And on the seventh day Tony Blair created...

[purpletigron]

As reported in The Observer (Graunaid) on Sun 3 Aug:

Blair "has set up a ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas 'across Whitehall'. ... Blair's move is believed to have the strong support of the two other leading Christian members of the Cabinet, David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, and Paul Boateng, Chief Secretary of the Treasury.

The working group ['Faith Community Liaison Group'] will be chaired by the Home Office Minister with responsibility for what is called 'civic renewal', Fiona Mactaggart. The members will include Estelle Morris, the former Education Secretary who is now the Arts Minister, and Christian organisations including the Evangelical Alliance.

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Keith Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, which includes in its membership a number of Labour MPs, said ... that despite repeated requests non-religious groups have been excluded from any involvement in the religious working group."

I happen to be in the constituency of a "Working Group" member, so we may well be lobbying in person on this issue. www.FaxYourMP.org is available.

(Thanks to yonmei for the heads-up on this)

Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the heads-up on Fax Your MP! I've added it to my post, and used it.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

My MP has now been faxed as well.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Only her Fax machine seems to have stopped working... Grump!