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Posted by soton si on Mon Aug 27 15:49:05 2007, in response to Re: nonsense about Religion in England, posted by RonInBayside on Mon Aug 27 15:13:31 2007. "No, more like the state deciding that the one official religion should no longer be treated preferentialy to the others."but it wasn't - it could have been, at the discretion of the courts, a full on ban on the CofE, amoung others. If it was to remove the preferential treatment, it would be dealing with the House of Lords, not people's freedom of speech. It wasn't an attack specifically on the CofE, however the less wishy-washy people in the Church that the Church and the Government are often embarrassed to have, could have been silenced, even if unintentionally (especially with respect to Islam, as the whole point of the bill was to "In the United states there are ordained clergy who hold elected office." though not because they are ordained clergy! there's some Muslim leaders and the Chief Rabbi too, IIRC. "As to your other points about local English politics, I acknowledge what you're saying." Just to be pedantic - I haven't made any points about local English politics. I don't think I've made many about English politics. I've made a quite a few about nationwide British politics. Local English politics would be such things as parking restrictions, TESCOs not being satisfied with only having their most profitable store in the country in Amersham and deciding to open up a store half a mile away, even big things like West London Tram being horrific and so on that aren't dealt with national Government (which is the Government over 3 and a bit nations, of course). Then again, I know how an Island 800 miles long is rather local in America ;). |
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