TTT
The point is, the legislation was deliberately vague.
As you have pointed out, the legislation states:
"shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship"
But no-one can be sure of what 'promotion' means, so it would be left to all public workers, teachers, college administrators etc to decide what they could and could not talk about.
The effect was this: as a public sector worker you could not in any way state that being gay was fine.
Swap it around for a moment and you can see how pernicious this was. Imagine if Section 28 actually forced all teachers to promote homosexuality as 'fine', and to teach about gay relationships in sex ed classes.
I know all the 'righty' people have certain views on this, as they have already posted on threads where this has been discussed.
Is the same not true the other way around?