{"id":1727,"date":"2009-01-05T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2009-01-05T00:04:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:04:50","slug":"parking-your-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/parking-your-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking your discrimination."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/4108946\/Free-parking-for-churchgoers-not-fair-to-other-faiths.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tewkesbury Borough Council in Gloucestershire is considering scrapping charges for churchgoers throughout its car parks on Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Brian Calway, a Conservative who represents Prior&#8217;s Park, chaired a working group of six, tasked with reviewing the town&#8217;s parking strategy.<\/p>\n<p>But a majority of the team writing the preliminary report felt the idea should not become policy as it could be viewed as unfair to other faiths.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Mike Collins, who spoke against the scheme, worried it would be perceived as discriminatory in &#8220;the modern PC world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Collins said yesterday: &#8220;When the word Christian was used and Sunday worship, I felt that my view was there were many people around Tewkesbury who are not Christian these days. I&#8217;m not the most PC person but to single out one section would be discriminatory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see the problem. Christianity is true and other religions aren&#8217;t. Any sane person would discriminate on the side of what is true and if those who are immersed in error become offended, suggest they abandon their error. In fact, I think Christians should have free parking all the time and atheists not be allowed to park anywhere until free parking lots spontaneously evolve on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Tewkesbury Borough Council in Gloucestershire is considering scrapping charges for churchgoers throughout its car parks on Sunday mornings. Mayor Brian Calway, a Conservative who represents Prior&#8217;s Park, chaired a working group of six, tasked with reviewing the town&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/parking-your-discrimination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}