Show TAKES RELIGION FROM SCHOOLS british court dec dee des people need not pay for this instruction london A decision given by the court of 0 appeals leaves the question of rell religious bious education in great brit ain in a peculiar position the edca tion act of 1902 was intended to compel local authorities to pay tor for religious instruction in the voluntary schools and led to the notorious passive resistance movement under which numbers of nonconformists re fused to pay the rates levied to cover this expenditure for church schools tn in the meantime the county council of the west riding of re fused to pa teachers tor the time devoted by tl alem em to religious instruct tion the board of education then sought the assistance of the courts in the matter with the result that the court of appeals decided in favor of the yorkshire council II 11 this decision should be upheld by the house of lords whither the case now will be carried it w 11 ll deally accomplish by a stroke what the bill now in parliament of august ine birrell president of the board of education alms aims at and furthermore it possibly may enable a large num her of passive resisters to bring ac tion tor for fals imprisonment the entire trouble appears to be due to the careless drafting of the bill in 1902 |