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Melanie Phillips: Mr. Balls?s secular Inquisition

By Alliance Alert

Melanie Phillips writing in the Spectator: "Indeed, the real significance of this appalling piece of legislation [the Children Schools and Families Bill] goes far beyond this particular row over this amendment, and far beyond the particular difficulties to be faced by faith schools and the ludicrous hoops through which they are now expected to jump. For it means that in all schools, parents will now find that their children are to be indoctrinated in a set of ?non-judgmental ?assumptions about sexual activity that many may find questionable or objectionable ? but by law these assumptions may not deviate from the doctrines laid down by the Inquisitors at the Department for Children Schools and Families."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).