I live in N. Ireland, which has a MAJOR problem with sectarianism. As Im American, i grew up without this, no church in state, etc. So I have a really hard time understanding why they carry on with this segregation of children. Surely, children are not of any religion? Do you not need to be of the age of reckoning to be considered a religion? Also, all children(despite it not being legally mandatory) are urged to wear the school uniform, which means that outside of school they are still visibly one or the other.(protestant or catholic) Over the summer, a catholic schoolboy was battered to death by a gang of mostly grown protestant boys, for being catholic. Would this had happened if these boys had been educated alongside other catholics, and had been urged to build relationships with them? How many more children should die before the government here takes what i see as the most sensible action possible to move the peace process forward? Do you beleive that there is ANY benefit at all?
2006-09-20
04:15:06
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