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Date: 2012-02-15 05:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com
OK -- there's a risk of two things getting mixed up here:

(1) The lib dem "oh my human rights, I am so wounded" guy from your here:
http://www.libdemvoice.org/opinion-time-to-talk-about-things-that-dont-matter-27109.html#comment-196855
He was as far as we can tell from that column just asked to go into the chamber -- or rather someone expressed concern that he wasn't in the chamber. That's as far from being "forced" as I can possibly imagine. That's a pretty poor level of debate. Unless there's another part of that story he seems to be just being a bit of a dick. (Maybe, giving him the benefit of the doubt, it's wholly possible that he knew the other people were really awkward types and he would have been forced to attend had he kicked up a fuss... but he can't mention it here because...)

(2) The council over which the ruling was made.
I didn't know that detail that they'd voted on it. But was the debate "should prayers be included" or "should everybody take part in prayers". That is if it was "should we have prayers" and the guys who liked prayers voted yes, that's a different prospect from "I find it uncomfortable to be forced to go to these prayers can I be excused" and the guys who liked prayers voted "no".

I guess what I'd like to know is who was being intolerant here. I'm sort of 66% inclined to say it was the religious types being intolerant...

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