Northern Ireland's new 'equalities' minister wants to legalise discrimination against gays

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/26/northern-irelands-new-equalities-minister-wants-to-legalise-discrimination-against-gays/

Pink News/By Nick Duffy  26th May 2016, 1:05 PM

"A Northern Irish politician who called for a 'conscience' law to allow Christians to discriminate based on sexuality has been handed the country's equalities brief.
Democratic Unionist Party politician Paul Givan was appointed as Minister for Communities today – a brief that includes "policy responsibility for gender and sexual orientation".
The news is surprising... given that in 2014 Mr Givan proposed a law that would have legalised discrimination based on sexuality.
The MLA tabled a 'conscience' bill in the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2014 that would exempt people with 'strongly held' religious convictions from equality laws – allowing them to discriminate against gay people on the grounds of religion."

This is so stupid.  There are certain of those in another religious group that believe the have a divine mandate to kidnap women to be sex slaves.  Are they going to allow that too?  Or is it just their particular group that is allowed to have sincerely held religious beliefs?


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