Congratulations, the US Supreme Court, for making a sensible decision based on Constitutional precedent that horrendous rightwing idiots will pretend is overreach until long after we’re all dead.
To celebrate, here is a nostalgic musing on religion in education.
There was a strange Welsh Baptist chemistry teacher at my high school who ran a renegade version of the Christian Society (the actual Christian Society was run by a nice Quaker chap who was extremely ecumenical and earnest).
It showed exposes by American Southern Baptist churches about how evil everything was. Including a four-part series about how evil rock and roll was.
Naturally, we pitched up to this every lunchtime, on the grounds that rock and roll and bearded Southern Baptists explaining exactly how evil rock and roll was were both more fun than a drizzly field in Guildford.
My favourite bit was when at the end of the final episode, the Southern Baptist presenter explained that not all modern music was bad, to the accompaniment of some utterly awful evangelical Christian Rock dirge, and Mr Jenkins paused the tape to point out to us that actually all modern music is very bad indeed.
We affirmed his opinion that this music was, indeed, very bad. He seemed happy.
Not that all fundagelical music is bad. One thinks of the two gospel albums Bob Dylan recorded, or the rather superior Place Of Skulls.