To add to my last post I am not trying to suggest Scotland is devoid of prejudice. Unfortunately it is not. It would be unwise for a govt to base its policies on the base prejudices of sections of the population though! To give an example in the Scottish Govt's own Social Attitude's Survey some 18% of people said that gay men or lesbians were unsuitable to be primary school teachers. They in fact came out rather well compared with others though. 46% of people believed a Gypsy would be unsuitable for a teacher; whilst 41% believed people who suffered from depression at times were unsuitable; and 39% beleived that people aged 70 or over were unsuitable to teach primary school children!