Good to see that the UK government is still coming under political pressure to drop its demented encouragement of “faith schools”. <\/p>\n

The BBC<\/a> reported <\/p>\n

Ministers are being urged to stop faith schools in England selecting pupils and staff on the basis of their religion.
\nAccord, a new coalition of secular and religious figures, wants the government to stop state-funded schools engaging in what they say is “discrimination”. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Faith schools getting forced into not favouring people who hold their “faith”? <\/p>\n

Well, that would be a start. <\/p>\n

But, they are wrong on so many levels that, if they were buildings, they’d need the world’s biggest elevators. Demolish the lot of them.<\/p>\n

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