My sentiments exactly. The salary cost of hospital chaplains to the NHS as of April 2009 was £32,014,475 for the year. That's salaries only.

In Northern Ireland the cost was £888,191.

Figures from the National Secular Society.

Equality again. In the interest of equality, about which the Caleb Foundation has very recently decided it cares so deeply, does it not think that these costs should be carried by the (often very rich) individual churches?