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UK: Parliament?s Equality Bill

By Alliance Alert

Edward T. Oakes writing at First Things, On the Square: "I am prompted to make these (what I hope are) commonsensical observations because of a controversy stirred up the past week by some remarks made by Pope Benedict to the bishops of England during their recent ad limina visit to Rome. In the course of his address, the pope complained of 'unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance to their beliefs.' This sentence was widely and correctly seen as an attack on an amendment to the Equality Bill now working its way through Parliament, which would forbid any employer, including religious bodies, from discrimination in hiring based on sexual orientation."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).