Bishops gone wild: special Equality Bill edition PLUS "Why men don't go to church"

[pw201]

As a toxic neo-atheist fundamentalist neo-rationalist sceptic, it was difficult to know what to hope for in all the kerfuffle about the Equality Bill: is it better that the government narrows the scope for discrimination against homosexuals by religious organisations, or better that the church publicly admits it's so important for it to

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[auntysarah]

ISTM this is a win on two fronts. It makes the church look like a bunch of nasty bigots, hopefully promoting a nice healthy sceptical attitude towards religion in society, and delays the egregious "equality" bill. With any luck, it'll now run out of time before the General Election.

Ta Bishies!

[pw201]

the egregious "equality" bill

What's bad about the Bill?

[auntysarah]

What's bad about the Bill?

It rolls back pretty much all the protections in law given to trans people over the last 30 years, and allows anyone with sex-segregated facilities (e.g. a restaurant with toilets) to refuse service/admission to anyone they believe to be trans if they have a good reason (which may include the fear that their other customers will be upset).

[woodpijn]

Eek. I'm vaguely surprised I haven't heard about that.

Do you mean refuse them admission to the restaurant completely, or refuse them admission to that toilet and make them use the other one? (I mean, I can see why both possibilities are bad, but I'm just curious which.)

Impressed

[anonymous]

There's a lot of worthy material to comment on (favourably) in this post, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to concentrate on your impressive use of the words antidisestablishmentarianism AND floccinaucinihilipilification (correctly) in the same sentence. Top notch!

Re: Impressed

[cartesiandaemon]

Oh wow, I didn't see that. Nice :)

It's only a shame you couldn't get "antitransubstantiationalist" in there as well, but it would have been a bit of a stretch, even if you just used it to mean "protestant" :)