UK - East Lothian councillors strip church (and unions) of voting rights
UK - East Lothian councillors strip church (and unions) of voting rights
Councillors were keen to stress the representatives would still be on the committee and were not 'being silenced' but said they should not be able to vote as they were not elected
So East Lothian becomes the latest UK Council to strip unelected church members of their voting rights, following a public consultation where 84 per cent of people believed religious representatives should not be allowed a say.
Amusingly (and somewhat amazingly) some Council members had an issue with this. One of them said:
“I wonder if this is the start of the removed on any representation or moral compass from the education committee. It sits uneasy with me.”
Because we all know it's only the Church that has morals. The rest of us exist in a pile of amoral awfulnes, unable to know the difference between right and wrong because the sky daddy doesn't talk to us.