Clegg and the Oath

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Sir - Nick Clegg, the new Lib-Dem leader, should be congratulated for having the honesty to reveal that he does not believe in God. But surely, if he is an honest man, that revelation means he should now repudiate the Oath of Allegiance that all MPs are forced to take, whether they support the monarchy or not, when they enter Parliament.

That oath is rooted in the notion, which I believe to be stupid nonsense, that the sovereign is specifically ordained by God to rule over us. That is all that the monarchy is based upon.

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