Is Veganism a Religion?

[chanel]

VEGANS and teetotallers are to be given the same protection against discrimination as religious groups, under legislation championed by Harriet Harman, the equalities minister.

Members of cults and “new religions” such as Scientology, whose supporters include the film stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta, would also be offered protection, as would atheists.

The watchdog also warns that advertisements giving preferential treatment to men or women could be illegal. This could mean the end of “ladies’ nights” at clubs, when women receive cut-price drinks or free entrance but men pay full price.

People for whom abstention from alcohol was a way of life would also be protected. Conversely, the bill would make it unlawful for a shopkeeper to refuse to sell cigarettes to a woman because she was pregnant.

Don’t mock my lentils: vegans to get discrimination rights - Times Online


Dat's some crazy stuff....

 

[amrchaos]

We atheists don't need your pathetic "protection"!!

We atheists want the rights afforded to us as humans. Let the cry babies whine for "protection"!!

 

[Neser Boha]

VEGANS and teetotallers are to be given the same protection against discrimination as religious groups, under legislation championed by Harriet Harman, the equalities minister.

Members of cults and “new religions” such as Scientology, whose supporters include the film stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta, would also be offered protection, as would atheists.

The watchdog also warns that advertisements giving preferential treatment to men or women could be illegal. This could mean the end of “ladies’ nights” at clubs, when women receive cut-price drinks or free entrance but men pay full price.

People for whom abstention from alcohol was a way of life would also be protected. Conversely, the bill would make it unlawful for a shopkeeper to refuse to sell cigarettes to a woman because she was pregnant.

Don’t mock my lentils: vegans to get discrimination rights - Times Online


Dat's some crazy stuff....

That is beyond retarded.

 

[xotoxi]

So, if everyone in any group for any reason gets special protection from descrimination, doesn't that just bring us all back to square one...just with stiffer penalities for being nasty?

 

[del]

they can have my tofu when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers

 

[uscitizen]

Tofu, bleah!

 

[Neser Boha]

What's up with all these high-strung idiots that seek more and more legal protection while diminishing the rest of the population's right to express their views? It's starting to get on my nerves ... but then what doesn't. Where's the old 'live and let live' ... ?