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Originally Posted by jimbuna
I know nothing of Scandinavian law, but in the UK discrimination can be judged to have taken place on many grounds eg: sex, colour, age, disability, religious belief etc. etc.
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The greatest threat to secularism is when religions start to demand that voicing critical opinion about them should be forbidden and should be seen as a hate crime. The Catholic church has become very loud in the past months to warn against secularism. Islamic organisation push a legal effort in several european countries and on EU level to make any critical comment on Islam an offence for which they can sue the offender.
We will soon have laws in Europe putting critical sentiments towards the EU under penalty. In practice, politicians already behave as if people's opinions must not be their concern anyway, as we can see regarding politician's conspiracy to install the EU constitution against the will of a solid majority of the european people, no matter the cost.
Two things are sure, though. I will never let myself get forced to give political or social support I do not wish to give, neither in elections, nor in practical acts of accepting policies I do not accept and do not even tolerate. and I will never allow some tyrannic polit-zombies to decide in my place whom I have to like and have to deal with and have to invite, and whom not.
The responsibility for my decisions can be left safely to where it belongs - to me.