Equality Laws Curb Freedom Of Religious Groups. Really?

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pope Equality Laws Curb Freedom Of Religious Groups. Really? LONDON, Feb 04, (PRINTWORDS NEWS) Yet another jab at homosexuals. Another attempt to curb the freedom of a particular section of the society. And, most importantly, another look at the real picture. Even at an age that is defined by technological advancements and propaganda for free living and thinking, an age that is declares freedom and equality for all, there still larks darkness in human minds. Minds of those very people who promise to change the world.

The 600 page Equality Bill recently passed by the Labour government in Britain states that no one would be able to discriminate fellow human being according to certain characteristics. The Bill states nine such criteria, namely, discrimination against the basis of religion, belief, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, pregnancy and maternity, sex, and sexual preference. Good one, if you ask me. But looks rather too good to be true. Read actually implemented.

Pope Benedict XVl recently attacked the Equality law in the state that has been passed by the Labour government, on religious grounds. The hypocrisy of the matter comes through from the fact that while on the one hand, he condemned the new equality laws, on the other, he praised the same. While condemning the equality laws, he claimed that it would be forcing people to employ those with “unnatural” leanings, making a strong jab at homosexuals.

bill Equality Laws Curb Freedom Of Religious Groups. Really? By “unnatural leanings,” the Pope possibly meant those who are not “straight,” (sorry to have used this word, makes the others sound crooked, but that’s the nomenclature) that is, to use the Pope’s version, those who “violate natural law.” Keeping this in mind, he states, the Equality Bill would take away from religious groups their liberty to act in “accordance to their religious beliefs.”

In other words, it means that if you are not straight, and you approach an institution for a job, don’t be offended if you are turned away. For if the Pope is correct, the institution has every right to throw away your resume, simply because you don’t adhere to the regular norms of society, or those that the society believes is the norm.

What makes the thing all the more disgusting is the fact that the Pope did not merely express his views on the subject. He also expressly, and unabashedly, asked all his compatriots, the Catholic missionaries of the world, to attack the law with all the zeal they could muster. For, who doesn’t know, the Church condemns homosexuality.

The Pope might have forgotten that the Church condemns not only homosexuality, but sexuality in all its forms. For what else can you say about an institution, one of the oldest in the world, that dos not allow a married man or a woman to be a part of the priesthood? Only so-called celibates are allowed there.

The Pope, on the other hand, does seem pretty liberal when he praises the Equality Law, (barring the sexual orientation part of course) stating that it provides real equality to all classes of people. But hey, real equality does not exclude one’s freedom to choose whom he or she wants to sleep with, or marry.

And to be honest, the Pope need not lose sleep over the matter. For religious groups have always evaded such questions smartly. Those laws about equality, any kind, does not apply to them. For religion is above all law. Other than those formulated by themselves.