Religious in-discrimination

I always thought this was a BBC interlude. Turns out, it's a call to prayer.

Mark Steyn wades into the morass of a recent British court rulings that declares support for public broadcasting and belief in global warming to be religions deserving of more protection than Christianity gets in Britain.

Mr. Blair’s ministry introduced the “religious discrimination” law in 2003. Given that, with the exception of its many firebreathing imams, post-Christian Britain is a land without faith, it was entirely predictable that the law would wind up protecting the anything they do believe in.
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If you look at these decisions in toto — from “climate change” to “public service broadcasting” — we are about two judges away from having the entire program of leftist conventional wisdom ruled a state church. 

I'd call this the law of unexpected consequences except that this is exactly what anyone with a grasp of logic and the left-wing mindset would see happen.

I recall back in the '80s watching a comedy programme where they had a sight gag showing a clutch of BBC executives kneeling in worship before a candle-lit shrine to Terry Woggin.  It now look as though that wasn't so much a joke as a prediction.

Update: Cranmer neatly sums up the situation.