it.

The teaching tool, called The World Starts With Me, tells students: ‘People can feel attracted to the same sex or both sexes. If this lasts a long time they might be homosexual.

‘People are homosexual not by choice but by birth. The famous tennis star Martina Navratilova and the singer Elton John are homosexual.’

School Net, housed in the Ministry of Education in Kampala, has apparently been circulating the comprehensive sex education curriculum since 2004.

The organization which created it, Rutgers, based in the Netherlands, proudly boasts it has been used in Uganda’s ‘secondary schools (junior and high, including religious schools)’ although it is banned in the country’s primary schools.

Then Ugandan publication Saturday Monitor investigated, claiming the schools had been ‘tricked’ into using it by School Net.

The storm has been whipped up by the leader of the Family Life Network in Uganda, Stephen Langa.

Speaking to WBS TV Uganda, he said: ‘A petrol bomb, which will kill people, is an explosion which is uncontrolled. In the same way, when you teach sexuality in an uncontrolled way, where there is no morality, then it is dangerous. It can turn out to be a weapon of mass destruction.

‘It is a gay indoctrinating sex education curriculum.’

Edwin Sesange, director of the African LGBTI organization Out and Proud Diamond Group and himself a Ugandan, said Langa’s words are a ‘typical example of blame the gays’.

Sesange told GSN: ‘Mr Langa’s language is misleading and incites hatred, discrimination, violence and stigma towards LGBTI people in Uganda. He completely ignores the benefits of comprehensive sex education.’