Barmy!
THE future of church civic services are under threat for fear they might offend Macclesfield’s handful of ethnic minority groups. They could be axed in favour of political correctness even though there has not been one single official complaint.
Bollington councillors are to vote on whether their annual gathering should be held elsewhere in the community instead of on consecrated ground. If the vote is carried it will mean a break with a tradition which dates back hundreds of years.
Deputy Mayor Shirley Socket claims that the annual solemn ritual with all its pomp and circumstance should be banned from churches because it could offend the ethnic minority! And she wants to rewrite the history books by changing an ancient standing order which decrees it should be held in a church. She has also pledged that if she is elected mayor next year she will swap St Oswald’s which only seats 30 people and hold her formal ceremony in the Civic Hall which holds a healthier 200.
Currently local councils – parish and the borough – traditionally hold their soirees in local churches.
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http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/index/articles/article_id=3040.html
Once again...attemting to fix something that isn't broken....
