Moral dilemma

Richard Lucas (Letters, 15 September) challenges my letter of 14 September in which I pointed out how difficult it is to have a level playing field for all religions to have equal rights to engage in proselytising in schools and he assumes the present arrangements are defensible because he thinks religion is the only source of morality.

However, I am willing to trust teachers to guide pupils through discussions of the moral dilemmas of contemporary life without requiring priests, ministers, imams, rabbis or gurus to instruct them in school in the doctrines of their respective religions.

Why do some religious people insist on reproducing in school the doctrines and divisions between religious denominations that have caused so much harm in the UK and around the world?

Why not confine proselytising to home and community and keep it out of schools?

Norman Bonney

Palmerston Place

Edinburgh