The original ethics lessons were instated in response to an "honour killing" of a woman by her Muslim brother because he thought she lead too secular of a life. I think the response to this — of explicitly teaching ethics to kids — was genius. I wish we had the same thing in this country. But now that the taught ethics come into conflict with religious teaching (what a surprise), various people (mainly Christian and Muslim leaders) want the option to replace the ethics lessons with exclusivist religion-specific lessons.I cannot think of a worse idea. If religious teachings contravene basic ethics, the the answer is NOT to throw away the ethics!! I'll bet they just don't want their kids being taught to tolerate gays... I really think that's one of the key motivations. Can you think of *any good* which can arise if the religious apologists win this?