Discrimination Directive Will Discriminate
Can the Commission please clarify the constraints on the proposed discrimination directive, and how it will be enforced and policed?
Will men have to pay to use public toilets just because women more often have to pay?
How will religious harassment be avoided? What will stop Muslims demanding equality with Anglican Christianity, despite the latter being the established religion of the UK? What will happen when non-believers want Bibles removed from hospitals and hotel bedrooms? Will schools be free to hold traditional assemblies each morning if they wish? Will Christmas been banned as discriminatory? If not, why not?
Will people who oppose homosexuality, same-sex legal relationships and abortion be prevented from expressing their views? If not, how are their legitimate interests to be protected?
If a Christian architect refuses to design a mosque, a care home refuses a place to a homosexual, a teacher refers to a passage in the Bible to a mixed-race class, how will they all be protected?
Is not the directive rushing headlong into the political law of unintended consequences? Whilst it claims to protect one group of so-called â?~victimsâ?T, is it not simultaneously creating another group of victims? If not, how is that to be avoided?
How will the directive protect the supreme right to free speech?
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
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