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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.