Outraged by the protests by religious groups outside Parliament yesterday objecting to the Sexual Orientation Regulations that outlaw businesses from discriminating against homosexuals, I very nearly posted my views here. I'm glad I didn't, because I couldn't possibly have made my point more eloquently than this excellent article by Professor A C Grayling in Guardian Unlimited. I particularly like the penultimate sentence, which echoes what I have said here before:Wonderful stuff.Let people believe in fairies if they wish to: I would fight as hard to protect the right of the benighted to the stupidest beliefs as to protect the right of gays to equal treatment in all respects; but the condition is that they do not impose those beliefs on others, or the antediluvian morality that goes with it.
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