{"id":1171,"date":"2010-05-05T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:32:33","slug":"department-of-oh-get-over-yourself-you-big-tart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/department-of-oh-get-over-yourself-you-big-tart\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Oh Get Over Yourself You Big Tart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/devon\/8659479.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the Beeb:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A legal battle has begun in an attempt to stop prayers being said before a Devon council&#8217;s meetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The National Secular Society (NSS) is seeking a judicial review over whether prayers said at Bideford Town Council breach human rights legislation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No. They don&#8217;t. Legislation, maybe, that being a purely artificial construct. Human rights, no.<\/p>\n<p>The regime currently ruling Burma\/Myanmar breaches human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban breach human rights.<\/p>\n<p>A town council that has voted, twice, to keep the prayers before its meetings start isnot\u00a0breaching human rights. You don&#8217;t like it, turn up to meetings five minutes late. Or mutter &#8220;arse&#8221; when everyone mutters &#8220;amen&#8221;. Or whatever. Exercise your own human rights in response. But stop whining when a democratic vote offends you.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m in full Tunbridge Wells mode,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/7676870\/Teenagers-low-trouser-ban-breaches-his-human-rights-court-told.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling a teenager to pull his trousers up<\/a>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t breach his human rights either. I&#8217;m reasonably certain my right not to have a human backside thrust into my face takes priority.<\/p>\n<p>End of rant. Resume your lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Beeb: &#8220;A legal battle has begun in an attempt to stop prayers being said before a Devon council&#8217;s meetings. The National Secular Society (NSS) is seeking a judicial review over whether prayers said at Bideford Town Council breach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/department-of-oh-get-over-yourself-you-big-tart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[171,145],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-human-rights","tag-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}