Debbie Kean

They are also refusing outright to understand what it is to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, transgender and so on – it is to know one’s sexuality, which is a large and inescapable part of the self.

Why homosexuality singularly fuels so many prejudices is beyond me. I suppose it is like ethnicity, which again is not acquired by choice, but by intangible, uncontrollable factors. What confuses me even more is that those who profess to be ethically pure thanks to their religion a) continue to think like ignorant schoolchildren, and b) think that their gods – if any exist and are worth belief in – will appreciate a life structured around dogma and bigotry more than one driven by one of their few useful proverbs: “know thyself”.

There is no love lost between these hypocrites and human thought, and so it saddens me to here, therefore, that a democratic country’s judicial system has ruled in favour of one of said narrow-minded sheeple.

Seriously, this is disgrace - religion is being used to justify bigotry against people who should enjoy the same rights as everyone else. And the end result will not be good for religion, as it creates a two-tier society. Ordinary, secular Brits (the vast majority) will be less inclined to involve themselves with overtly religious types for fear that they’ll get ‘done’ for some imagined discrimination.

So, well done Little Miss Bigot, you’ve made Christians less popular.

Would their rights be respected? Of course not. They’d be told to put their personal feelings asside and do their job. But because this woman’s predudices are religiously motivated, we have to go along with them.

If we really believe in equality before the law, that means respecting people who have sincerely held religious beliefs [...]. The witch hunt against those who disagree with [the power of faith] has to stop.

If your religion restricts your from carrying out the responsibilities demanded by your employment … find another job.

If she was not allowed by law to refuse to marry gay couples, then she committed an offence for which she should have been punished in whatever way reasonable.

Separate state, work and the public sphere from religion will you?

If your religion comes in the way of any work you do you have two choices leave the job or the religion, but stop holding the public to ransom over your delusions.