Supporter comments

All children should receive a proper, unbiased, education about all the main religious views, including the now majority UK 'no religion' view, covering secularism, humanism, and atheism.

Our schools should not be permitted to teach about religion from their exclusive viewpoint. The law should be changed to prevent this.

I think RE should be taught as an objective description of a diverse range of people’s belief systems, with an emphasis on the critical assessment of facts. It should also be taught consistently at every school and the only way to do this is by making it part of the National Curriculum.

In this divisive era, I think it's vitally important that a broad range of major world views are considered, compared, and contrasted.

A non-proselytising approach to religion equips pupils with an age-appropriate understanding of the diversity of beliefs they will encounter in the world, from online to offline. It equips young people to understand their and others' rights and responsibilities, and to avoid the state-sanctioned imposition of religion or ideology upon individuals without their consent.

Every young person has a right to full education about all beliefs, religious and non-religious. Everyone is entitled to freedom of conscience. It is not ok to coerce and manipulate into acceptance of a parent's belief or non-belief system.

Given the long-standing existence of religious diversity in England, it makes sense to adopt a neutral stance when explaining religion in its historical and social contexts.

Teach the history and social impact of religions and promote tolerance and good feeling to all peoples, but an educational establishment promoting a specific religious belief is backward thinking and has no place in a 21st century world.