must be a matter of individual conscience, not of state approval.This discontinuity produces friction and the occasional flare-up, usually reported with outrage in the Telegraph or Mail. Local councils have been the focus of recent cases. The new lord mayor of Leicester, Colin Hall, dropped prayers at council meetings, announcing his decision in the journal of the city's Secular Society. "I personally consider that religion," he wrote, "in whatever shape or form, has no role to play at all in the conduct of council business. This particularly applies in Leicester where the majority of council members, myself included, do not regularly attend any particular faith service."
Enfield Council, meanwhile, swapped prayers for poems.
from Bryan Appleyard: The God-shaped hole in our lives
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