Two English bishops have responded after a government advisor criticised Catholic schools.
Two days ago, Dame Louise Casey, a senior government adviser on integration, told a Commons select committee: "It is not OK for Catholic schools to be homophobic and anti-gay marriage." She added: "I have a problem with the expression of religious conservatism because I think often it can be anti-equalities."
Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth told the Catholic News Service (CNS) that any restrictions on Catholic schools passing on the Church's moral teachings would be worthy of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The bishop said it was increasingly difficult to engage in reasonable discussion and argument over anything to do with sexuality.
