Under the laws of this country it is illegal to discriminate against someone applying for a job, or for housing, and for many other things provided by the state and the private sector, on the grounds of race, religion or creed. In that instance, society has decided that religious discrimination can be equated to racial discrimination. Consistency would suggest that the same rules should apply to schools - certainly in the state sector. You may disagree - that is the advantage of living in a free society. I find many aspects of organised religion objectionable and unpleasant, but respect people's right to believe in them and express themselves accordingly, provided that their doing so does not impact on the lives of others who hold different views. There is only so much state funding available for schooling, and when some of it is used for schools that consciously exclude children on religious grounds, and so may reduce their chance of receiving a good education, then there is an impact. Therefore I disagree with the policy. I am sorry that you seem to have problems with that.
The secondary school I attended was over-subscribed and could quite easily have applied a CofE only policy. Fortunately it preferred to offer places to the best academically-qualified pupils, in the expectation that they would accept the broad ethos of the school, and ignored their religious affiliations. I believe that that policy would be more appropriate as a means of selecting pupils for state-funded schools than one based on membership of a particular religious sect, be it Anglican, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or indeed Jedi Knight. You seem to find that objectionable - please feel free to justify your opinion, that is what having a debate is all about. Name-calling simply belittles the name-caller !
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