Religion and Ethics Forum

If you're talking about input that is intended to be specifically reliigious, why does it have any? If you're looking at people participating who have a religious affiliation there's significantly more than that 2%. The problem is that there is 2% that is reserved specifically for religious input, and specifically for religious input from one particular sect of one particular branch of one particular domain of one religion.

Did you miss this bit: "In the specific it's been instrumental in the past in laws on slavery, denying women suffrage, denying women rights, denying gay people rights, and currently it's active in opposition to things like the assisted dying bill."?

You could add their blanket support for the 'Listed Places of Worship' scheme which saw them add their voice to a £150 million+ pot of money to subsidise their building maintenance costs, their near blanket opposition to the Civil Partnership Act, their 90% opposition voting record to the Gordon Brown labour government (in contrast to their greater than 60% support of Cameron's government, and less than 30% support of the Coalition), blanket opposition to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, their support of the £20 million extension of the First World War Centenary Cathedral Repair bill, the Place of Worship Security funding (twice) and the extension of the Gift Aid eligibility criteria.

And a curious tidbit that popped up while I was looking that lot up that I hadn't realised before: the Lords Temporal aren't permitted to vote in a General Election... but the Lords Spiritual are.

O.

In part, all of them, given the input of The Church of the England in the drafting and the Head of the Church in the ratification of all legislation. In the specific it's been instrumental in the past in laws on slavery, denying women suffrage, denying women rights, denying gay people rights, and currently it's active in opposition to things like the assisted dying bill.

When they say that a world-view based upon fairy stories is valid. When 'I believe' becomes sufficient to deny reality, the exact same argument can be utilised whether the tenet you want to cleave to is 'all good dogs go to heaven' or 'all the infidels should be bombed to a paste'. 'God wants it' isn't open to rational debate, regardless of what 'it' is.

I found out about this by reading a BBC story about him punching a punter. I think that is likely to be what he is most remembered for, sadly.