Taxpayer Funded Religious Indoctrination

This is a disgrace.

THE Victorian Education Department is forcing public primary schools to run Christian education classes taught by volunteers, angering parents and schools that do not want to host them. 

An email exchange, obtained by the Sunday Age, reveals the department told one parent that his school ''must'' keep its Christian religious instructor whether it wanted to or not. 

A number of Melbourne primary schools have questioned whether students should be taught about Christianity. But the department and Christian religious education provider Access Ministries says they have no choice.

That's right. I, as a taxpayer, am forced to fund the teaching of bronze-age superstition to public school students. Believe whatever you want, teach your kids whatever you want at home, but don't you fcking dare force this into public schools at the expense of a lesson about maths, English or science.

This makes my blood boil. If I lived in society that actually valued individual rights and had a Constitution predicated on their protection (like the US, this would be thrown out on the grounds of it being a clear violation of the separation between church and state in about 10 seconds. Alas, I live in Australian, with no Bill of Rights and a Constitution about as strong as a Kennedy's willpower at an open bar.

Here is a link to the Humanist Society website that has been setup to fight this insanity.