Word, Ms Harriet Harman

[greenie_breizh]

"You can either be against discrimination or you can allow for it. You can't be a little bit against discrimination."

- UK Constitutional Affairs Minister Harriet Harman


The UK (well, the government) is struggling to decide whether or not Catholic adoption agencies should be exempt from following anti-discrimination legislation, and therefore still be allowed to reject same-sex couple applying to adopt a child.

'No Catholic opt-out' on adoption
Cabinet rejects exemption on gay adoptions

If the Cabinet goes decide against exemption, I feel like it'll be a step forward almost as important as the Civil Partnership law. Discrimination cannot be condoned just because you think your religion tells you it's okay to look down upon a certain portion of the population (that has done nothing wrong). We went over this with racial discrimination already, for Joss's sake.

Comments

[themegs.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's really shitty. You guys are definitely ahead on the same-sex unions, so I suppose it takes a few steps at a time. It just boggles my mind that it's an issue at all. Falling in love, getting married, raising a family are the most natural things in the world.