Dispensation: An exemption or release from an obligation or rule, granted by or as if by an authority.
U.K. Government phrasebook tries to avoid upsetting Christians. The document warns that civil servants, police forces and local councils should abandon "aggressive rhetoric". A more productive approach is to stress the idea of shared values, it suggests.Uh....muslims?
But Tory MP and security expert Patrick Mercer said to the Daily Express: "It is no help to strike out words like 'Christian'. What else do we call these people?"
