Forgive me Father for I Have Sinned

That’s the line that each and every Lord who rejected government amendments to the Equality Bill yesterday should be repeating time and time again.
For once, there was a real chance to bring religions slap-bang into the twenty-first century by creating a legal requirement for them to treat most applicants for jobs equally (OK, so that’s not full equality but it’s a step in the right direction…). According to the BBC, religious organisations can, “reject candidates for particular roles on grounds such as gender, marital status and sexual orientation”.






