“With appropriate goodwill on all sides, we are hopeful that a satisfactory solution can be found in this sensitive area.”
Why should there be goodwill on all sides? There is a perfectly good system for dealing with the deceased – they are buried/cremated in the order in which they die. If there is a three week wait (as there is in many parts of London at some points in the year) then everybody waits three weeks. Things have moved on since bodies began to decay after a few hours in the festering *** holes where these religions were founded. Here in the UK we have discovered ways of preserving the dead until their turn for disposal comes. Furthermore, how much “goodwill” is likely to be demonstrated by those whose ridiculous religious foibles demand such preferential treatment?
More than that, this ruling demonstrates the contorted logic that has now infested the legal profession where common sense seems to have been sacrificed on the altar of “diversity”:
“But Lord Justice Singh said the policy was discriminatory and must be quashed.”
My Lord Singh seems to have lost the plot. Ms Hassel’s policy which he condemns did not discriminate in any way. Everybody was treated equally. His proposal could not be more discriminatory if he tried: it discriminates against all those who are not followers of the two religions.
“The judge added: ‘The fundamental difficulty with the defendant's policy is that it does not strike a fair balance between the rights concerned at all.’”
There is a perfectly fair balance in existence with the cab-rank system of disposal. Nobody waits longer than anyone else. The so-called “Equalities Act” has established all sorts of inequalities where religious requirements have become trump cards to establish fresh “rights” which override the rights of non-believers.
Following the ruling, London Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted: 'I welcome this decision by the High Court. It is right and proper the Coroner respects the religious sensitivities of Londoners.’
Well he would wouldn’t he since the principle beneficiaries of this twisted ruling are members of his own religion. It seems the sensitivities of Infidel Londoners can go and take a run because for every Jew or Muslim who is promoted up the queue of cadavers patiently waiting their turn for disposal, the family of a deceased Heretic will have to wait a little longer to lay their loved one to rest.