I understand what you'd like to see, Steve. You'd like to see some parents change their ways, and you'd like to see an end to faith schools, and you'd like to see opting in by children at all ages rather than opting in.

But that wasn't my question. Would you wish society, and the state, to set out to bring about those changes? And if so, how should it be done?

It's interesting to note that in the USA where official efforts to exclude religion from schools are the policy, religious practice is far more prevalent than in the UK, and its impact on politics far greater, often in ways that I suspect neither of us see as healthy.