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Let Church do its teaching in Sunday school

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Church schools have an important role to play in the social education of children on matters of morality, ethics and behaviour, but this must be confined to church premises on a Sunday or other time after regular school hours. In other words, Sunday school.

I've been waiting 40 years for someone to have the guts to grasp the nettle and abolish all church-run day schools in Northern Ireland.

My hard-earned tax-pounds should not be used to subsidise the brainwashing of vulnerable young minds at schools run by any religion - Protestant, Catholic, Moslem, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist or Shinto.

Peter Robinson is correct in condemning our traditional structure and identifying it as apartheid. The only real hope for an integrated community in Ulster is the immediate separation of church and state in matters of education.

The kids are all right. They will get along fine and overcome the old divisions - if you will only let them.

Some churches have long-since lost the moral authority to teach anything about living in a civilised society. Don't let them near your children unless you are present.

AGRICOLA

Portadown, Co Armagh