#thoughtfu

In a way, although I've literally realised it now, this book explores an issue I've been studying and struggling with in one of my modules at Uni.

Both freedom of religion and freedom of sexuality are human rights and we have laws to protect them, but what happens when two human rights go up against one another? This happened a while back in a case in the UK.I don't remember the specifics and I'm too lazy to look it up but the essentials are this: A B&B owner refused a homosexual couple a room unless they agreed to twin beds. Understandably, they took her to court. The won. Personally, I agree with the decision, but there must be myriad people who wouldn't.

The hard part is, there's no right answer.

In some ways, the preoccupation with 'Christian' values by characters throughout the book is hard for me to understand because I'm British and therefore have grown up and lived in a secular state. The very idea of what is (or is it?) a kind of custody case being coached in religious terms is alien. Not that I don't accept organised religion and think that it can have its place in life, I just don't believe that that place is in the law of a country, with the assumption that what is religious is good.There's a real sense of the uncriticality and hypocrisy that can occur in religion, but it's definitely not an attack on it.