Should legal exemptions exist under religious belief grounds?
UK law provides targeted religious exemptions in the Equality Act 2010 for organisations whose main purpose relates to religion or belief, allowing restrictions on membership, services or activities to avoid conflicting with doctrines or offending followers on grounds of religion or sexual orientation. Similar provisions cover occupational requirements for organised religion and limited conscientious objections. Recent debates question these in areas such as knife-carrying laws justified on religious grounds, collective worship in schools, and whether non-religious beliefs should receive equivalent treatment.
1 Opinion
Everyone should be equal in the eye of the law, having exemptions (for religion) is perverse.