[WillowTheWhisp]

You could look at Religious Education from two different perspectives. Either teach the subject as you would any other part of the school curriculum and cover a wide variety of world religions (which tends to happen anyway as far as my children have experienced) or teach them ethical and moral standards. It could be argued that the parents should be doing the latter at home but sadly in some cases some parents don't seem to have been taught any themselves.

I do agree that it's about time the C of E stopped having such a privileged position in the country and the connection between it and politics has become more than incongruous. Are there any figures (oh how I hate statistics) regarding actual (active as opposed to nominal) membership of the C of E compared to other denominations and religions?

Maybe some of Prince Charles' problems could be solved if he started his own church and got married there? If Henry VIII could do it why can't he?