More good news for lovers of freedom as Harriet Harman decides not to overturn last month’s Lord’s vote that saved religious organisations from being forced to abandon their values and hire homosexuals for key positions.

Ministers were astonished on Monday when the Pope said that the Bill violated “natural justice” and urged bishops to fight it. But that attack, along with the strength of opposition in the Lords and the limited time left to get Bills passed before the election, has sapped the Government’s enthusiasm to continue the fight.

Who knows, maybe with the election just around the corner, some bright spark in the government has realised that there are many more Catholics than homosexuals. I’m sure that ‘natural justice’ didn’t figure at all in the decision.

In her blind allegiance to ‘equality’, Harriet Harman, Hater of Harmony, obviously couldn’t see that a homosexual preaching about the importance of sexual morality would be rather irrational. But her government thrives on the irrational, especially when it comes to ‘equality’.

Why should people who choose to behave in a certain way receive so much attention anyway? We don’t get adulterers demanding to get a job in a church. Should I, who disagrees with New Labour’s philosophy, insist on getting a job with one of their MPs? Would I be accepted for a job with Stonewall? Not after they had Googled my name, that’s for sure.

I would be discriminated against for my beliefs in many places and rightly so because I don’t conform to their ethos.

I cannot see that churches are singled out for ’special’ treatment other than the fact that they are churches and this government has proven how much it hates Christianity.

Because the Pope has expressed an opinion, and he’s not supposed to because he is the head of a church and is expected to keep schtum, the National Secular Society is upset and is planning demonstrations during his visit to the UK in the Autumn.

Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, said: “The taxpayer in this country is going to be faced with a bill of some £20 million for the visit of the Pope. A visit in which he has already indicated he will attack equal rights and promote discrimination.”

Their version of events is that he will attack equal rights. But he is trying to preserve his church’s freedom to employ people who share its beliefs. What business is this of the NSS, other than an excuse to attack religion, which seems to be their raison d’être?

The truth is that ‘equality’ which suits secularists is an impossibility because it forces people to accept things that they vehemently oppose. The government knows this and is using the resulting chaos to create tensions in society so they can ruin all our lives while we fight among ourselves.