“Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the head of Catholics in England and Wales … was supported by the Church of England and the Muslim Council of Britain. It was a formidable coalition. But it failed … Now the Cardinal accuses ministers of trying to impose a ‘new morality’ in Britain. If this new morality means it will henceforth be impossible for religious groups to discriminate against people simply because they happen to be homosexual, we fail to see the problem with that.”

Religion should not be allowed to discriminate against people. Why do religions think they have some kind of special right to preach hate? The Independent opinion is here.

Posted Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 @ 7:09 pm
Filed in human rights, politics

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