Independent MP Bob Katter has issued a stinging rebuke of the Australian Senate chief after she proposed removing the Lord’s Prayer from parliamentary proceedings.
It comes after the new Senate President Sue Lines said that as an atheist, she did not want to say the prayer, which has been read prior to each sitting day since 1901.
“If we are genuine about the diversity of the Parliament, we cannot continue to say a Christian prayer to open the day,” she told The Australian newspaper.
“Personally, I would like to see them gone, but again it’s not something I can ­decree. It’s a view of the Senate,” she said, adding that removing the prayer would be “on the agenda” for the Senate Standing Committee on Procedure….