Town Council being bullied into changing centuries-old tradition

[Beskar]

Alright, I am going to be really blunt here, so people can actually sink this in:

Who cares about a Christian, Atheist or Hindu judge, just as long they actually follow the law as it was intended to the letter and pass a sentence which is follows our principles of justice?

Same for the Town Council, why should we care if the councillor is Christian, Atheist, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Pastafarian, just as long as they do their job in the way they are expected to do it.

This isn't about what the faith of the councillors are, and this argument should not be reduced to that level. It is just a simple fact that while on the job, you do your job, you don't search amazon/ebay on the computers, you don't hold mass on the tax-payers expense, insert random-information here.

If a councillor wants to pray privately on their own time, or even go "I believe this is the moral action to do", good on them, they can do that and no one has a issue with it.

It raises up another point, PVC, are you simply attacking the "athiest" for being an atheist? What about if it was a Muslim, Hindu or another faith? It is pretty low of you if you are doing it simply because they are atheist.

As for the force-council mass, no one should have to leave the room, simply because some people want to pray at the start of the meeting. They can do it in their own time. I don't really care what they are doing, but I am not paying for people to do a private activity and not doing their job. When I am in Tesco, I don't want to listen to a sermon from a cashier, I want to have my grocerys dinged and pay for service. If the councillors organised a pre-meeting ebay hunt, I wouldn't be amused either.

Also, what is to stop the councillors from meeting up before or after work to pray?