Religious discrimination is prohibited, the logic goes, and the views in the case at hand were intense enough to count as akin to religion. Critics are said to fear a “flood of litigation” on behalf of other workers whose strongly held beliefs bring them into conflict with co-workers or employers. [Guardian]
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Well, a lot of people have noticed that the environmental movement has sounded like a religion for quite some time now. They cherry pick scientific data and statements that support their “beliefs”, and spin the rest. There are also signs that Christian groups are moving in the same direction, as the message of sin and salvation rings sympathetically.
Finally, public recognition that global warming is a religion. Just like Cretonism, it too had to change its name (global warming to climate change, creationism to creation science). Now that we’ve acknowledged what it is, we can strive to keep it out of schools.