Ah! Always remember to put your name in the box Willie... My bad, sorry Joe.

I don't reckon my reference to Nazi Youth membership was a cheap shot really. (Although I am aware that on internet chats, invoking any Hitler comparison is normally a sign of losing an argument! Could be a sign, who knows.....)

There were many people who chose not to do as they were told and perhaps suffered as a result. if this guy had the courage of his conviction then he made a strange decision. Me? I don't have any courage whatsoever, so would have gone with the flow even though I didn't believe in it. A bit like being dragged to a church for a wedding or funeral. I go because I don't have the courage to say to pious friends and relatives that I find their acceptance of fantasy and myth rather disturbing as they are (in the main) otherwise rather rational.

Like I said above somewhere, I have no issue with people believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden or non chemical / biological reasons why somebody gravely ill makes a recovery. But, please keep it in your club or society. if you keep trying to influence society using your creed as a must do for everybody else, don't be surprised or offended if the rest of us have a laugh at your reasoning, or resent any success you have.

I reckon Harriot Harman's new bill is a silly one and was at the very least not necessary as existing laws preclude prejudice. If that wasn't bad enough, she appears to have given religions a status above other laws by allowing bigoted hatred of peoples' lifestyles choice to be tolerated by Government.

And that needs questioning. it really does.    Sadly, it galvanises people against religion rather than live & let live. (Not that such a phrase exists in any interpretation of old scrolls, obviously.)