The scrapping of a legal provision allowing religious schools to refuse to employ homosexual teachers should be part of discussions on forming a new government, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.

At the moment religious schools are allowed to refuse gay teachers and pupils on the grounds that homosexuality conflicts with their religious principles.
The outgoing cabinet had proposed making changes to the legislation but would not have fundamentally altered the current situation.
‘The law has to be changed so no school can refuse a pupil or teacher on grounds of their sexuality,’ the paper quoted Labour candidate Ronald Plasterk as saying.
The Netherlands has dozens of fundamentalist Christian schools which oppose homosexuality on Biblical principles. While funded by the government, they are run independently. Such schools may not discriminate but are free under European rules to determine their own ‘professional demands’ for teachers.