"Secular Fundamentalists" are the problem says bishop

From National Secular Society Newsline, 4 February 2005:

The Bishop of Exeter, Michael Langrish, says that "secular fundamentalists" are driving religion from the public square. Speaking at a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Plymouth last week, he said that 'pluriformity' was under attack by a "particularly pernicious form of fundamentalism". Not all fundamentalists are religious he said, arguing that one of the most persistent and dominant forms in society was "extreme secularism".

Keith Porteous Wood of the National Secular Society said: "Mr Langrish seems to be lamenting the fact that other people besides the religious now have a voice in society. What he appears to be saying is that religion must dominate the public square and all other opinions must be subservient to it. If people want to send out non-religious greetings cards and find more interesting things to do than go to church, then they shouldn't be castigated for it. Mr Langrish is going to have to take his place amid the rough and tumble of life instead of imagining that the Church can still lord it over everybody."