>> Deciding how to educate their children is part of their religion. herein lies my naivety i suppose. :) >> As to your point about Catholic schools... do you

>> Deciding how to educate their children is part of their religion. herein lies my naivety i suppose. :) >> As to your point about Catholic schools... do you think that a Catholic school ought to be a place where other religious teaching is tolerated? Do you think such a school ought to be required to teach Islam or Protestantism for example? Or, to take a popular topic at the moment, should a church be required to perform same-sex marriages? no, my point was simply that public and Catholic schools were my only options. and fortunately one of them was suitable for my beliefs (whatever they may have been). i didn't intend to suggest that forcing public schooling was the best, or even a good solution. but i'm wondering how we extract the logic from that argument without alienating anyone.