re: #22 freetoken

Sounds pretty sinister.

But… once again it seems like your author, Andrew Gilligan, doesn’t actually give us the material he claims. Where is this 72 page document?

One thing that’s buried in the article and will probably not be visible to the US audience is that this is a ‘faith’ school. It’s a school that’s public-supported but allowed to have religious overtones; the CoE have a lot of them in the UK, the Catholics have some, and I guess Muslims do now too. They have lower separation of Church and State because they have an actual state church, and state-support other churches as well.

Faith-based schools, here or there, are a bad idea, I think. However, by keeping them sponsored by the state, the state gets to actually inspect them and, when they’re getting fundie, crack down on them. That may be what’s happening here.

Meanwhile, here in the US we have a ton of public schools actively teaching creationism, and we seem a bit of a loss as what to do about it. Officially, we have separation of church and state, but the reality is that in many communities Christian supremacism is the norm, and students are taught the religious view of all kinds of stuff. It’s a major problem. It’s getting worse, with all the voucher bullshit the GOP has put through, there’s tons of openly insanely Christian state-funded schools here in the US.