Human Rights
I said I would only post on Saturdays, but this one made my blood boil.
Christians in Britain (not all of them I know, so don't get shirty, I'm not in the mood) are campaigning for a change in the law. At the moment if a Christian owns a hotel they are breaking the law if they tell a gay couple that they cannot have a room. They claim it is in violation of their human rights because homosexuality is offensive to their beliefs. Because it goes against a belief that cannot be scientifically substantiated (after all, that's why we call it a belief), they believe they should have the right to discriminate against them.
Well, just a second. I know people (not friends) who BELIEVE that anyone of non-white origin should be "shipped back to where they came from." Should they be allowed to discriminate and refuse accomodation to anyone who is not Anglo-Saxon?
I know people who are offended by disability. Should they be allowed to push the wheelchair users back out through the (stepped) entrance?
The "Bishop" on the radio talked about moral offence. He stated that if a prostitute and a client asked for a room, the owner would have the right to turn them away and the same should therefore apply to gay couples. Hello! Prostitution is illegal in this country, that's why you turn them away. Being gay is not. And when it comes to "morals" some gay couples are now "married". They have entered into civil partnership, something many heterosexual, adulterous couples signing in under false names have not.
In this day and age you cannot discriminate against anyone, and to defend your discrimination by citing some kind of moral principals simply uncovers religion for what it is; an excuse for institutionalised racism, xenophobia and bigotry.