The background to this in Britain is that the government is trying to hive off some of the public sector functions to what it calls the third sector i.e. charities along with the staff. They see it as a more politically acceptable form of privatisation.

Some of those charities have religious ties which have homophobic views and workers in the public sector who are used to a comparatively progressive attitude to gay lesbian and transgender people have an understandable fear of suddenly finding themselves employed by people who think they are the spawn of satan.

The legislation is an attempt to allay those fears/soften up the opposition, take your choice, but Papa Razzi has put his foot in it again with another ill timed and ill judged contribution.