Poor old Baroness Warsi. She's just been booted out of the cabinet in the recent reshuffle only to be resurrected as "Minister for Faith and Communities" - a position only slightly less demeaning than Chairperson of the Tory Party. Still, I am trying to understand why the Government (and the opposition for that matter) is playing the faith card so vehemently of late, when all the indicators are that most folk these days would rather pray at the temple of Tesco's on a Sunday morning. Whatever the reason, the sound people over at the National Secular Society are on the case...
'Many will write it off as red meat being thrown to the raving fundamentalists on the back bench of the Tory Party, but the appointment of Baroness Warsi as "Minister for Faith and Communities" is potentially threatening for secularism.
'She recently held a meeting with the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, in which he took the opportunity to repeat to her the patently untrue mantra that "faith plays a central role within society and in building a cohesive society."' (National Secular Society article).
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