Greens want to axe Catholic schools.

THE Greens have called for the abolition of Catholic schools in Scotland.

The party, who hope to win at least 10 seats at Holyrood, have included moves for Catholic schools to be integrated into a secular state system in their manifesto.

Green leader Robin Harper claimed that having separate schools "tends to divide communities".

He said: "Catholic children, for most of their time in primary and secondary, do not mix with other children.

"And children who are non-Catholics do not, because the Catholics are educated separately, tend to mix so much with them.

A spokesman for the Catholic Church said: "It is unfortunate that the Greens want to trample on the rights of Catholic parents and the thousands of other parents who aren't Catholics but choose a Catholic education for their kids.
"This is an outrageous proposal."

Mr Harper is of course entitled to his views as are his party. However, I am always intrigued when people of this nature choose to be selective regarding who they criticise. Why single out Catholic schools? Why not call for the abolition of certain other religious schools? After all, to my knowledge there is only one faith that is in the process of opening more faith schools. Where are the Greens calls for their abolition?

Apart from attacking an established church in Britain, what else does the Green party have in mind?

Apart from the scrapping of improvements to transport infrastructure in Scotland in the name of "global warming", the Greens oppose the way young people have been "demonised" using anti-social behaviour powers and are robustly on the side of civil liberties and asylum seekers.

Shiona Baird, the Greens' co-convener, said: "If you have voted Green in the past, there could be no more important time to do so again. If you are voting for the first time, or considering voting Green for the first time, I urge you to back our vision for a socially just and internationally responsible Scotland."

"Socially just"; provided you fit in with their vision and are not from the wrong religious group is that?