Question: when is reciting The Lord’s Prayer a criminal activity?

When someone is offended by it, of course. In this case, Peter Ferguson who believes it violates his right to freedom of irreligion when said at the beginning of council meetings.

Peter Ferguson seems to think he has been called to a vocation of sustained whining, so, to help him overcome this affliction, the council should read an entire chapter of the New Testament as well.

From here:

A one-man battle to stop a southern Ontario county from reciting the Lord’s Prayer before council meetings is heating up once again.

Peter Ferguson has been trying since last March to convince Grey County council, north of Toronto, to “obey the law” and abandon the prayer, and will be repeating the plea when a new council sits in February.

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“I find that so laughable. So what if I’m the only person?” Ferguson said. “I believe in the rule of law and I can’t believe that I have 18 councillors and one MPP sitting around saying we just make the laws, we don’t enforce them. They are criminals and I don’t think that word can be repeated often enough.”

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