PR Willey's letter (Evening Press, September 6) about religious bigotry in and outside of schools indicated to me that the recent launch of a campaign against religious schools by the British Humanist Association has yet to reach York.
The government's new Education White Paper has opened the floodgates and it is now up to parents to realise, particularly in view of recent happenings in the North of Ireland, Bradford and Oldham, that segregation from an early age is a bad thing.
The campaign entitled 'Learning Together' has produced a book from the Humanist Philosophers' Group entitled 'Religious Schools: the case against', as well as various other documents that pull together the evidence against the increase the government proposes.
Further details can be obtained from the BHA, 47 Theobalds Road, London, W1X 8SP.
This is all at the time when in the 21st century an academic in Pakistan is under sentence of death for blasphemy. The human race still has a long way to go.
Mick Phythian,
Monkton Road, York.
Updated: 12:41 Saturday, September 08, 2001
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