Germany has a long history of religious education in public schools since Martin Luther s Small Catechism and the Bible were taught in the primary school at the time of the Reformation. Based on the Weimar Constitution and Article 7 Paragraph 3 of the Constitution, religious education in Germany is supported by the government, which is obligated to keep neutrality, but the churches, usually either Protestant, Roman Catholic or Jewish, are responsible for its content. The religious courses are designed along confessional lines emphasizing religious devotion, which has met strong opposition from people who insist on teaching about various religions and values, especially since Student Movement of 1968. Classes like LER in Brandenburg and ethics or philosophy as alternative courses in some federal states show that teaching about religion has already replaced devotional religious education. Currently there is an ongoing controversy in Berlin about the introduction of Ethics as a regular compulsory subject in public schools, while relegating Religion to the status of an elective. It reflects the crisis which religious education encounters in the current movement of cultural diversity.