(October 22, 2014 at 4:38 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:(October 22, 2014 at 4:27 pm)lifesagift Wrote: Well maybe time to form a pressure group to oppose religious imposition... e.g. halal meat, church bells, or more importantly the oncoming shariah!!
All covered by secularism and the B/NSS, in my experience.
Issue is that halal (and Kosher) meat is now a legislative exemption, so it'd require more than a pressure group but an active political lobbying campaign. And nothing will happen because the UK Govt would never upset the apple cart on anything Islam related, wrongly in my opinion.
The UK is in a curious position with regards to secularism because, on the one hand, it's an increasingly non-religious society that pays nothing more than lip service to the religious institutions of old. On the other, we have a massive faith school sector that is funded almost entirely by the state, and those very same religious institutions are still really prevalent in every day political decision making (Lords spiritual).
as secularists I think if we concentrated on these key issues things like Halal would come under the firing line more and more. Currently the massive and overwhelming popular opinion against them has little effect on government policy.
What do you think we should do then?
