Disgusting Example of Indoctrination

[Pat Mustard]

There may come a time in the future when it does become illegal, but only because society has moved on enough to realize how damaging it is. I agree it would never work to just announce it to be illegal. It has to be a learning process by everyone.

It was only recently that "marital rape" became a thing.

So... who gets to decide what religions are acceptable to be taught, or the ways in which they are to be taught, to children, if not... their parents? A government panel? Any such suggestion strikes me as beyond creepy, in an Orwellian sort of way.

You should look up the Irish education system some day, of the eight years children have at primary level, nearly two (half an hour every school day, and at least a month each before first communion and confirmation. Not to mention all the preparation for christmas and easter every year) are taken up with religious instruction, by the fact that a) all schools have to have a religious ethos, b) over 97% of primary schools have a religious patron (mostly the rcc bishop) who, despite not having put a penny into the construction nor maintenance nor salary costs, gets exclusive say on how that religious ethos is carried out, and c) department of education guidelines mandating the half hour a day religious instruction (not education where students get a general idea of all religions, but instruction where they are taught about why one religion is right and everything else is wrong). The situation is not quite as bad at secondary level, but you still get at least two hours a week religious instruction over five/six (depending on if you do transition year or repeat the leaving) years of your teens.

Having gone through the Irish education system, trust me, schools should be the last place religion is allowed into. If people are worried about moral formation, then a civics class is more than adequate and far more adequate than a religion class. If parents want their children brought up religious, let them teach the children about religion themselves outside school hours or petition their priest/imam/pastor/rabbi for some form of Sunday school when religious observances happen.