Religious Discrimination and the Hierarchy of Rights

What is it about?

In theory, there is no hierarchy of rights in the Equality Act 2010: equal weight is given to each protected characteristic. Two, very different, critiques though have been made of this argument as it relates to religion or belief. One argument is that religious discrimination has unfairly been given a lower priority than other characteristics, particularly sexual orientation. The second is that religion is inherently different, but has been treated similarly, thus adversely affecting other rights. As will be demonstrated though, both of these arguments are misconceived.

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