Re: Phil and the laundry/spoiler 9th June

Siderius Nuncius wrote:
"Plusnet" <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote
dontusethisaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

What I can't understand is how the Church gets exemption from equal-opps
legislation on sex discrimination. I also fail to understand why "faith"
schools are allowed or even encouraged to select on the basis of
religious beliefs, whereas when these same young people move on to
employment, it's illegal in most jobs to discriminate on the grounds of
religion.

I assume that when the legislation was being drafted, the draftees
decided to avoid getting into a barney with organised religion because
it has lots of friends who would try to scupper the whole bill.

Possibly. But Grammar Schools are allowed to refuse you because you're not bright, and Public Schools because you're not rich. I do wonder whether allowing this while outlawing schools who refuse pupils because they don't subscribe to a particular ethical system might be legally rather tricky.

Even Woolies can discriminate against you on the grounds that you don't have enough dosh for a quarter of Pic'n'Mix, so I don't think that's illegal.

BTW, what has happened to the Iced Caramel? I rarely go into Woolies these days, but when I do I take the chance to buy some Iced Caramels, which are a taste of my childhood and which appear nowhere but in Woolies' Pic'n'Mix. However, they seem to have disappeared. Woe is me!

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David
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