Madam, - Anthony Sheridan (November 13th) seems to say that schools funded by the State should be entirely secular and that non-secular schools should not be funded by the State at all.
Is secularism the only true philosophy deserving of State support? Does the State - ie, the people of the country who pay the taxes - have no voice at all? In this State the majority of people support religious education and "indoctrination". - Yours, etc,
Madam, - Is Anthony Sheridan such "an aggressive secularist" that he is blind to logic? Why does he not also claim that the secularist philosophy of education should be strictly confined to schools entirely funded by secularists? Does he not think also that "State schools, funded by all taxpayers", should be free of all secularist indoctrination?
Despite his hostility to secularist taxpayers contributing towards the education of Catholics, my guess is that a very large proportion of secularists in this country (including himself, perhaps) received an education funded very largely by Catholic taxpayers. - Yours, etc,