NSW:Godless ethics led to Nazism: Nile

AAP General News (Australia)
08-05-2011
NSW:Godless ethics led to Nazism: Nile

Conservative New South Wales crossbench MP FRED NILE has introduced his private member's
bill to abolish school ethics classes, arguing the course is based on a philosophy linked
to Nazism and Communism.

The Christian Democratic Party MP has told the upper house his bill will abolish ethics
in public schools at the end of this school year, saying that with just 27-hundred students
enrolled in the course, the program's a failure.

The former Labor government introduced the ethics classes as an alternative to traditional
scripture lessons.

Mr NILE has provoked anger among Greens and Labor MPs, by saying the dangerous secular
humanist philosophy taught in the ethics course led to the worst atrocities committed
during World War II.

Debate on the ethics bill is adjourned to September 16.

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KEYWORD: ETHICS (SYDNEY)

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