Disestablishment Urged In Britain

The Guardian reports today that the Fabian Society, a leading Labour think tank, has called for the Church of England's preferential status to end and for its bishops to the lose the right to sit in the House of Lords. In a book to be published next month titled "Islam, Race and Being British", Sunder Katwala, the society's general secretary, says that a fresh settlement is needed between religion and the state.