"There are millions of people who are not allowed to marry someone they love."

Yes, and if you had your way you would create millions more.

The daily act of worship is enforced in most schools (it's the law here), though it's illegal to force teachers to take part. The child has no choice, of course, though their parents can withdraw them and make them look like pariahs, so they rarely do. We didn't withdraw ours. I think that this is a good example of a bad law. Many free-thinking head teachers circumvent the requirement quite skilfully, managing the ritual with little or no bowing of heads or joining of hands whilst satisfying the needs of any gullible Ofsted inspector or evangelical school governor who happens along. I spent several years in conflict with an ardent Christian senior mistress at my last school, as I refused to take my class to the hall for religious assembly. I sent them instead and they behaved perfectly. She tried to get me to come into the hall for the announcements and duck out from the prayers section. I regarded that as an unreasonable request as it would have made me look foolish, and in any case it was impossible to predict when the chanting was about to begin. In the end, after many an argument, she dropped the thing. What a bloody waste of energy it all was. My inquisitive class wanted to know what I was up to, and, being an honest man who likes to deal in clarity, I told them that I was simply thinking for myself, and suggested that we could talk about that. I doubt that I converted any of them!