In reply to marsbar:
> It seems to me that you are confusing promoting the outdoors to the religious types with promoting religion to the outdoor types.
> It would seem to be the former to me.
I'm not sure you can tell the difference.
It's the Content that's the difference.
The Conservative Christian Fellowship is currently organising a sponsored walk up Kili.
If one of their members were invited the content of the talk could vary between
Organising a Sponsored Walk in Africa
or
What Baby jesus Did For You
or
Why Michael Gove is the best thing ever.
If the BMC invited them to do a talk the first option is clearly different from the other two, which are partisan.
The BMC hasn't invited people to talk about religion before, that I know of, so this is a radical change in policy. As this is a contentious issue, rarely inclusive and more likely to be exclusive, the question So What? is just pretending there are no issues around how the policy is managed.
(If there is indeed a new policy, rather than some mess made up on the hoof).