Get a life, for godless sake

Whoever is in charge of the The National Secular Society really should get out more.

It seems they have reported The Scout Association to the Equality and Human Rights Commission for refusing to take To do my duty to God out of the pledge made by new scouts since Baden Powell first donned his woggle a hundred years or so ago.

It forces non-believers to lie apparently although I suspect you would be hard pressed to find any teenager who has lost a nanosecond's sleep over it.

Ignoring the fact that most scout troops are attached to churches with church parade a regular feature, if the NSS really do have concerns about a youth movement for non-believers they could always get up off their backsides and start their own with whatever pledge they like, I am sure no one will stop them.

Otherwise we might just start to think they are much happier sitting on a high horse meddling with something that really has nothing to do with them in the hope of a bit of cheap publicity.