Why retirement based on chronological age? Look at Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Good start would be to get rid of #LordsSpiritual - as an anachronism in a post religious country
Just b/c some ppl are nominally religious - hatch, match & dispatch - doesn't mean we need theocratic law makers!
26 bishops are given seats as of right in #HouseOfLords. This is unfair, undemocratic and undesirable. Join our campaign to scrap the #BishopsBench. 👇👇👇 www.secularism.org.uk/scrap-bishop... #LordsSpiritual #SeparateChurchAndState
26 bishops are given seats as of right in #HouseOfLords. This is unfair, undemocratic and undesirable. Join our campaign to scrap the #BishopsBench. 👇👇👇 www.secularism.org.uk/scrap-bishop... #LordsSpiritual #SeparateChurchAndState
The UK is the only western democracy which reserves seats for clerics in its legislature - unfair, undemocratic and undesirable. Please write to your MP and urge them to support #HouseOfLords reform to remove the #BishopsBench 👇👇👇 www.secularism.org.uk/mp-letter-bi... #LordsSpiritual
62% of Brits think no religious clerics should have an automatic right to seats in the #HouseOfLords. Do you agree? Join our campaign to abolish the #BishopsBench 👇👇👇 www.secularism.org.uk/scrap-bishop... #LordsSpiritual #SeparateChurchAndState
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My point: "Mr" Welby resigns his seat as +Cantuar, but he will still be an unelected legislator, paid for by millions of people who aren't even religious, pontificating over our laws, lives & even deaths! Think about it!
#UKLabour: You should have ditched the #LordsSpiritual!
62% of Brits think no religious clerics should have an automatic right to seats in the #HouseOfLords. Do you agree? Join our campaign to abolish the #BishopsBench 👇👇👇 www.secularism.org.uk/scrap-bishop... #LordsSpiritual #SeparateChurchAndState
