Law rethink plea

Published on 07/09/2012 00:00

We currently have our 
government asking Westminster to tinker with equality legislation in order to ensure religionists will be able to 
discriminate within their own organisations.

How about, at the same time, we ask Westminster to repeal the law that forces every one 
of Scotland’s 32 education 
committees to have three 
unelected clerics sitting on them (four in the case of the Western Isles and Shetland).

The news that Edinburgh City Council will allow just one 
parent to sit on its committee is derisory.

Gary Otton

Secular Scotland

Broughton Street

Edinburgh