Faith schools are a cancer eating at the hearts and minds of young people. They teach division, hatred of unbelievers, uncrically accept dogma and superstition and add to the rifts, extremism, violence and lack of cohesion in our towns ad cities. I will always join my neighbours in bitterly opposing any attempt to set up do-called 'Faith' schools locally and would support any political party which includes that in its manifesto. - David Bennington, Ruislip, UK
I'm sure the Law Commission will give considerable weight to the views of the C of E. However, what amuses me about the response is it's reference in paragraph 14 to addressing "situations that fall short of biblical ideals". Exactly what 'biblical ideals' are they referring to? Perhaps the ideal that homosexuality is a sin, or maybe even the ideal that a man should stone his wife to death if he discovers she is not a virgin? Of course, I'm certain that any member of the Church of England will say they do not agree with stoning wives (although no doubt many will still say homosexuality is a sin), but this is because of their own morality, not the teaching of the Bible. Why should the laws of this country be so influenced by the 'moral guidance' of religion? - A question of morals
What is Dep Mayor Ronnie Crawford on about? Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church rejects creationism and endorses evolution (albeit guided by God). Biblical (6000 year) creationism is proved to be utterly wrong by scientific disciplines that have nothing to do with biology or evolution: physics, geology, geography, astronomy. It is odd that Mr Givan seems prepared to have his religious views exposed as ridiculous in a scientific forum. Would the DUP councillors also have alchemy taught alongside chemistry, astrology alongside cosmology? (Actually they might given their obvious scientific ignorance). - DUP CALL FOR SCHOOLS TO TEACH CREATION PASSED BY COUNCIL
The Catholic Church is to be given £30 million in the London Borough of Wandsworth to open a "faith school". The school in Battersea, planned to open in 2012, will merge two already failing Catholic Schools John Paul II School in Southfields and Salesian College in Battersea. So much for the "religious ethos" guaranteeing success. - NSS
"We want these little children to go to heaven. If they come to doubt all these answers as myth, they will go to hell as unbelievers. Whoever is responsible—parent, preacher, schoolteacher, theologian, or synod—it were better for them that a millstone were hanged about their neck and that they were drowned in the depth of the sea."
From some nutter over at: Genesis 1-11: Myth or History?
But is it not safer to adhere to a right principle, and trust to its consequences, than confide in the reasoning however specious in favor of a wrong one. - James Madison