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As some may know, the various Equalities Acts in the UK that deal with discrimination on grounds of sex, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, race, disability are all slightly different, and have rather different areas of exclusion.
There is a proposal to replace all of these Acts with a "Single Equalities Bill". The Westminster Government has just opened consultation on this proposal, under the title "A Framework for Fairness" If anyone in the UK is interested, the full consultation paper, a summary, and an "easy-read" version, are available from http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1511245 .
The summary says "Matters of equality should be of interest to a wide range of people: employers and service providers in the public, private and voluntary sectors; and employees and members of the public who are customers for goods and services or who make use of public or private sector facilities. The Government is keen to encourage responses to the consultation from all those interested."
"Political correctness gone mad?"
This is chance for everyone to put their views in a dispassionate and coherent fashion. I'd urge UK residents to participate, even - or perhaps especially - if they feel that there is too much "political correctness gone mad" in the field of equalities at present: this consultation represents an excellent chance to build a stable consensus approach to dealing with some of the real equalities issues that remain in the UK.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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