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The leader of the Liberal Democrat Party Nick Clegg has called on faith schools to target and stamp out homophobic bullying.

Speaking in an interview with Attitude magazine, Clegg said that the Lib Dems would make it a requirement for UK faith schools to educate about homosexuality and to teach pupils that it is normal.

Clegg spoke out on a number of gay issues in the interview, including the terminology surrounding civil partnerships, insisting that gay and lesbian couples should be able to refer to themselves as married.

“If we don’t want to discriminate, why do we make differences in language?” He said. “Language is a hugely important signifier of how we segment society and how you seek to create differences between people. Since we don’t want to make differences on this and the law has moved a great deal to do that, we should be linguistically the same too.”

Clegg also criticised Conservative leader David Cameron’s position on gay issues, identifying his change of heart over the controversial Section 28 legislation.

He said: “I don’t really know what he believes in. I don’t know what his convictions are and the reason is because they keep changing – and they seem to change for convenience.”

Additionally, Clegg vowed to give asylum seekers fleeing because of their sexuality, refuge in the UK.

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