marriage, chastity, whether life begins at conception, whether moral values in general - including in areas such as the importance of trustworthiness - are objective or should be determined by utilitarian criteria, if you are a quaker, issues to do with peace etc). I have written about the fairtrade movement going into schools and saying things which are objectively false (though, as a matter of principle, I think the movement is a very good idea - I just don't agree with how it goes about things). Some of the things my children are taught in schools are objectively false (in that they are told that things are definitely true that are a matter of legitimate dispute). The point here is who decides what is taught? I think that competition between schools is beneficial in terms of raising standards, but it is also important in a pluralist society. The BHA is concerned that things with which it disagrees are taught in schools (and this extends, I might add, to all matters to do with religion). In this particular case, the BHA is going even further and is complaining about people who might believe things with which they disagree governing a school even if they do not teach the things with which the BHA disagree! We need to be clear here. The major religions in this country believe in pluralism in education. Their first principle is the primacy of parents. They would believe that the BHA should be able to set up