[MGR1]

I would rather a secular country that does not favour any one religion, rather than one where a particular faith is embedded within the governing framework. The presence of representatives of the Church of England in the Lords has always generated suspicion in Scotland due to the fact that the Church of Scotland has never been a state church by it's own volition so as to preserve it's own freedon of belief and worship.

Having written that, I will freely admit I detest the Kirk and it's various splinter denominations due to the corrosive effect they've had on Scottish society ever since the 16th-17th century. It has to be acknowledged that almost everything an Englishman doesn't like about Scotland can be traced to the Kirk and it's humourless, hypocritical, bigoted, Calvinist Presbyterian ideology.

Mike.