EDUCATION DEFENCE.
The Secular Education Defence League of Wellington has issued a circular, in'which it warns the public against the designs of, the' Bible--in-Schools party. Referring to the right of entry demand of the Bible-in-Schools League, the circular asks: "Will Atheists, Agnostics, Mormons, Spiritualists, Christian Socialists, and Secularist Socialists be given the right of entry? If not, why not?" The circular further says: "The call for a referendum, or general plebiscite, on a religious questfbn, is unsound. To take a political referendum on a ireligious issue is to confuse matters of publio judgment with those of private conscience, to the degradation of religion and the conniption of .politics. Majority rule in matters of religious belief, or not-belief, whether ascertained by referendum or otherwise, has left a broad crimson trail over the pagas of history."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 4
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134EDUCATION DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 4
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