News / Two more religious appointments
SHETLAND ISLANDS Council has appointed Angela Nunn of the Shetland Council of Churches Trust and Radina McKay of Shetland Inter Faith as religious representatives to its education and families committee.
They join retired Church of Scotland minister, the Reverend Tom Macintyre, who was appointed two months ago.
The appointment was fiercely opposed by Lerwick South member Jonathan Wills who said the law that requires the SIC to appoint three religious representatives to the committee was “undemocratic” and discriminatory against those not belonging to any religious group.
His motion to defer a decision and to meet with religious groups in the islands to find an alternative solution found only the support of Shetland West member Gary Robinson.
Dr Wills was told that the council had to abide by the law and had, as decided at an earlier meeting, been in “preliminary contact” with the local authority umbrella group CoSLA with the view to lobby the Scottish government to change the legislation.
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