It looks as if the bishops have won their fight against the equality bill. Two papers are reporting that Harriet Harman will not bring back to the commons the clause that the House of Lords struck out which appeared to narrow the definition of jobs which would be exempt from the equality legislation. So the bill, if it passes at all before the election, will not change the present law at all in that area.
Reading at least some of the hundreds of comments about all this on the site here, one possibly original thought did occur to me: one of the main secularist lines here is that the churches are entitled to their views, but not to any public money or support. How many of the people who say that would also argue for the public funding of political parties?
