Specifically, the church. They are worried that their "rights" will be ignored if they can no longer be bigoted homophobes.
Those who want to continue to be twats (including the 5th highest ranking Anglican) are asking for a "conscience clause" that would allow people to continue to discriminate if it's what they believed***
My views on the legislation were summed up nicely by one of it's proponents:
“While the Equality Bill maintains everyone's right to express in a legitimate manner both religious and non-religious beliefs, it is only right that people employed by commercial and publicly funded organisations are not allowed to discriminate on any grounds, no matter what their private belief.”They're still allowed to hire and fire as the fuckwits want at churches etc. but no, they want to be able to discriminate in the wider public as well.
Well no. Your rights end where other's begins and you don't get to go around oppressing minorities just because you believe it, no matter how firmly. Your beliefs don't render you immune to decent society and it's laws.
It makes me so mad. All of it. The fact such bigots exist. The fact that they want exception to the law so they can continue their bigotry.
Please, GTFO my country
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*amongst others, but it's the gays which are causing the problem so it's those I'll be using as an example
**and not the free-speech eroding 'hate speech' legislation I don't like, but proper, "you can't fire somebody because they are gay" legislation
***which would be the people who discriminate in the first place rendering the bill pointless.
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