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Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute

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On 05/03/2016 20:19, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 19:14:38 +0000 (UTC), "Ted&Alice Street"
> <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> wrote:
>
>> Christopher A. Lee wrote:
>>


>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jenkins_%28bishop%29
>>
>> Makes me envious of the Brits.
>
> Occasionally there are loonies in positions of authority.
>
> Tony Blair has bequeathed an increase in the number of faith schools.

Which, to be fair, is not an altogether unreasonable policy, judging by 
the relative success of mainstream "religion lite" faith schools such as 
CofE or Catholic schools.  They consistently rank above comparable 
secular schools in the league tables.


>
> Another loonie was James Anderton, the chief of the Greater Manchester
> Police who was a born-again who and quite vicious about it. One of his
> first actions was to charge the city centre newsstands and newsagents
> under the obscene publications act, for not putting the tabloids (with
> their page three girls) on the top shelf next to the girly mags.
>
> He also rigidly enforced the (now largely repealed) Sunday trading
> laws, prosecuting owners and operators of do-it-your-self stores who
> did most of their business on Sundays when people needed tools and
> materials for the jobs they were doing. And shops selling un-dated
> material like books because only dated material like newspapers could
> be sold. Likewise, fresh food was allowed but not canned.

To be honest, I am not unhappy about Sunday trading bans.  We are now 
under such relentless pressure to consume consume consume that a day of 
respite is not a bad thing, it seems to me.  I don't care which day of 
the week it is, but I think a day without running down to the shops to 
buy more stuff we don't need on credit we cannot afford when we can 
spend time on ourselves and our families has value.

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Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 09:08 +0000
  Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 12:42 +0000
    Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 13:03 +0000
      Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 13:47 +0000
        Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 14:04 +0000
          Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 14:31 +0000
            Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 19:14 +0000
              Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "%" <persent@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 12:18 -0700
                Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 19:28 +0000
              Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 21:08 +0000
                Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 23:28 +0000
                Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "%" <persent@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 16:53 -0700
                Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-06 12:41 +0000
              Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 23:46 +0000
            Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 23:53 +0000
          Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-03-05 23:46 +0000
            Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 00:07 +0000
              Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-03-06 19:56 +0000
        Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 19:15 +0000
      Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute Don Kresch <no@spam.org> - 2016-03-06 15:41 -0600
  Re: Atheist Lawmaker's Prayer Sets off Arizona House Dispute MattB <trdell12345@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 10:05 -0800

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