abstract:Terry Sanderson (born 1946) is a leading UK secularist and gay rights activist, author and journalist. He became president of the National Secular Society in 2006 and is a long-standing columnist for Gay Times.
TerrySanderson, president of the National Secular Society, says the fall in the number of Christians showed a "huge upheaval" in attitudes towards religion.
But TerrySanderson, president of the National Secular Society, accused Mr Pickles - who cited recent action to allow councils to hold prayers at the start of meetings in the wake of a High Court ruling - of trying to restore "sectarianism".