CNN’s Belief Blog featured a link to this feature article on England’s The Guardian website which is entitled Australia’s blurred separation between church and state.
The author is a US journalist who has an interest in exposing the infiltration of certain types of Christianity into places where she believes it shouldn’t be. Her book is about the presence of Child Evangelisation Fellowship Good News Clubs in a local US schools.
I’m a bit lost however, as to why such a warning is needed for a country (England) which actually has an established church, of which the country’s reigning monarch is the head.
Honestly, I don’t know why the government are paying for Chaplains to be in schools. As someone with a substantial degree of involvement in the local expression of the program I’m determined to see it running as successfully as possible.
The article doesn’t point out that the religious test element of the High Court case was not upheld and the remaining element, which the various states have an interest in, has to do with the Commonwealth directly funding activity under state control. It has nothing to do with religion anymore. If that aspect of the appeal is sustained many bodies will have their funding streams disrupted.
If you’re inclined to read the article, feel free to leave the comments alone. They’re as unhelpful and off track as most such threads prove to be.
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