@neil Common. And wrong.

@bloor @neil is this not fairly obvious discrimination on religious grounds?

I'm quite happy for private faith schools to be discriminatory if they want to be (well, I'm not, but if it's their money I don't really have a say) but the taxpayer shouldn't be funding discrimination.

@ahnlak @neil

I am very interested to know why it isn't illegal in the same way as my launching "Bloor's Christian Only Restaurant" would be illegal?

Or am I wrong? Can I set up a "Christians Only" burger joint?

I'm pretty positive if I did I'd get my collar felt, and rightly so.

What is it about schools that means they don't follow the (reasonable) rules everyone else does?

@bloor @ahnlak @neil Schools have a very limited exemption - you can only impose a faith requirement if the school is oversubscribed (and even then it's complicated based on the type of school).

Faith-based schools can also use faith in their criteria for selecting staff.

And of course if you're a religious organisation, you can do all sorts of horrible things like refuse to marry LGBT couples.