Lord Taverne is an increasing nuisance, trying to use "science" as the cloak for his anti-monarchist activism, and now trying to use the usual drivel to get rid of the prayers in the House of Lords.
At least he has the wit to realise that "multifaith prayers" are a contradiction in terms. But a man who does not know that the Act of Settlement post-dates the Establishment of the Church of England by a century and a half and does not really have any baring on it, or that whether or not the Church of England has ever accounted for "the majority" has likewise never had the first thing to do with its constitutional position, has no proper place in public life at all. It is not the Prince of Wales, but Lord Taverne, who has not the first clue what he is talking about.
The campaign to save the Lord's Prayer in the Australian House of Representatives is going strong, and growing stronger. Not so long long ago, the Assembly in Quebec voted unanimously to keep the Crucifix above the Speaker's Chair and below the Royal Coat of Arms. The future belongs to us. Throwbacks like Dick Taverne should throw themselves back to the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. And stay there.
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