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I can understand that some people may feel that Judges who want to attend religious services should do so in their own time, given that the courts are increasingly overwhelmed with cases and waiting times are too long. However, I join the many who've expressed bafflement as to how Judges' participation in such services or public expression of faith could be detrimental to the administration of justice. If adherence to the Christian faith could cause a Judge to be suspected of bias, then how do you square that (I use the term carefully) with the fact that Judges, police officers and many other public officials are allowed to be Freemasons, taking an oath which is in conflict with yet is expressed to take precedence over their public duties. I've never heard a client or another solicitor express worries about appearing before a Christian or Muslim District Judge, but I've heard (and secretly shared) clients' and other solicitors' worries about potential bias by Freemasons. Is this "stop religious services" story a distraction from a genuine danger?

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