"Sectarianism" and Catholic schools in Scotland

The Christianity Today weblog has links to a number of articles (here, here, here, and here) concerning Scotland's First Minister's upcoming "summit on sectarianism."  It sounds like Cardinal Keith O'Brien is threatening to "hijack" the summit by -- gasp! -- "demanding the repeal of the Act of Settlement, which bans Catholics from the throne" and suggesting that "there can be no end to religious bigotry without scrapping the 300-year-old law."  The nerve of him. 

It also appears that high on some people's to-do list is getting the government to "end the 'divisive' system of separate education for Catholics."  Thankfully, however -- according to a spokesman -- "[t]he First Minister believes there are more important ways of tackling discrimination than abolishing the Act of Settlement. On education, the issue is that Catholic schools exist and they play an important tole in the drive against sectarianism."

Rick