Mione Goldspink's article for the Bishop's Stortford Flyer December 2015
Local Matters with Mione Goldspink I was saddened to see the resignation of the young Conservative District Councillor so soon after his election in May. As an atheist he felt most uncomfortable when Christian prayers were said at the beginning of the Full Council meetings, so he proposed a motion that this practice should be discontinued. After a short debate this motion was overwhelmingly defeated. None of the speakers attempted to understand Cllr McNeece's genuine discomfort and none of them showed any willingness to reconsider the practice. If he had been a Jew or a Muslim I am sure that more conciliation would have been shown. I am not an atheist, I am a Christian. Three of the world's great religions - Judaism, Islam and Christianity (all with a common history before Abraham) share some common instructions - that we should worship God and that we should deal kindly with our fellows. Some of our fellows are atheists and agnostics, and I believe that we should treat them all with respect, with kindness a
