Tommy Sheppard, MP for Edinburgh East, told a Humanist Society Scotland Fringe meeting last year that people should “chip away” at the “power of organised religion” within schools.
His remarks at the event – which was promoting the society’s “Enlighten Up” campaign to end mandatory religious representation on councils’ education committees – only came to light in recent weeks and drew an angry reaction from the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland.
Mr Sheppard, who describes himself as a humanist, said the role of religion in classrooms was for “people to learn about it but not for it to define the value system in the school”.
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