RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
Sir, —A new note has been struck; and congratulations are duo to Mr. J. L. Scoullar for bringing it in. He asks for co-operation "to convince the Minister that a basis acceptable to nil can be found for religious exercises in (public) schools." Evidently Mr. Scoullar prefers integrational thought to emotional. He is right, of course. The Minister is bound, in justice, to protect and respect the rights of every church and religious sect by inhibiting any religious exercise on the part of Statepaid teachers in State schools, until one "can be found acceptable to all." That co-operative formula must precede any action on tho part of the Minister to legalise ft Protestant, or a Catholic, or a Jewish, or any other religious cult in schools which are provided by all. Attendance at school i« compulsory; and all—including Rationalists, Communists and other atheists — therefore must be protected. A forced religious ascendancy is the most intolerable of all unjust legislation; and it always defeats its own aim, which is order. Hugh. McHaigh.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 17
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