British State School Bans Atheists

[Donnie]

This is an old article from March 28th 2005 but non the less it is important and shocking.

A publicly funded school in Britain is openly refusing to admit the children of atheists or humanists. Other schools are suspected of doing the same, but this is the first school to acknowledge the bigoted policy.

Read the rest of the article here (http://atheism.about.com/b/a/156863.htm)

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

And yet fundie groups like Christian Voice (http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/) have the gall to proclaim that they're being persecuted :rolleyes:

And to think I thought Britain was above this sort of bullshit.

[Severian]

From the article:

Prime Minister Tony Blair has been reported as saying that he doesn't want to see faith-based style politics to play a role in Britain the way it does in America, but in some ways Britain is already ahead of America. This is the sort of discrimination that Bush would like to see the American government funding.

Absolutely right.

Even if these religious schools admitted atheist students, it would still be outrageous to give them government funds! Considering one of the purposes of any religious school is religious indoctrination.