The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.
VOA: special.2010.03.05
Citizens Advice is urging peers to makeanamendment that would protect mentally ill people who had taken on debt.
Conservative and former lord chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern, who has commented on the legal status of the health secretary throughout the bill's time in the Lords, previously tabled anamendment to make the minister "ultimately responsible to Parliament".
One can only speculate why Republicans went along with this and why no Republican has been willing to take the uncensored report--members of Congress are allowed to read it--and enter it into the Congressional Record or in some way make it public, such as through anamendment or formal legislation.