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176 Values and Civil and Political Liberties statements. Both categories, those who speak or write, and those who react violently to such statements, are abusing human rights values of free speech and free protest. Because compulsory assimilation, effected by limited institutional provision, denies the right to remain of different religious persuasion, there is need for reexamining such institutions, particularly schools. In any such re-examination it must also be remembered that separate schools can be at the cost of indoctrinating or even of forcing those within a minority, especially girls, into conformity with minority traditions which may limit their personal freedom, deny equal opportunities and depart from equality between the sexes. Certainly, if there are to be more publicly-funded religious schools, their teachers must be academically satisfactory and able to deliver the National Curriculum, while equal educational opportunities must be provided for all pupils. Those results could be achieved by adequate inspecting machinery in conjunction with the Secretary of State for Education's powers when considering whether to authorise voluntary bodies of a particular religious persuasion to establish a new voluntary-aided school. If initially satisfied as to academic criteria, provision of equal opportunities and ability to meet expenses required to be met by the establishing body, it seems unreasonable that the Secretary of State may deny permission on the ground that there is not "an overall need for extra maintained school places in the area," a criterion currently permitting him to refuse permission. The interests of small groups, seeking to keep their distinctiveness, raise perplexing issues, and Governments need to handle these hyper-sensitively, with understanding of different traditions and acting generously, even if the results are additional calls on state resources and administrative problems, requiring a degree of alertness
An Evaluation of Governments' Records 177 by school inspectors that persons within religious schools are equally enjoying educational opportunities. One recent major measure seems inappropriate in a plural society. I refer to the provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988, requiring acts of school worship to be wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character. Although there is the safeguard that Local Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education may allow schools to provide alternative worship, this seems inadequate to prevent children from minority religions being influenced in school assemblies by religious precepts not subscribed to by their families. If voluntary bodies are not being permitted to establish schools, this matter is of genuine and immediate concern. As mentioned earlier, United Kingdom law does not prohibit discrimination on grounds of age, ill-health, or sexual orientation as opposed to discrimination on grounds of sex (that is, male or female). Official policy discourages discrimination against HIV positive persons, but there is no specific provision, other than that dismissal must in all cases be fair, preventing homosexuals and lesbians from facing discrimination in their employment on grounds of their sexual orientation. Indeed, the state itself practices some discrimination in the Diplomatic Service which has not employed even acknowledged homosexuals. Nor is there any general prohibition on discrimination against such persons, as for example, where facilities are denied them because of their sexual orientation. A field in which some intervention, both in the interests of persons affected and of the general public, is necessary is life insurance. Many insurance companies decline life cover to persons who have had an HIV test, unless there is a "good" reason for taking such a test (say, working as a medical laboratory technician) and the potential insured's lifestyle (whatever his or her sexual preference) is not one
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THE AMLY LECTURES Forty-second seri
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THE UNITED KINGDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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CONTENTS The Hamlyn Lectures vii Th
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viii The Hamlyn Lectures 1959 Judge
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x The Hamlyn Lectures 1985 Law and
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xii The Hamlyn Trust London, Leeds,
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xiv The Hamlyn Legacy Torquay. Will
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xvi The Hamlyn Legacy grandfather.
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xviii The Hamlyn Legacy realising a
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