Does VisitScotland promote a Knoxian image of Scotland to the rest of the world ?

A couple of years ago, research showed that Visit Scotland, the government agency that tried to promote Homecoming 2009 as a whites-only event, found itself reporting in 2013 that it had just 1 worker identifying as Catholic, out of a workforce of 763.  When challenged on the potential for sectarianism hidden in the data, there was much corporate bluster, lifting of carpets and feverish brushing under of embarrassing data sets.

This year, Visit Scotland decided not to bother with the carpet and instead adopted the classic wood/trees approach to hiding data. In a report it was explained, with one presumes the straightest of corporate faces, that in gathering data on the religious profile of the workforce :

A number of religions and beliefs were stated by employees in the ‘Other’ category. These include: Atheist, Catholic, Humanist and Jedi.

This is just a tiny sample of the corporate culture and practices on religious equality in public sector Scotland in 2015.  The table below shows that even with Scotland's population having over 15% of people identifying as Catholic, Scotland's public sector has managed to significantly exclude Catholics from working in the sector.

To paraphrase Alex Salmond's comments on the speech recently made by Hilary Benn on the bombing of Syria, John Knox will surely be spinning in his grave with joy at the discrimination still facing Catholics in Scotland.