Taxpayer-funded religious teaching in UK

Hat-tip to Onegoodmove. A.C. Grayling writes of how Ed Balls, the schools secretary for the Government (UK), joined with religious leaders around a proclamation endorsing religious schools as aiding social cohesion. Not only is this a ridiculous notion--that segregating children based on faith makes society more unified--but it bolsters the concept of taxpayer funding of religious education, something that the UK needs to get away from, and something we here in the US struggle to keep at bay.