Should the Lords prayer be banned?

[MicrosoftBob]

Do you mean the official version or the Motorhead version ?

[d000hg]

The BBC has now replaced the word "ban" with "snub" in the headline.

Admin, can you change the thread title to "Should the Lord's Prayer be snubbed?" please

Why can't they just mumble it unintelligibly like everyone else.

[NickFitz]

I also wonder what would have happened if Dawkins mob had got there first and wanted their "God probably doesn't exist..." advert in the cinemas. Would that have been permitted? Atheists argue that their stance is not religious. And it certainly isn't political.

No, it wouldn't have been permitted, as the advertising policy in question (PDF) states:

2.2 For the purpose of purposes of clause 2.1.3 above, Political or Religious Advertising means:
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2.2.2 advertising which wholly or partly advertises any religion, faith or equivalent systems of belief (including any absence of belief) or any part of any religion, faith or such equivalent systems of belief.

[BrilloPad]

Why can't they just mumble it unintelligibly like everyone else.

I loved having my CoE family along to Catholic baptism and first holy communion of the kids. When its stops and they carry on! Makes my day.....

[SpontaneousOrder]

The UK is a secular country with deep christian heritage. Christmas may have been hijacked by the shops selling to the none believers pretty trinkets but their are plenty of other traditions such as Easter.

I hope the church take them to the cleaners. Private business are not allowed to discriminate on Faith, Gender or sexual orientation. Remember when other business were taken to court (and rightly so) for refusing to bake a cake/let a B&B room to a gay couple.

Very wrongly so, in fact.

[NickFitz]

The UK is a secular country with deep christian heritage. Christmas may have been hijacked by the shops selling to the none believers pretty trinkets but their are plenty of other traditions such as Easter.

I hope the church take them to the cleaners. Private business are not allowed to discriminate on Faith, Gender or sexual orientation. Remember when other business were taken to court (and rightly so) for refusing to bake a cake/let a B&B room to a gay couple.

They aren't "discriminating on Faith". They refuse all religion-related advertising, including advertising for the purpose of rejecting religion. That isn't discrimination.

[BrilloPad]

Discrimination implies favouring one group over others, so the examples you gave are not the same. This is a case of a business refusing all religious ads, not a case of favouring one religious group over another. Of course, if this turns out to be wrong and they are forced to show any religious ads before a cinema screening then get ready for ads with religious messages that you disagree with....

I disagree as they have discriminated against religious groups in general. There are far worse adverts around.

[d000hg]

Doesn't Christian Aid Week get advertised?

[MicrosoftBob]

The UK is a secular country with deep pagan heritage. The Winter Solstice may have been hijacked by the Christians and renamed as Christmas, then the corporates hijacked Christmas selling to the none believers pretty trinkets but their are plenty of other traditions such as Samhain.

I hope the druids complain about the church tacomplaining. Private business are not allowed to discriminate on Faith, Gender or sexual orientation. Remember when other business were taken to court (and rightly so) for refusing to bake a cake/let a B&B room to a gay couple.

FTFY

[BrilloPad]

They aren't "discriminating on Faith". They refuse all religion-related advertising, including advertising for the purpose of rejecting religion. That isn't discrimination.

Rejecting religious advertising is discrimination. Provided it is not offensive I don't see the issue.