18 September 2007

Saying no to religious schools

There are all sorts of problems with the British reliance on religious organisations (i.e. churches) to provide public education but we need to take steps that these providers cannot use public moneys to suppress the rights to free speech and free expression as Northern Ireland's Catholic schools look set to ban Amnesty International support organisations over Amnesty's reluctant change of its stance on abortion.

If these schools which to impose this thinking that is fine with their own money in their own institutions even though I respectfully disagree. But these schools are public schools; they do not belong to the church they belong to the state and British people; they are funded entirely by the taxpayer.

No, no, a thousand times no!

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