As a secular activist, I am appalled that Northamptonshire Borough Council has introduced a so-called "faith champion", and I will campaign vigorously to ensure that City of York Council never has one.
Nationwide surveys indicate that more people are non-religious than religious, so it's safe to assume that secularists at least outnumber the active members of any one religious group. Why should the religious get special representation, and isn't it just as important to recognise the contributions made by the non-religious?
Religion is already well represented. Believers know how to raise their voices whenever their interests are threatened.
Secularists, on the other hand, herd as well as cats do - and so rarely make themselves heard as a group. Religions already receive special treatment in forms such as the taxation to fund faith schools, which of course means secularists are reluctantly paying for them too.
I am appalled religious groups are receiving more support in the form of this appointment. They already have enough influence and don't need any special representation on the local council.
Paul Blanchard, Chaucer Lane, York.
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