re: #205 Old Liberal

So I guess no nuns need apply.

*ahem*

that is an issue in itself. Although Germany officially practices “separation of church and state”, it allows religious instruction in schools.

Currently it offers Lutheran and Catholic instruction. It is optional (students may take an Ethics class instead) and “separation of church and state” is “ensured” in that the school only provides the classrooms, the respective churches provide the instructors.

There has been some talk about Islamic instruction, but the problem there is that there is no “Islamic Church” with the same status as the Catholic Church or the Lutheran Diocese of Germany.

So nuns are allowed, and unlike Moslem schoolteachers, their headgear is not seen as indicative of supporting an ideology that is at odds with the Constitution (this being the reason that headscarves are banned)

Because the Catholic Church is a bastion of Democracy and equality for women…

There are many things I like about life in Germany, but their approach to religious instruction in schools is not one of them)