Christianity’s place was never the problem in JR87: the test is how it is taught…

The Department says its revised Religious Education syllabus is objective, critical and pluralistic, and the draft is a substantial improvement on the 2007 arrangement. But the Supreme Court’s objection in JR87 was to how Christianity was taught, not to how much of it there was, so adding breadth does not by itself answer a confessional mode of delivery. Two difficulties remain unaddressed: a statutory question about teaching denominational difference in controlled schools, and a withdrawal...