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"If the make up is to democratically reflect census figures then if there are, say, 20, it should go approximatelysomething like this:-
14 christians
5 non religious
half a muslim and an assortment of various midgets"
Well you can't have half a Muslim can you.
The smallest group possible would need at least one to represent scientology or kabbalah.
This means the advisory panel is going to number well into the thousands, of which - going by the last census - some hundreds are going to be klingons, wiccans or Jedi.
The meetings are going to have something of the atmosphere of the bar in Star Wars.
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