BHA’s Naomi Phillips on equality and the Pope, BBC World Service
The BBC World Service discusses the Pope’s comments on UK equalities legislation. Naomi Phillips, Head of Public Affairs at the BHA, insists: “Discrimination is discrimination whether it is religious motivated or not.”
You can listen again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/02/100202_pope_row.shtml
Discrimination is the ability to tell bleach from drinking water. You do not use the word correctly. I assume you all buy into the tolerance and diversity pastiche. Well, let the Theists have their opinions. After all, everything a man believes is of equal value and worth as that which another believes. Surely? If not, from where do you draw your certainties of life? And whilst you support the State, I suspect you will be anti slavery but pro abortion yet under the old laws when slavery was sanctioned by the State, are you saying you would not have opposed it? The State or States across the globe and throughout history have been responsible for the deaths of over 300 million human beings. In comparison, the religious deaths pale into insignificance. The State laws are often derived from minority groups who most certainly discriminate and demand not equal rights but special rights. I am not saying humanists are immoral, simply curious as to how you reach a conclusion as to what is good or beneficial for society viz a viz legislation. Shall we not protest wicked laws?