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Thank you, Paul,
I hadn't heard about that. I do hope Lillian Ladele loses her case. Where the civil law takes a stand then religion ought not to be an excuse not to follow what the law says.
But it does raise an interesting question about the place of religion in people's working life.
For example Tony Blair was a sort of 'closet' Catholic but did not carry it to the point of abolishing birth control clinics or repealing the laws allowing and controlling the circumstances for abortion.
But I would worry about having Roman Catholic doctors and nurses looking after a daughter who was having a difficult birth as their religion requires them to sacrifice the mother to save the child and I think that is the wrong way round.
I think that if someone's work practices are affected in this way by their religion then they should be required to say so and make their religion public knowledge.
For example, at the school where my daughter teaches, the biology teacher is a fundamentalist and cannot accept evolution! So that part of the biology syllabus is taught by the physics teacher! At least that situation is in the open.
But what about the many where it isn't?
Love,
Anthony
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