the case itself is fairly trivial, but I was interested by this (High Court) ruling:
Lord Justice Laws said legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious grounds cannot be justified.
Important precedent?
Important precedent?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8651417.stm
the case itself is fairly trivial, but I was interested by this (High Court) ruling:
the case itself is fairly trivial, but I was interested by this (High Court) ruling:
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can. And then when they come back, they can
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Re: Important precedent?
Fucking wonderful stuff.Geoff wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8651417.stm
the case itself is fairly trivial, but I was interested by this (High Court) ruling:
Lord Justice Laws said legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious grounds cannot be justified.
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Re: Important precedent?
Very cool! Maybe one day such legislation will actually be considered here in the US...
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What a twat the man is. He apparently would have been happy to offer 'non-directive' counselling to gay people but not 'directive'. I.e. he was willing to listen but not suggest what they might do in bed to make the sex work.
Fuck off.
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Re: Important precedent?
Yeah. The thing is, they seem to think they have a "god-given right" to get their own way all the time. They're the only ones allowed to be "offended", and anything they say or do can't possibly offend anyone. Reminds me of that bus driver who refused to operate a bus with the atheist slogan on it - yet if an atheist refused to drive one with, say, an Alpha Course ad on it, they'd be the first to whinge about "free speech".Rum wrote:What a twat the man is. He apparently would have been happy to offer 'non-directive' counselling to gay people but not 'directive'. I.e. he was willing to listen but not suggest what they might do in bed to make the sex work.
Fuck off.
In any case, as I said, the case itself is fairly trivial, but we now have a High Court precedent ruling for any similar cases, which is definitely progress.
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Isn't the twat now appealing it - to some court in Europe?
So you are saying that the reason why God created the universe, including millions of years of human and animal suffering, and the extinction of most species, is so that at the end of all of that a select few humans could be with him forever. I see.
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He's probably a closet homo.mindyourmind wrote:Isn't the twat now appealing it - to some court in Europe?
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No one has a right to be a twat.
That position is already taken, anyway.
That position is already taken, anyway.
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Lord Justice Laws said legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious grounds cannot be justified.
He said it was irrational and "also divisive, capricious and arbitrary".
Beautifully put!
He said it was irrational and "also divisive, capricious and arbitrary".
Beautifully put!
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Re: Important precedent?
Interesting take on it in the Telegraph, though I think Judge Laws would argue that the climate change ruling was wrong and his ruling overrides it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... -Laws.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... -Laws.html
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