http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099971/Defiant-Speaker-vows-prayer-ban-Commons.html?ito=feeds-newsxml 

 

Cristina Odone calls for Christians to fight back and asks what the NSS does for the poor

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9078434/Its-time-for-Christians-to-fight-back.html

 

Lord Carey uses the prayers debate to promote his new book “We don’t do God”

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/301588/A-Christian-call-to-arms-by-Lord-Carey?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2099544/As-judge-bans-prayers-council-meetings-Archbishop-Canterbury-warns-faith-siege.html

 

Chris Bryant may table a PMB allowing local councils to vote on the matter of prayers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9076902/Fighting-for-the-right-to-pray.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/chris-bryant/chris-bryant-how-sanctimonious-and-uptight-do-you-have-to-be-to-object-to-these-prayers-6715347.html

Bryant’s column was criticised by the readers: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-religion-and-politics-6804813.html

 

George Pitcher says judges have given two fingers up to Christianity

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2099461/Two-judges-today-given-fingered-salute-Church-England.html?

 

Cranmer twigs that predominantly non-Christian areas may subject minority Christian councillors to Islamic prayers

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2012/02/islamic-prayers-in-council-meetings.html?

 

Dr Tim Stanley, Telegraph blogger, says that secularism denies our history and destroys out identity

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100136814/secularism-is-eradicating-our-history-and-destroying-british-identity/?

 

BBC gives a whole article to Lord Carey’s views, and two lines for response

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-16995239

 

Guardian editorial ponders whether this is the beginning of the end for the establishment of the Church

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/10/chruch-state-prayer-power

 

Telegraph editorial demands that the ruling be overturned

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9074393/Hear-our-prayer.html

BHA mention in the letters section: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9077659/Another-step-in-the-removal-of-Christianity-from-public-life-of-Britain.html

 

Front-cover piece on the Daily Mail ‘Christianity under attack’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099300/Councils-BANNED-saying-prayers-meetings-sparking-fury-Government-church-leaders.html

 

Michael Nazir-Ali and an Islamic group join the critics, though a Tory councillor in Surrey is supportive

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9074872/High-Court-council-prayers-ruling-an-attack-on-centuries-old-Christian-traditions.html

 

Nadine Dorries blogs

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thecolumnists/2012/02/from-nadinedorriesmp-parliament-must-prevent-anti-religious-groups-from-stopping-prayers-before-coun.html?

I once regarded the National Secular Society and the British Humanist Association in much the same vein, two organisations which believed in, well, nothing much really and were therefore harmless. I have learnt during my time as an MP that both are very far from harmless, extremely political and intent on imposing their anti-faith view, which is in itself rigid and dogmatic, pursued mainly by zealots, so it can only be described as a form of belief in its own right.

It is only when someone attempts to unpick the accepted fabric of our society that one begins to realise the extent to which the National Secular Society and the British Humanist Association wish to alter our spiritual landscape which is based upon tolerance and freedom.

 

Blogger on Liberal Conspiracy attacks Dorries

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/02/12/hysterical-claims-that-christians-are-under-attack-are-rubbish/

 

Bishop of Exeter calls for councils to pray before the meeting officially starts

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9074209/Bishop-of-Exeter-urges-councils-to-use-prayer-loophole.html

 

Theos’s Paul Bickley writes how the ruling has not clarified whether we live in a secular state or not

http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2012/02/12/analysis-the-council-prayers-debate