Actually I have. And the judge makes no ruling on the validity or otherwise of the opinion expressed by Smith.

Possibly you don't understand what validity means in this context? An opinion can be expressed legally without being valid. For example, I could express the opinion that the moon is made of green cheese without fear of prosecution.

I see you're trying to trivialize the matter.

Not unexpected.

I'm sorry, either you have missed my point or I am missing your point, but your comment doesn't really seem relevant.

Your point was to talk about one Church of England school and then extrapolate it to apply to all Church of England schools. In other words, your post was meaningless.

Not much else can be done with a post as idiotic as yours was.

Indeed. And it can be expressed legally AND be valid.

Your point is?

Oh I see what you mean, what you're saying is that you don't want to believe that church schools, and churches in general, build on their substantial assets by extracting cash from the more gullible rather than using their own investments to maintain and build on their own assets ?

Like they have all done for a thousand years or so ?

Any time you want to start paying my mortgage just let me know, it'll still be my name on the deeds when you've paid it off though...

Interesting. You've changed your tune from a couple of weeks ago when every view was valid.

Come now - I know you're not thick. My point, clearly delineated in my very first post, is that the judge made no assessment of the validity of the opinion expressed. He simply ruled on the legality. And rightly so.

I agree, the religious hate this truth lark.

Yes, and I'm aware that, contrary to your claims, at no point has the wife of the Holy Trinity Church vicar been the headteacher of the school.

A good kick in the balls against the PC brigade this. Well done.