Things are looking interesting if you read the right papers. There was an editorial in the Daily Express on Friday regarding a public library that had refused an Iranian Christian group permission to post flyers about an event they were planning. Of course, no religious notices at all are allowed in libraries and it’s been that way for years.
This outraged the papers editor who chided those involved for forgetting Christianity’s “Special Place” in this country. Not a day before, they were taking fire at the government over a law that banned marriages of convenience. but had failed to ban them in the Church of England as the priests “closely question” the couple. Of course, the law was challenged and beaten on Human Rights grounds.
Now, let’s get this in perspective. The first incident shows an unbiased secular policy working as intended, the second incident could quite easily have been avoided all together if a proper, unbiased secular policy had be in place!
The point that should be made is that a large portion of the UK is non Christian, and the figure gets higher the young the age group. The only sane way forward at this point is a secular government and the seperation of Church and State in Britain!
You can find the BBC/ICM poll on religious denomination here.
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