Oh Lord! Kent County Council

[Imdunfer]

Kent County Council under Reform are putting a vote to full council to start council meetings with the Lords Prayer.

I get the anti Muslim bit, but don't they realise how many of us are atheists?

They also want to sing the National Anthem. I can sort of see their point with that one, but it's not going to get the bins collected, is it?

The bins are ok round us so hoping they don't mess up now. Everything council run was great tbh except pot holes of course. We will see what happens now our Labour council has been given the boot. We live 200 metres from an asylum hotel so expecting that to be shut by the end of the week. Watch this space. I mean that's what they've said they will do.
I think a few people will get a taste of you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
But I'm definitely going to be watching.

No more and no less than councillors who are not humanist.

Of course my preference would be to just skip the whole thing and get down to the work.

I can tell you that our Reform councillor who frequently spoke about the Church of England never set foot in the parish church of his ward. Probably for the best re: the reform councillor as I doubt he would have found any of the sermons very to his liking - speaking about love, forgiveness and mercy isn’t really up his street!

'The Pilgrimage" suggests that all these people came together for the purpose of something related to practicing faith. The people in the council chamber are not attending a prayer meeting or an inter-faith sharing experience. They have come together for the purpose of working out how the bins will be emptied, the roadworks scheduled, the playparks repaired, etc etc etc and how to assign budgets to all these needs. And some will be there simply to further their political ambitions.

There is no place for any sectarian prayer in the Council Chamber.

No one will be forced to participate. Stay quiet and reflective.

When I am a guest at a funeral Mass or an Eid, or if my host Grace before dinner, then I will stay quiet and reflective. Expecting me to stay quiet and reflective when I am a representative of my town community, attending the Council Chamber to carry out the public service to which I was elected, emphasises that I am a guest, that this is not my place. Put up and shut up, foreigner!

They will be forced to witness one group of people acting separately from the rest or be excluded from the room.

It's not appropriate.

My post was a bit tongue about open mindedness, understanding and the type of people who do and don't come together seeking the things they have in common rather than the things that divide them.

I agree with you. The nationalistic sing song and prayers is a nonsense in what is essentially a workplace.

They are spending loads of money on advisors because they don't know what they are doing.

Reform, the English magas. Christianity is on a constant decline. Just fascism rearing it's ugly head. People are so full of hate and ignorance xx

Churches are also pretty ethnically diverse too. When I go Id say its less than 50% White.

Kent should think themselves lucky they don't have the reform councillor up in Doncaster wanting a committee to monitor UFO activity.

Thought Reform were going to get stuck in to the day job
Singing the National Anthem
And the Lords prayer is top of the pops for them.
Clueless cunts springs to mind.

No mention of flags? Surely there should be flag waving? Compulsory flag waving?

We are (majority wise) a Christian country. If we must have prayers (not sure why) then obviously it should be our primary religion. 🤷‍♀️

If it was in other countries, then they would use their primary religion.

The majority of the population identify as something other than Christian though.

Latest census suggests the UK is not a majority Christian country - the largest group is 'no faith'. So no prayers it is then.