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  Jim, I am sure that for a lot of religious people their faith does affect most aspects of their lives but not everyone is religious. For some it is an expression of who they are, for some an idea of what they think the country should be. For others it is a weekly habit or tag they use to describe themselves and for a growing number it is, at best, an irrelevance. I never suggested that anyone should give up their faith or hide it, only that they should not put it in everyone else's faces. A council is a secular body and, as the figures show, in an increasingly secular world this is how it should be. Were I to suggest that meetings should open with a reading from Darwin there would be outrage, why should prayers be any different?

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