A British lawyer recommends that the Chisinau authorities should not include the wording “sexual orientation” in the draft law on preventing and countering discrimination. If this advice is ignored, he says, the population of Moldova will suffer from severe consequences which will affect the education of the young generation, Info-Prim Neo reports. Alex Spak, member of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship of Great Britain told a press conference on Tuesday that Moldova is at the risk of following the scenario of Britain, which adopted a similar legal provision, the marriage being given the same value as the partnership between to persons of the same sex, called civil partnership. “Once the law is adopted in the current drafting, the authorities will be obliged to promote this equality in the educational institutions. The sexuality of the children aged between 9 and 12 can be influenced through education. If these children will be told that homosexuality is normal and safe they would face a confusion for their entire life”, the lawyer asserted. Alex Spak says that such a law would allow lesbians to have children through in vitro fertilisation, “a fact which in the end would turn down the possibility that the baby should have a father”. “The clinic which will operate the insemination will not be obliged to identify the father. The latter will be replaced by a donor. The child to be born will not have the right to ever know his biologic father. And this will happen in a society which is so desperate about “fathers”, the lawyer concluded. Spak adds that, after the law is adopted, another dangerous trend could appear - the elimination of the age of sexual consent – the age at which the child can have sexual relations. “This fact will be easily justified: there is no problem in adults having sexual relations with children since this fact is safe”, the British lawyer said. Earlier, the representatives of several nongovernmental and religious organisations protested against the draft law on preventing and countering discrimination. They say that the adoption of the law would demoralise the society. The law is part of the project “Promotion of non-discriminatory policies in the Republic of Moldova”, having a budget of 62,000 euroa funded by the Sweden-based Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and the Budapest-based Open Society Institute. Earlier, the members of the Coalition for Defending Family and Morality from Moldova stated that the introduction of the notion of “sexual orientation” in the draft law , grants the entire package of rights to the sexual minorities, endangering thus the institution of family. The state will grant the sexual minorities the access to educational institutions, thus providing them with the possibility to be closer to children and influence, manipulate or even recruit them for involving in sexual relations. Alex Spak is visiting Moldova at the initiative of the Coalition for Defending Family and Morality.