Choose carefully words on Safe Schools: PM

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged government backbenchers opposed to a gay and lesbian-focused schools program to choose their words carefully.

Mr Turnbull was asked about the comments of Nationals MP George Christensen who has likened the Safe Schools program to child sexual grooming.

"I encourage everybody who is discussing these issues to do so in very measured language - and to

consider very carefully the impact of the words they use on young people and on their families," he told reporters in Canberra on Friday.