The Labour Government’s Equality Bill, announced yesterday in the
Queen’s speech, will actively discriminate against all white people in
business and put large companies under a legal obligation to employ
Asians or blacks rather than whites.
The Catholic Church has also warned that other clauses could lead to
public displays of Christmas being banned as offensive to other
religions. The Equality Bill was one of a set of 13 bills and two
draft bills mapped out in the brief opening of Parliament yesterday.
In terms of the Equality Act, companies will be “encouraged” to favour
black and Asian candidates over white people when recruiting. In
addition, where companies have a choice between equally qualified men
and women, they are obliged to employ the woman.
To enforce compliance with that provision, the Equality Act will also
order companies with more than 250 employees to have “gender pay
audits.”
In effect this means that any company which does not actively
discriminate against white males will be in contravention of the
“gender pay audit” section of the act. In effect it means that any
large company must discriminate against whites in order to comply with
the law.
Meanwhile, Roman Catholic bishops have warned that Christmas
celebrations could be banned under the Equality Act as well.
General secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Andrew
Summersgill, was quoted in the media saying that the bill will “fuel
Britain’s risk-averse culture.”
He said the law will have the “chilling effect” of making local
authorities halt Christmas celebrations out a fear of “offending other
cultures.”
Mr Summersgill said there had already been a number of cases where
councils had banned Christmas decorations. Oxford City Council had
renamed its famous Christmas festival as the “Winter Light Festival”
to make it more inclusive.
“Under existing legislation, we have seen the development of a risk-
averse culture with outcomes as ridiculous as reports of a local
authority instructing tenants to take down Christmas lights in case
they might offend Muslim neighbours, or of authorities removing the
word Christmas out of cultural sensitivity to everyone except
Christians,” Mr Summersgill wrote in a letter to MPs.
“If this Bill is serious about equality, everything possible must be
done to avoid it having a chilling effect on religious expression and
practice.”
Senior Catholics have also complained that religious groups will be
forced to accept homosexual youth workers, secretaries and other staff
even if their faith holds same-sex relationships to be sinful.
The letter continued: “The Catholic Church has significant concerns
about the practical implications of some parts of the Bill.”
* Another bill announced in the Queen’s speech is one which would
supposedly crack down upon the financial services sector to prevent a
debacle of the sort seen over the last few years.
Apart from the fact that this is very much a case of trying to close
the stable door after the horse has bolted, this move is clearly an
attempt to divert attention away from the fact that the Labour
government has bailed out the banking sector to the tune of an
estimated £150 billion or more over the last year and a half.
* It is unlikely that Parliament will be able to complete this
proposed legislative schedule before the end of the lifespan of the
current assembly. It can therefore be presumed that the Equality Act
will receive priority.
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