I know what some of you are thinking. You see this as a UK-only problem. Well, all I can say is that the strategies that are being utilized over here will surely be utilized in the USA also. In fact, perhaps they already are. Equality legislation sounds innocuous enough, but it seems that, at least according to one article I found online, perhaps it is already beginning to be used in some cases against US education establishments.
The concern is that the secular elite will increasingly demand Christians deny their faith in the Bible if they want to keep running schools.
So is it really implausible that Christian education is next? The ultimatum for schools will be inescapable: comply or close.
Well “so what?” some would say. Just comply. What’s the problem with non-discrimination?
Nothing, if you frame the issue in that one-sided manner. But what if it were framed this way: What’s the problem with coercing a Christian school to teach that the Bible is wrong? Or hateful? Or discriminatory?
Set aside for a moment that Washington is not supposed to be Tehran. Could you really build an educational system on a Book like that?
Of course not. It wouldn’t be credible and eventually people would abandon it. If you want evidence, just look at the empty pews in our dying mainline churches. The exodus correlates well with their de-legitimizing of scripture.
Source: The End of Christian Education
It is all too easy to imagine a time when every Christian University, College, School, and even Kindergarten on both sides of the Atlantic will be forced to be shut down.
I even discovered there have been some plans afoot in the UK to target religious supplementary schools, presumably including Sunday Schools for further regulation. A set of guidelines were due to be published, and although these have been cancelled, Ofsted chillingly said, “there is more to be done within the existing regulatory framework.” (source: BBC News)
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