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Tom Devine suggests that what he calls "sniping" about Catholic schools in Scotland is an element of residual animosity to Catholics ("Spot the Catholic", THES, September 10).

As a secular Scot, my objection to state-funded religious schools is that they remain socially divisive as well as enshrining outrageous discriminatory employment practices.

The state provision of religious schools is every bit as sectarian as the discrimination suffered by many Catholics until recently and is especially problematic in an increasingly multicultural and multifaith Scotland.

Neil W Paterson

Wormit, Fife