Nice one Judge!

Council banned from saying prayers, says the headline.  Really?  Actually I thought the decision was a bit of a judgment of Solomon.  An atheist councillor had complained about the fact that council meetings all started with prayers and claimed that this discriminated against his beliefs - or rather lack of them.  The council maintained that this was a long-standing tradition which simply reflected the fact that this is a Christian country.  Cutting out all the legal verbiage, the judge decided that there was nothing to stop prayers being said provided that this was done before councillors were formally summoned to attend.  In other words, those who want to can, and those who don't want to don't have to.  Like I say - judgment of Solomon.