There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Polly Toynbee
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- People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
- But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
- But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
- But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
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