It's not about freedom of thought, Tolerance, nor for that matter freedom of faith.

This is a question of child abuse. Anytime an adult makes use of the power that he/she has over an innocent child to inculcate ideas and practises which the child is neither old nor mature enough to understand that is abuse.

It is an abuse of the trust that the child places in adults, and wholly inappropriate behaviour, whether it is about sex, politics, or religion, and when it is done to generate income for the adult it is doubly reprehensible.

The adults in these cases are not fit to be parents, and are certainly very far removed from anything that I would recognise as a Christian.

I think, assuming that there is a God, that there will be an especially unpleasant corner of hell reserved for such as these.

Don T.