A city council in the UK has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism.
The Birmingham City Council has established rules that prevent its staff from visiting websites promoting atheism, witchcraft, Satanism, the occult, sexual deviancy, and criminal activity.
Under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, it is unlawful to discriminate against workers because of their religion or belief, which includes atheism.
The National Secular Society is currently seeking to get the rule changed, otherwise they will pursue legal action.
Why atheism is lumped in with sexual deviancy and criminal activity, I don't understand. Assuming that atheists are immoral, criminal, sexual deviants, is ridiculous, but nothing new.
And while these people should probably be working instead of surfing the net, this is clearly a violation of atheists' (and Wiccans') rights as staff are still allowed to visit sites relating to Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and other religions. They either need to limit access to all religious sites, or stop including atheism and wicca in their definition of criminal and deviant activities.
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They either need to limit access to all religious sites, or stop including atheism and wicca in their definition of criminal and deviant activities.
Agreed. How do these kind of laws and policies even get passed these days??
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