Political posturing and the Equalities Bill

The Evening Standard reports this evening that the Government has confirmed that the Equalities Bill will stop the BNP from preventing black people and jews from joining the BNP party. Is there a black person or a Jew that wants to join this racist party? If so, they need their head examining.

More seriously, and on a more practical point, I wonder whether the Equalities Bill will take any action against state funded Church Schools that are allowed to discriminate against children of parents who refuse to practice Christianity? Somehow I doubt it. Faith schools will still be able to effectively ban non-believers despite the fact that it is non-believers that mainly fund such schools.

Personally I don’t like the BNP or church schools. But whereas I have to contribute to church schools through my taxes, at least I get a choice about whether or not to contribute to BNP funds. And bizarrely, while Jews will now enjoy my ‘right’ to join the BNP, we’d both be unable to send our children to our local school, because of our rejection of Christianity.