Barbarians

[NickFitz]

can I just ask why you assume I'm a sockie

Because you make it so obvious?

[MaryPoppins]

You're not the only girl to say that thanks

...and back to normality

[sasguru]

What's the matter, didn't mummy wipe your botty properly this morning?

Oooh 'ark at him!
Being savaged by a dead, blow-torched, sheep would be be lot more stimulating than your pathetic ripostes.

[Churchill]

Yes and they're wrong.
HTH

In your opinion.

[Moscow Mule]

So, taking this to another level, you think that certain sects circumcising their daughters is ok? No, of course not because it's not legal and quite rightly so. Ritual slaughter (without stunning) WAS not legal - the law was modified in the name of religious freedom. Wrong. What other modifications to the law do you think could be made in the name of religious freedom?? Certain tenets of Shariah law perhaps?

Got a reference for that?

[Gibbon]

...and back to normality

I can only keep it for short periods, the illusion that is

[sasguru]

In your opinion.

How very postmodernist.
Some opinions are better than others, whatever you've been taught.

[gricerboy]

Got a reference for that?

Actually, it IS illegal - the only exceptions being for halal and kosher.

I'd just like to point out in the face of all the abuse I've received that I am a committed vegetarian & I am profoundly upset by what I was alluding to in my OP. I have a real problem with this animal abuse and I get sleepless nights sometimes just thinking about it.

[Churchill]

How very postmodernist.
Some opinions are better than others, whatever you've been taught.

A lot of people get a lot of comfort from their faith. Who are you or I to deny them that comfort?

[Moscow Mule]

Actually, it IS illegal - the only exceptions being for halal and kosher.

I'd just like to point out in the face of all the abuse I've received that I am a committed vegetarian & I am profoundly upset by what I was alluding to in my OP. I have a real problem with this animal abuse and I get sleepless nights sometimes just thinking about it.

Jesus Holy Christ on a bike, get over yourself.