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IS IT MADNESS TO BAN THE CRUCIFIX IN SCHOOLS?

Monday May 14,2007

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SCHOOL chiefs are today under fire for banning pupils from wearing crosses in class while allowing the jewellery of other faiths.

Christian groups and politicians condemned the education bosses and accused them of “double standards”.

The officials have told headteachers to ban jewellery except in “exceptional circumstances” when schools need to be “sensitive” towards other faiths. The “exceptions” include lockets worn by Muslims and Hindu bracelets.

But even Muslim leaders have joined the condemnation, arguing that all religious groups, including Christians, should be treated the same.

The guidance, issued to headteachers in Croydon, south London, has echoes of the row last year over Nadia Ewedia, the British Airways employee who eventually won her long battle to wear a cross at work.

*But what do YOU think? Is it madness to ban the crucifix in schools? Should all religious jewellery be banned? Is it one rule for Christians and one for Muslims? Have YOUR say.

THE U.K "GOVERNMENT" DID NOT SIGN THE RELEVANT PART OF THE ECHR.

01.08.07, 8:04am

"Any prohibition of this kind will be an open violation of the European Convention of Human Rights and other international treaties, which forbids all kind of discrimination, including religious discrimination, towards any faith. wetzvonplanken "

WRONG. The British "Government" did not ratify or sign that part of the treaty.

European Convention of Human Rights

Protocol 12 - discrimination
Applies the current expansive and indefinite grounds of prohibited discrimination in Article 14 to the exercise of any legal right and to the actions (including the obligations) of public authorities.
Andorra, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the UNITED KINGDOM — have not signed the protocol.

• Posted by: von_Spreuth • Report Comment

TAKE A STEP BACK.

22.06.07, 9:38am

I think it"s about time people took a step back and looked at what"s really happening with PC. If your talking equality- make it equal.
not personal.

• Posted by: andyb • Report Comment

CRUCIFIX IN SCHOOLS

04.06.07, 11:02pm

This is our schools we are a cristian sociaty in maine and allwas have been,
If our way of life afends outsiders it is quit simple do not come here, baleve me you will not be missed,
As the waring of black head gear afends me i will not be gowing to the counters that demand them, so stay away from us or you will have to face your dis liks but do not tray and stop the british way of life we have enjoyed and fort for in maney wars at the cost of Millians of our cristian man. we will not put up with this raping of our ways and tradishans

• Posted by: bob1955 • Report Comment

TIME TO SHOUT BACK

03.06.07, 10:36pm

I wear my cross with pride and will not remove it for no one I for one am sick totally sick of being hounded in my country I wonder are we going to be told we may not bathe in bikinis or costumes or will it be our attire thou shalt not wear low tops

• Posted by: tasha20 • Report Comment

BRING ON THE REVOLUTION.

03.06.07, 9:30am

Yes ban it I say,eventually,all these slights against the native Brits will combine to make a massive backlash.
For the strong and inventive race that we are ,we have become complacent and submissive.We moan and grumble ,but seem unable to stiffen our backbone and refuse to comply and so this government push and push to see how far they can go before we rise up.
It's time to revolt.

• Posted by: rozipoz • Report Comment