""I'm beginning to get heartily sick of 'what is socially acceptable' because, in the extreme, we are getting legislation backing up a minority view of the world.""

Wrong mate!! What we are getting is legislation backing up the views of the majority as to how we should treat minorities, views moreover which are mainly popposed by a minority who happen to be xenophobes.

That is the fact which blows your comment about minority legislation to hell, since that minority is rightly ignored by legislators.

Well you did invite us to jump in, though we don't have to listen to your views either.

Don T.