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Petition update, 02 May 2007

More details from petition creator

The law that requires daily acts of collective worship is outdated, and against the human rights of the child to have an education free from religious indoctrination.

In collective worship there is no equality for all, no adequate provisions for those wishing to opt out of it, and it discriminated against those particularly with no faith. It also breaches equal rights.

Religious practice is not education, it is faith, and should be kept seperate from an educational environment.

Current signatories

Phillipa Smith, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Keith Scott
• Suzy Heffer
• Angela Brown
• David Whitmore
• Adam Clement
• Ian Ellis - who hated all that God talk at assembly!
• bob rayner
• Richard Tingle
• Malcolm Webb
• John Morton
• d heale
• Jennifer Peake
• Alistair Wood
• Chris Lewis
• Ewan MacKenzie
• Dave Pearson
• daniel croudace
• Nicholas Lee
• Louise Leyland
• John Dorward
• Phil Bitis
• Jennifer Ockwell
• Andy Suttie
• william ward
• Darren Pile
• David Clegg
• Jeni Hope Cockram
• Stuart Forbes
• Geoffrey Clare
• Martin Cowley
• l matthews
• Hope
• William Arrowsmith
• George Jelliss
• Beryl Scott
• Jeff Rhys
• Michelle Christian
• Borge Trongmo
• kim mair
• Hannah Broughton
• j sankey
• Vexen Crabtree
• Marcus Hill
• Anthony Bunce
• Bernard Kay
• Quentin Brodie Cooper
• Jayne Fitzgerald
• Terry Sanderson
• Lee Wightman
• Andrew Main
• Keith Jordan
• Andrew Dick
• Chris Bond
• Dean Crawford
• Kendrick Paul Zetie
• Lizzie Platt
• Susan Thompson
• Martin Poulter
• Tom Lyall
• Matthew McGee
• Paul Connell
• Steve Howells
• George Rylance
• Irene Henning
• Katherine Ingham
• april keating
• Trevor Stone
• Michael Poole
• Val Jackson
• Christopher Trilsbach
• Tom Hill
• Christopher Taylor
• Alan Rogers
• Chris Hughes
• Adrian Brett
• Neil Davies
• Andrew Baxter
• Gordon Endersby
• Gareth Murcutt
• James McKenzie
• Ron Coward
• Peter Blustin
• Shaun Whitfield
• Guy Burch
• Alan Cowe
• Philip Stringer
• Tim Pearce
• Paul Bohanna
• Paul Taylor
• Angela Kingdom
• Sarah Robbins
• Andrew Armitage
• Belinda Forbes
• Peter Wood Cotterill
• David Keeling
• Annette Cotterill
• Stuart Lawrie
• Alex Kelly
• Mike Ryan
• Steven Eagleson
• Barry Thorpe
• p edmondson
• andrew groves
• Alex Hughes
• Gemma Brunswick
• Bernard Sharp
• Terence Meaden
• Chris Newell
• Matt Eccles
• Helen Searle
• Paolo Grossi
• J Wright
• Jim Quinn
• D.M. Slade
• Mike Armstrong
• Richard Johnson
• Alison Hird
• Robert Watson
• Pauline Brown
• Stella Potter
• Clive A Maier
• Tim Ellidge
• keith davies
• Kevin Vaughan
• Neil Horsburgh
• Tim Reid
• Andrew Roles
• jack gordon
• Dan Worrall
• Linda Carroll
• Robert Bateman
• Awaab Raja
• David Solomon
• Richard Bush
• John Cracknell
• anna-marie dolan
• Ian G Norris
• Dave Washbrooke
• Chris Ranahan
• Chris Cumberpatch
• Stan Redshaw
• Mike Guichard
• Paul Bickmore
• Barry McNorton
• Suzanne Andrzejewski
• susan garland
• Roy Whittaker
• Alyson Ross
• John Flemming
• Anette Schier
• Tony Lord
• Ian Laite
• Iain Rogerson
• Jeremy Smith
• Geoff Bond
• James Orpin
• J. Teage
• Connor Birch
• Justin Moss
• Hamish Renfrew
• Darren Hopkinson
• Malcolm Dodd
• John Catt
• Roger Thorpe
• David Fox
• Martin Wright
• Jennie Johnson
• Alan Gore
• Kate Murray
• tim hudson
• David Lewis
• Alun ap Rhisiart
• Maureen E Tateson
• Chris Murphy
• Carla Samuels
• Ross W Sargent
• Deborah Crane
• Tim Cook
• Jill Dykes
• John Ancliffe
• Allan Spink
• Patricia Innes
• Emilie Roberts
• Susan
• Carina Wildwood
• Sally Hazelton
• Alan Stuart
• Kevin West
• DAVID BENNETT
• Nathan Townshend
• Margaret King
• Melanie Hawthorn
• JANE WALLACE
• Martin Digon
• Dave Turner
• Trevarthen Garrett
• Mark Savage
• ivan Teage
• Andy Morby
• Martin Jackson
• Stephane Mabille
• Phil Healey
• Charles Coventry
• Rudi Samborski
• marcus wheeler
• Eugene Ingram
• Mike Lim
• Dan Kantorowich
• Rob Ager
• Kenneth Law
• howard Phillips
• Bryan Kennerley
• Peter Martin
• Glynn Webb
• Angus Steedman
• David Flint
• Christopher Foster
• Raymond Berger
• Amanda Waite
• Bertil Malmberg
• Max Harrison
• Simon Ridley
• William James
• Rob Murfin
• Victoria Manning
• roger Lewis
• CA Coupe
• Gidon Cohen
• Catherine Shaw
• Allan Hayes
• David Wren
• Stephen Scothern
• Stephen Hoper
• Eamonn Riley
• Tony Kehoe
• Roy Turner
• Peter Klaver
• Andrew Parkin
• malcolm taylor
• Robert Hasell
• anne maclachlan
• Amy Allen
• Cathy Alexander
• Andrew Cornelius
• Katharine Purvis
• joe marinari
• David Gifford
• Colin Garrow
• Matthew Basker
• Adele Taylor
• Neil Messenger
• James Keiller
• Jane Robinson
• Martin Henderson
• Michael Bartlett
• Ross C.Johnstone
• Peter Varley
• Lisa White
• Rachel Spring
• Dave Anderson
• Robin Green
• Robin Duckworth
• Julia C
• Annette Pryce
• Toni Robarts
• Amanda Pantling
• belinda davies
• michael john brockington
• Michael Foster
• Chris Stevens
• Tony Akkermans
• Debbie Wilbur
• Anthony G Connor
• R. Kenward
• Frazer Mountford
• Geoffrey May